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Influence of Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles and Surface Plasma Treatment on Bioactivity of Polycaprolactone Nanofibers

Authors

ŠŤASTNÁ Eva ČÁSTKOVÁ Klára RÁHEĽ Jozef

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Polymers
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12091877
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12091877
Keywords electrospinning; nanofibers; polycaprolactone; hydroxyapatite; tissue engineering; atmospheric pressure argon plasma
Description Nanofibers are well known as a beneficial type of structure for tissue engineering. As a result of the high acquisition cost of the natural polymers and their environmentally problematic treatment (toxic dissolution agents), artificial polymers seem to be the better choice for medical use. In the present study, polycaprolactone nano-sized fibrous structures were prepared by the electrospinning method. The impact of material morphology (random or parallelly oriented fibers versus continuous layer) and the presence of a fraction of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles on cell proliferation was tested. In addition, the effect of improving the material wettability by a low temperature argon discharge plasma treatment was evaluated, too. We have shown that both hydroxyapatite particles as well as plasma surface treatment are beneficial for the cell proliferation. The significant impact of both influences was evident during the first 48 h of the test: the hydroxyapatite particles in polycaprolactone fibers accelerated the proliferation by 10% compared to the control, and the plasma-treated ones enhanced proliferation by 30%.

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