In vitro evaluation of novel Zeolite-hydroxyapatite blended scaffold for dental tissue engineering
Abstract Main purpose of tissue engineering is creating appropriate conditions for the regeneration of tissues. Dental pulp-derived stem cells due to differentiation capacity and angiogenic properties have potential to regenerate dental pulp tissue. In the current experimental study poly caprolactone and poly L-lactic acid were synthesized by ring-opening polymerization method. The nano-hydroxyapatite and Zeolite were obtained by hydrothermal method. Morphological features and crystals properties of nHA and Zeolite were studied by X-ray diffraction. Nanofibers were fabricated using electrospinning method and investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy. DPSCs obtained from human source and proliferation and viability of them on electrospun scaffolds were evaluated by MTT assay. Also, the adhesion and proliferation of hDPSCs were investigated by SEM. The results showed that hDPSCs have the most viability and proliferation on the 1 st , 7 th , 14 th days on PCL-PLA/Zeolite scaffolds and maximum on the 3 rd day on PCL-PLA/nHA scaffolds. On the days of 7 th and 14 th , cell growth on scaffolds containing both nHA and Zeolite is better than sample that nHA is used alone with PCL-PLA. Briefly, by these results can be understand that Zeolite is a good agent in bone and tooth tissue engineering applications. More studies requires to investigate Zeolite effect on scaffold properties.