Polymers 2011, 3(1), 100-113; doi:10.3390/polym3010100
Review

Chitosan-Based Hyaluronic Acid Hybrid Polymer Fibers as a Scaffold Biomaterial for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

Norimasa Iwasaki 1,* email, Yasuhiko Kasahara 1 email, Shintarou Yamane 1 email, Tatsuya Igarashi 1 email, Akio Minami 1 email and Shin-ichiro Nisimura 2 email
1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan 2 Graduate School of Advanced Life Science, Frontier Research Center for Post-Genomic Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 13 October 2010; in revised form: 24 November 2010 / Accepted: 24 December 2010 / Published: 27 December 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biofunctional Polymers for Medical Applications)
PDF Full-text Download PDF Full-Text [807 KB, uploaded 27 December 2010 16:13 CET]
Abstract: An ideal scaffold material is one that closely mimics the natural environment in the tissue-specific extracellular matrix (ECM). Therefore, we have applied hyaluronic acid (HA), which is a main component of the cartilage ECM, to chitosan as a fundamental material for cartilage regeneration. To mimic the structural environment of cartilage ECM, the fundamental structure of a scaffold should be a three-dimensional (3D) system with adequate mechanical strength. We structurally developed novel polymer chitosan-based HA hybrid fibers as a biomaterial to easily fabricate 3D scaffolds. This review presents the potential of a 3D fabricated scaffold based on these novel hybrid polymer fibers for cartilage tissue engineering.
Keywords: chitosan; hyaluronic acid; hybrid polymer fiber; cartilage tissue engineering; scaffold

Article Statistics

Click here to load and display the download statistics.

Cite This Article

MDPI and ACS Style

Iwasaki, N.; Kasahara, Y.; Yamane, S.; Igarashi, T.; Minami, A.; Nisimura, S.-I. Chitosan-Based Hyaluronic Acid Hybrid Polymer Fibers as a Scaffold Biomaterial for Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Polymers 2011, 3, 100-113.

AMA Style

Iwasaki N, Kasahara Y, Yamane S, Igarashi T, Minami A, Nisimura S-I. Chitosan-Based Hyaluronic Acid Hybrid Polymer Fibers as a Scaffold Biomaterial for Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Polymers. 2011; 3(1):100-113.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Iwasaki, Norimasa; Kasahara, Yasuhiko; Yamane, Shintarou; Igarashi, Tatsuya; Minami, Akio; Nisimura, Shin-ichiro. 2011. "Chitosan-Based Hyaluronic Acid Hybrid Polymer Fibers as a Scaffold Biomaterial for Cartilage Tissue Engineering." Polymers 3, no. 1: 100-113.

Polymers EISSN 2073-4360 Published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland RSS E-Mail Table of Contents Alert