637 results about "Porous scaffold" patented technology

A composition includes a viscous gel formed from a combination of a biodegradable polymer and a biocompatible solvent. The composition also includes a hydrophilic porogen, which may be incorporated in the viscous gel. The composition may form a porous scaffold in situ.

Hydrogel microparticles with entrapped liquid are used as the porogen to reproducibly form interconnected pore networks in a porous scaffold. In one embodiment, a biodegradable unsaturated polymer, a crosslinking agent, and a porogen comprising biodegradable hydrogel microparticles are mixed together and allowed to form a porous scaffold in an mold or in a body cavity. Example biodegradable unsaturated polymers include poly(propylene fumarate) and poly(e-caprolactone-fumarate). The cosslinking agent may be a free radical initiator, or may include a free radical initiator and a monomer capable of addition polymerization. Example hydrogel microparticles include uncrosslinked or crosslinked collagen , an uncrosslinked or crosslinked collagen derivative, and an uncrosslinked or crosslinked synthetic biodegradable polymer such as oligo(poly(ethylene glycol) fumarate).

The invention provides a porous scaffold for tissue engineering which allows easy cell engraftment and cell culture and thus enables stable organization and an artificial blood vessel which exhibits high patency rate even if the inner diameter is small. The scaffold for tissue engineering is made of thermoplastic resin which forms a porous three-dimensional network structure having communication property, wherein the porous three-dimensional network structure has an average pore diameter of from 100 to 650 μm and an apparent density of from 0.01 to 0.5 g/cm³. The artificial blood vessel is composed of this scaffold.

The invention provides a cuff which allows easy infiltration of cells from living subcutaneous tissues, easy engraftment of cells, and neovascularization of capillary vessels so as to obtain robust bonding with subcutaneous tissues and, as a result, ensures separation of a wounded portion from the outside, thereby blocking exacerbation factors such as bacterial infection on healing and inhibiting progression of downgrowth. That is, the invention provides a cuff with none or little infection trouble such as tunnel infection. The cuff comprises a porous three-dimensional network structure which is made of thermoplastic resin or thermosetting resin and has communication property, wherein the porous three-dimensional network structure has an average pore diameter of from 100 to 1000 μm and apparent density of from 0.01 to 0.5 g/cm³.

The invention provides a biological implant covering member which allows easy infiltration of cells from living subcutaneous tissues, easy engraftment of cells, and organization, thereby obtaining robust bonding with native tissues and therefore protecting a living body from adverse effect which may occur due to the insertion of a biological implantation member into the living body. The biological implant covering member comprises a porous three-dimensional network structure which is made of thermoplastic resin or thermosetting resin and has communication property, wherein the porous three-dimensional network structure has an average pore diameter of from 100 to 1000 μm and apparent density of from 0.01 to 0.5 g/cm³.

A method for repairing a defect in cartilage, comprising the provision of apertures in the cartilage by drilling holes at the base of the cartilage defect, which holes may enter the mesenchymal depot, introducing a porous scaffold material containing a plurality of magnetic particles into the apertures, and subsequently and sequentially injecting magnetically-tagged cartilage growth promoting materials such as various growth factors or chondrocytes into the area of the defect. The magnetically tagged growth promoting material is then drawn into the apertures by magnetic attraction of the magnetic particles contained in the porous scaffold material, either by virtue of the particles being permanently magnetic, or by the imposition of an external magnetic field. The present application claims the biodegradable porous scaffold material containing the plurality of magnetic particles.

The methods and compositions described herein relate to novel 3-dimensional porous scaffolds useful for tissue re-generation, enhancement, or tissue repair. Electrospinning or other methods are used to create mats comprised of fibers that can be seeded with cells and subsequently rolled into a desired shape/form to replace a desired tissue.

There is described a biocompatible implant for the filling of a cavity in a living organism if such as, for example, a bone defect or an extraction wound, comprising an open porous scaffold and/or a composite matrix comprising a plurality of inorganic or synthetic granules and a synthetic polymer matrix, and further comprising a biodegradable membrane which is interconnectibly sealed to a surface portion of the scaffold or composite matrix such, that the scaffold or composite matrix and the membrane form a single piece of matter. In one embodiment, the implant is biodegradable.

A stem-cell-seeded porous scaffold implant and methods for treating a breast tissue defect in a patient.

The invention relates to a bone repair porous bracket, which comprises a substrate with a bionic porous structure and growth factor controlled-release microspheres, wherein the growth factor controlled-release microspheres are adsorbed into gaps of the bionic porous structure on the substrate or are dispersed into the substrate by being uniformly mixed with substrate raw material in a substrate forming process. The invention further provides a rapid forming method for the bone repair porous bracket. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing growth factor controlled-release microspheres; forming a substrate; and adsorbing. The invention further provides another rapid forming method for the bone repairing porous bracket. The method comprises a step for preparing growth factor controlled-release microspheres and a step for forming a substrate. The growth factor controlled-release microspheres are introduced into the bracket, bone growth can be induced under the action of the controlled release of growth factors, and inward bone tissue growth is facilitated through a porous structure formed by degradation of the controlled-release microspheres, so that bone tissue regeneration repair is achieved, and bone healing is facilitated effectively. Three-dimensional printing is performed by adding controlled-release microspheres and adopting a rapid forming technology, and a forming process is simple and rapid.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological materials and tissue repair and particularly relates to a multi-layer porous scaffold and a preparation method thereof. A suitable porous material is selected, after being clipped according to set size and requirements, the material is bonded by pore-forming adhesive which contains mixture of components of polymer/pore-forming particles/solvent, and pore-forming agent is removed after solidification and bonding, thus preparing the porous scaffold which has multi-layer structures communicated with each other. The scaffold has multi-layer structures, porous transition layers are among the layers of the scaffold, and the pores in an upper layer and a lower layer of the scaffold are communicated with each other; and the scaffold is suitable for transition of different cells and fusion of tissues in a process of tissue remodeling, and weakened separation between layers of the remolding tissue is avoided. The scaffold is suitable for a bionic three-dimensional cell scaffold which repairs a multi-layer tissue and other application fields.

