Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0001pp90 | Bone development/growth and fracture repair | ECTS2013

The choice of fetal bovine serum influences the degree of spontaneous mineralization on silk fibroin scaffolds in 3D cell cultures

Paulsen Samantha , Vetsch Jolanda , Muller Ralph , Hofmann Sandra

Silk fibroin (SF) sponges are a promising scaffold material for tissue engineering due to their biocompatibility, mechanical properties, and ability to support calcium-phosphate formation in vitro. However, previous studies have shown that SF can mineralize spontaneously in the presence of culture media, which has a detrimental effect on experimental integrity when analyzing how cells deposit bone-like tissue in tissue engineering studies. In this study we analyzed th...