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. 2025 Jan;113(1):e37827.
doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.37827. Epub 2024 Oct 29.

Compositional Variations in Calcium Phosphate Cement and Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic-Acid) Porogens Do Not Affect the Orthotopic Performance of Calcium Phosphate Cement/Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic-Acid) Cements

Eline-Claire Grosfeld  1 , Natasja W M van Dijk  1 , Dietmar J O Ulrich  2 , Antonios G Mikos  3   4 , John A Jansen  1 , Jeroen J J P van den Beucken  1
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Compositional Variations in Calcium Phosphate Cement and Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic-Acid) Porogens Do Not Affect the Orthotopic Performance of Calcium Phosphate Cement/Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic-Acid) Cements

Eline-Claire Grosfeld et al. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2025 Jan.

Abstract

Calcium phosphate cement (CPC) has evolved as an appealing bone substitute material, especially since CPCs were combined with poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) porogens to render the resulting CPC/PLGA composite degradable. In view of the multiple variables of CPC and PLGA used previously, the effect of CPC composition and PLGA porogen morphology (i.e., microspheres versus microparticles) on the biological performance of CPC/PLGA has not yet been investigated. Consequently, we here aimed to evaluate comparatively various CPC/PLGA formulations varying in CPC composition and PLGA porogen morphology on their performance in a rabbit femoral condyle bone defect model. CPCs with a composition of 85 wt% α-TCP, 15 wt% dicalcium phosphate anhydrate (DCPA) and 5 wt% precipitated hydroxyapatite (pHA), or 100 wt% α-TCP were combined with spherical or irregularly shaped PLGA porogens (CPC/PLGA ratio of 60:40 wt% for all formulations). All CPC/PLGA formulations were applied via injection in bone defects, as created in the femoral condyle of rabbits, and retrieved for histological evaluation after 6 and 12 weeks of implantation. Descriptive histology and quantitative histomorphometry (i.e., material degradation and new bone formation) were used for analyses. Descriptively, all CPC/PLGA formulations showed material degradation at the periphery of the cement within 6 weeks of implantation. After 12 weeks, bone formation was observed extending into the defect core, replacing the degraded CPC/PLGA material. Quantitatively, similar material degradation (up to 87%) and new bone formation (up to 28%) values were observed, irrespective of compositional variations of CPC/PLGA formulations. These data prove that neither the CPC compositions nor the PLGA porogen morphologies as used in this work affect the biological performance of CPC/PLGA formulations in a rabbit femoral condyle bone defect model.

Keywords: bone regeneration; calcium phosphate cement; material degradation; orthotopic performance; poly(lactic‐co‐glycolic‐acid).

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