The invention discloses a making method of composite tissue engineering rack of original poring self-solidifying calcium phosphate, which comprises the following steps: placing porous rack of calcium phosphate cement into drier to dry; immersing porous rack into macromolecular solution; extracting into vacuum for 0.5-6h; injecting macromolecular material into the pore of porous rack of calcium phosphate cement; drying the surface of porous rack through filter paper; pre-freezing under -60- -4 deg.c for 1-48h; drying the frozen material to do multiple injections until the pore is filled with cement; obtaining the product.

A porous scaffold is disclosed, the porous scaffold comprising electrospun polymeric nanofibers, wherein an average diameter of a pore of the porous scaffold is about 300 μm is disclosed. An average diameter of the polymeric nanofibers ranges from about 100 to 400 nm. The scaffold may comprise a plurality of particles, the particles being greater than about 1 μm in diameter. Methods of fabricating scaffolds, methods for generating tissue and methods of using scaffolds for tissue reconstruction are also disclosed.

The invention relates to implantable medical devices, particularly, to porous structures for such devices. In one aspect, the invention provides a porous metal scaffold comprising a porous metal network having pores defined by metal webs, the metal webs covered with at least one layer of metal particles bonded to the metal webs. In other aspects, the invention provides methods of forming porous scaffolds. In one such aspect, the method includes providing a polymer foam; forming a skin of biocompatible metal on the polymer foam by low temperature arc vapor deposition; and heating the polymer foam and the metal skin above the decomposition temperature of the polymer foam in an inert gas atmosphere; thereby the polymer foam decomposes producing a green metal foam. In yet other aspects, the invention provides methods of improving stability of porous scaffolds.

According to the present invention, there are provided processes for preparing a porous composite material comprising a metal and a two-dimensional nanomaterial. In one aspect, the processes comprise the steps of: providing a powder comprising metal particles; heating the powder such that the metal particles fuse to form a porous scaffold; and forming a two-dimensional nanomaterial on a surface of the porous scaffold by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Also provided are materials obtainable by the present processes, and products comprising said materials.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional porous cartilage extracellular matrix sponge scaffold made of natural cartilage, which can compound cells further to construct tissue engineered cartilage, and can be used for clinically repairing cartilage defects. In the invention, conditions which can fully perform cell extraction and form a porous scaffold matrix are provided by processing cartilage into cartilage microfilaments, and then the cell extraction and solidification and/or strengthening treatment are performed to obtain the three-dimensional porous cartilage extracellular matrix sponge scaffold which is completely decellurized. The antigenicity and cell components are removed in the natural cartilage, and an extracellular matrix component of the cartilage is retained to obtain the scaffold with appropriate pore diameter and porosity, suitable degradation rate, good biocompatibility and certain biomechanical strength. The scaffold has the advantages of broad material sources, low cost, simple and feasible preparation technology, and good repetitiveness; and the scaffold can be widely applied in the field of tissue engineering and has good clinical application prospect.

The present invention provides a three-dimensional tissue equivalent for in-vivo and in-vitro uses. The three dimensional tissue equivalent of the present invention is a non-contractile cellular sheet cultured over a porous scaffold using a macromass culturing technique, for example where the cellular sheet is entirely on one side of a porous sponge. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a dermal wound dressing that comprises a high density cellular sheet of dermal fibroblast cells.

Disclosed is a scaffold including a semi-permeable membrane on an outer surface thereof. The present invention also discloses a method of preparing a scaffold covered with a semi-permeable membrane, including loading one or more scaffolds into a mold with a predetermined form and size; and adding a semi-permeable agent and a cross-linking agent to the mold and cross-linking the semi-permeable agent to form the semi-permeable membrane on the outer surface of each of the scaffolds. The scaffold covered with the semi-permeable membrane selectively introduces nutrients into the scaffold by allowing penetration of only external nutrients into the scaffold and excreting metabolic wastes generated by tissue cells to the outside of the scaffold. In addition, the scaffold has the morphology of a biological tissue of interest by cross-linking the small-sized scaffolds, thereby allowing uniform proliferation of tissue cells throughout the whole scaffold.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a nanofiber porous scaffold having compression elasticity in a wet state. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving gelatin and polylactic acid in a solvent so as to obtain a mixed solution, and carrying out electrostatic spinning so as to obtain a nanofiber membrane; feeding the nanofiber membrane into tertiary butanol, smashing, freezing and freeze-drying so as to obtain a non-crosslinked freeze-dried scaffold; immersing the non-crosslinked freeze-dried scaffold into cross-linking liquid, washing, soaking in deionized water, freezing and freeze-drying so as to obtain the nanofiber porous scaffold. The nanofiber porous scaffold prepared through the preparation method has degradability, biocompatibility and relatively high porosity, and has a certain compression resistance at the wet state, can quickly stop bleeding, is beneficial to cell adhesion, cell proliferation and tissue regeneration, and can be applicable to hemostatic materials, cartilage tissue engineering, skin tissue engineering and other fields.