In Vitro and In Vivo Degradation of Photo-Crosslinked Poly(Trimethylene Carbonate-co-ε-Caprolactone) Networks
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2024-03
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Macromolecular Bioscience, Volume 24, issue 3
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Three-armed poly(trimethylene carbonate) (PTMC) and poly(trimethylene carbonate-co-Ɛ-caprolactone) (P(TMC-co-ε-CL)) macromers with molecular weights of approximately 30 kg mol−1 are synthesized by ring-opening polymerization and subsequent functionalization with methacrylic anhydride. Networks are then prepared by photo-crosslinking. To investigate the in vitro and in vivo degradation properties of these photo-crosslinked networks and assess the effect of ε-caprolactone content on the degradation properties, PTMC networks, and copolymer networks with two different TMC:ε-CL ratios are prepared. PTMC networks degraded slowly, via an enzymatic surface erosion process, both in vitro and in vivo. Networks prepared from P(TMC-co-ε-CL) macromers with a 74:26 ratio are found to degrade slowly as well, via a surface erosion process, albeit at a higher rate compared to PTMC networks. Increasing the ε-CL content to a ratio of 52:48, resulted in a faster degradation. These networks lost their mechanical properties much sooner than the other networks. Thus, PTMC and P(TMC-co-ε-CL) networks are interesting networks for tissue engineering purposes and the exact degradation properties can be tuned by varying the TMC:ε-CL ratio, providing researchers with a tool to obtain copolymer networks with the desired degradation rate depending on the intended application.Description
Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Prof. Dr. Pieter Buma for fruitful discussions about this project and Dr. Mike Geven for his help with the in vitro degradation experiments. Figure 5 images were generated using Pannoramic 250 FLASH II digital slide scanner (3DHISTECH, Budapest, Hungary) at Genome Biology Unit supported by HiLIFE and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, and Biocenter Finland. This work was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under Stichting voor de Technische Wetenschappen project number 12 410. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Macromolecular Bioscience published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
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degradation, networks, photo-crosslinking, poly(trimethylene carbonate), surface erosion
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van Bochove, B, Rongen, J J, Hannink, G, Seppälä, J V, Poot, A A & Grijpma, D W 2024, ' In Vitro and In Vivo Degradation of Photo-Crosslinked Poly(Trimethylene Carbonate-co-ε-Caprolactone) Networks ', Macromolecular Bioscience, vol. 24, no. 3, 2300364 . https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.202300364