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Use of Human Perivascular Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration
Published on: May 25, 2012
Mandibular segmental defect regenerated with macroporous biphasic calcium phosphate, collagen membrane, and bone
Franck Jégoux1, Eric Goyenvalle, Ronan Cognet
1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U791, Nantes, France. franck.jegoux@chu-rennes.fr
Objective:
To reconstruct segmental mandibulectomy using calcium phosphate ceramics and collagen membrane with a delayed bone marrow grafting in experimental animals.
Design:
Defects of segmental mandibulectomy were filled with calcium phosphate granules and wrapped with a collagen membrane in 4 dogs and left empty as a control in 2 dogs. Two months later, a bone marrow graft was injected into the center of the implants. Animals were humanely killed after a 16-week delay.
Subjects:
Six adult beagles were included in this study.
Intervention:
Segmental mandibulectomy.
Main Outcome Measure:
Bone ingrowth and material resorption in the reconstructed segment.
Results:
Successful osseous colonization bridged the whole length of the defects. The good new bone formation at the center and the periosteum-like formation at the periphery suggest the osteoinductive role of the bone marrow graft and the healing scaffold role of the membrane.
Conclusions:
This model succeeded in regenerating a large segmental defect in the mandible. An investigation with a postimplantation radiation delivery schedule is required with the use of this model, which should be considered as a preclinical study for a bone tissue engineering approach in patients with cancer-related bone defects.
