Programmed surface platform orchestrates anti-bacterial ability and time-sequential bone healing for implant-associated infection.
Biomaterials
; 313: 122772, 2025 Feb.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-39190942
ABSTRACT
Implant-associated infection (IAI) has become an intractable challenge in clinic. The healing of IAI is a complex physiological process involving a series of spatiotemporal connected events. However, existing titanium-based implants in clinic suffer from poor antibacterial effect and single function. Herein, a versatile surface platform based on the presentation of sequential function is developed. Fabrication of titania nanotubes and poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) achieves the efficient incorporation of silver ions (Ag+) and the pH-sensitive release in response to acidic bone infection microenvironment. The optimized PGA/Ag platform exhibits satisfactory biocompatibility and converts macrophages from pro-inflammatory M1 to pro-healing M2 phenotype during the subsequent healing stage, which creates a beneficial osteoimmune microenvironment and promotes angio/osteogenesis. Furthermore, the PGA/Ag platform mediates osteoblast/osteoclast coupling through inhibiting CCL3/CCR1 signaling. These biological effects synergistically improve osseointegration under bacterial infection in vivo, matching the healing process of IAI. Overall, the novel integrated PGA/Ag surface platform proposed in this study fulfills function cascades under pathological state and shows great potential in IAI therapy.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Polyglutamic Acid
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Silver
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Titanium
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Biomaterials
Year:
2025
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Netherlands