Bodhak, Subhadip and de Castro, Luis F and Kuznetsov, Sergei A and Azusa, Maeda and Bonfim, Danielle and Robey, Pamela G and Simon, Carl G (2018) Combinatorial cassettes to systematically evaluate tissue-engineered constructs in recipient mice. Biomaterials, 186. pp. 31-43. ISSN 0142-9612

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Abstract

Ectopic bone formation in mice is the gold standard for evaluation of osteogenic constructs. By regular procedures, usually only 4 constructs can be accommodated per mouse, limiting screening power. Combinatorial cassettes (combi-cassettes) hold up to 19 small, uniform constructs from the time of surgery, through time in vivo, and subsequent evaluation. Two types of bone tissue engineering constructs were tested in the combi-cassettes: i) a cell-scaffold construct containing primary human bone marrow stromal cells with hydroxyapatite/tricalcium phosphate particles (hBMSCs + HA/TCP) and ii) a growth factor-scaffold construct containing bone morphogenetic protein 2 in a gelatin sponge (BMP2 + GS). Measurements of bone formation by histology, bone formation by X-ray microcomputed tomography (mu CT) and gene expression by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) showed that constructs in combi-cassettes were similar to those created by regular procedures. Combi-cassettes afford placement of multiple replicates of multiple formulations into the same animal, which enables, for the first time, rigorous statistical assessment of: 1) the variability for a given formulation within an animal (intra-animal variability), 2) differences between different tissue-engineered formulations within the same animal and 3) the variability for a given formulation in different animals (inter-animal variability). Combi-cassettes enable a more high-throughput, systematic approach to in vivo studies of tissue engineering constructs.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Engineering Materials
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2019 08:24
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2019 08:24
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4452

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