Bone regeneration by tuning the drug release from the calcium phosphate scaffolds
Abstract
Bone is among the most transplanted tissues for regeneration of bone defects, caused by trauma, age-related bone loss or bone infections. Due to their similar characteristics to the mineral phase of bone, calcium phosphates (CaPs) have raised a lot of interest. Some properties of CaPs, like biodegradability, biocompatibility, bioactivity and osteoconduction represent a great potential for this application. Among them, calcium phosphate cements (CPCs) have additional advantages like injectability and in situ hardening ability. Moreover, the possibility to tune the porosity of CaPs in general and of CPCs in particular, makes them suitable vehicles for local delivery of drugs. Loading CaPs with drugs allows conferring additional functionalities to the synthetic bone grafts, which is of great interest. The main aim of this thesis is to explore CaP bioceramics as vehicles for local delivery of drugs, covering both low temperature biomimetic ceramics, like calcium deficient hydroxyapatite (CDHA), and high temperature sintered ceramics, like beta tricalcium phosphate (ß-TCP), in the form of microporous and macroporous substrates. The physic-chemical nature of these bioceramics, their porosity and textural properties plays an essential role in their drug delivery properties. In order to be able to tailor the drug release kinetics of the bioceramics beyond their intrinsic properties, plasma polymerization has been investigated. Plasma is a particular state of a gas, electrically…
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