SILK/HYDROXYAPATITE HYBRID NANOFIBER SCAFFOLD FOR BONE REGENERATION

• Main Authors: KIM, HYUN JUNG, YEO, JOO HONG, KWEON, HAE YONG, LEE, MIN JUNG, PARK, YOUNG HWAN, KI, CHANG SEOK, JO, YOU YOUNG, LEE, KWANG GILL, KANG, SEOK WOO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 20.04.2011
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

PURPOSE: A silk/hydroxyapatite complex nanofiber supporter for osteanagenesis is provided to promote a cell growth promotion effect and to remove cytotoxin. CONSTITUTION: A silk/hydroxyapatite complex nanofiber supporter for osteanagenesis constituted as follows. In the nanofiber supporter, hydroxyapatite is coated on the surface thereof and silk nanofiber having the diameter of tens or hundreds nanometers is three-dimensionally arranged. The silk nanofiber maintains the form of a strand of fiber without conglomeration or entanglement thereof.