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Hierarchical Microspheres Constructed from Chitin Nanofibers Penetrated Hydroxyapatite Crystals for Bone Regeneration Bo Duan, Kangquan Shou, Xiaojuan Su, Yahui Niu, Guan Zheng, Yao Huang, Ai-xi Yu, Yu Zhang, Hong Xia, and Lina Zhang Biomacromolecules, Just Accepted Manuscript • Publication Date (Web): 15 Jun 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 16, 2017
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HierarchicalMicrospheres ConstructedfromChitin
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Nanofibers Penetrated Hydroxyapatite Crystals for Bone
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Regeneration
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Bo Duana, Kangquan Shoub, Xiaojuan Sua, Yahui Niub, Guan Zhengc, Yao Huanga,
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Aixi Yub, Yu Zhangc, Hong Xiac, Lina Zhanga
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College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072,
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China b
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Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Area Command of Chinese PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China
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Abstract
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Chitin exists abundantly in the crab and shrimp shell as the template of the
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minerals, which inspired us to mineralize it for fabricating the bone grafting materials.
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In present work, chitin nanofibrous microspheres were used as the matrix for in situ
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synthesisof the hydroxyapatite (HA) crystals including micro-flake, submicron-needle
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and submicron-osphere, which were penetrated by long chitin nanofibers, leading to
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the hierarchical structure. The shape and size of the HA crystals could be controled by
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changing the HA synthesisprocess. The tight interface adhesionbetween chitin and
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HAthrough the non covanlent bonds occurred in the composite microspheres, and
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HAswere homogeneously dispersed and bounded to the chitin nanofibers.In our
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findings, the inherent biocompatibilities of the both chitin and HA contributed
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bone cell adhesion and osteoconduction. Moreovere, the chitin microsphere with
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submicron-needle and submicron-sphere HA crystals remarkably promoted in vitro
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cell adhesion and in vivo bone healing. It was demonstrated that the rabbit with 1.5
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cm radius defect were almost cured completely within three months at a growth factor
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and cell free state, as a result of the uniquesurface microstructure. The microsphere
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scaffold displayed the excellent biofunctions and an appropriate biodegradability.
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This work opened up a new avenue to construct the natural polymer based
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organic-inorganic hybrid microspheres for the bone regeneration.
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Keywords: Microsphere scaffold, Chitin nanofibers, Penetratedhydroxyapatite
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The repair of critical size bone defects which occur after trauma, infection, or
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tumor resections is a clinical challenge due to the apparent inability of bone to
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regenerate themselves.1-6 The bone tissue engineering scaffolds mimicking the native
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bone extracellular matrix (ECM) have recently emerged as a promising class of
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materials for bone repair.7-8 As natural bone is mainly composed of collagen
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nanofibers and hydroxyapatite (HA) nanocrystals, the ECM-mimicking nanofibrous
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composition of biocompatible polymer and HA have been extensively demonstrated
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to be a successful alternative for bone tissue regeneration.9 The broadly used strategy
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for fabricating the polymer-ceramic composition is to process the nanocrystal
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dispersed polymer-containing solution with electrospinning,10 phase separation11-12
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and self-assembly13 methods into the required ECM-mimicking collagen nanofibrous
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structure. However, the polymer matrix would obstruct the direct contact between
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cells and HA, which might cripple the desired biofunctions such as high
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osteoconduction.14-15 In sharp contrast with the “embedded” method, the in-situ HA
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mineralization approach on the polymer substrate appears as an available pathway to
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directly introduce the osteoconduction biofunction to the scaffold materials, and
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expand further the scope of the resulting materials for targeting applications in bone
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scaffolding. However, the in-situ HA mineralization within an extracellular is known
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to be a very complex process, and the crystal might not nucleate on the synthetic
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nanofibrous surface completely, as a result hindering the biofunctions of the
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nanofibrous matrix (promote cell adhesion). In the natural bone hierarchical
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nanostructure, the noncollagenous proteins (NCPs) plays important role on mediating
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the homogeneous nucleation of hydroxyapatite crystals within the collagen matrix due
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to their high affinity to calcium cations.16 To mimic the natural biomineralization
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process, the organic molecules including polyacrylic acid,8 adenosine 5-triphosphate
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(ATP),17etc have been used as the alternative of NCPs for adjusting the compatibility
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between the dissimilar organic and inorganic phases in the hybrids. Notably, in the
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natural shells of marine animals, both the nanofibrous chitin and protein are thought
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to play key roles in providing organic interfaces as templates for the hierarchical
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mineralized architecture formation,
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living organisms possesses excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability and
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nontoxicity.21-27It is worth noting that chitin has been extensively investigated as
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anadsorbent for metal extraction due to the chelation properties of the large amount
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ofacetyl amino groups to the metal ions.28-30 This indicates that the chitin matrix is an
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excellent support candidate, and has appropriate interface for stabilizingHA
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crystals.Meanwhile, the amphilic chitin could effectively avoid the excessive growth
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of the hydrophilic biominerals within the chitin ECM. It has been reported that
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the "bottom-up" method, involving assembling building blocks (cell encapsulating
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microscale hydrogels) into larger tissue constructs,31-34 is an effective strategy to
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obtain a scaffolding material. This method could afford sufficient interconnected 3D
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pore (channel among the microspheres) structure for rapid cell migration and easily
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adjust to the irregularly shaped bone defects.33-35Thus, we attempted to utilize the
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chitin nanofibrous microspheres with appropriate stabilization capacity, yet without
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any additives, to construct organic-inorganic hybrid microspheres for bone scaffolding.
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It is not hard to imagine that the hierarchicalmicrospheres constructed from the
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biocompatible chitin and HA would be a perfect candidate as a bone scaffold for in
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situ regrowth and regeneration. Our biomaterial design is based on the three features
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as follows. Firstly, the nanofibersconsisted of the stiff chitin chainswith the contour
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length of several micrometers36can act as the nucleus for the growth of HA crystals
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with different morphology. Secondly, the chitin nanofibers are strong and stable37 and
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HA can be tightly embedded in the chitin matrix. Finally, both chitin and HA have
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excellent biocompatibility and biodegradability,8, 36, 38 so their composite materials
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should be biocompatible and biodegradable.
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Herein, the HA with tunable microstructure morphology was coated on the
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nanofibrous chitin microspheres, coded as NCMH, to obtain a bone scaffolding
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materials.
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matrix(ECM)-mimicking nanofibrous hierarchical architecture with controlled HA
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microstructure coating advantageously enhanced the targeted bone cell-material
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interaction, and multi scale channels/pores in the microspheres could promote cell
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invasion and mass transport conditions. As a result, the NCMH bone scaffolding
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materials induced efficiently the bone regeneration at a cell- and factor-free condition,
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and the homing of the residual cells, specific peptides or growth factors use usually in
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the comparative studies39-40 for the degradable biomaterials to reach a satisfying
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regeneration. Therfore, this work would provide a new avenue to construct
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organic-inorganic hybrid microspheres derived from the natural resource for the bone
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Materials
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Chitin powder was purchased from Golden-Shell Biochemical Co. Ltd.
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(Zhejiang, China). The chitin powder was purified with NaOH, HCl and NaClO2 by a
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procedure described previously and the degree of acetylation of the purified chitin
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was 90 %. The weight-average molecular weight (Mw) was determined to be 53.4 ×
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105 in 5% (w/v) LiCl–DMAc by dynamic light scattering (DLS, ALV/GGS-8F, ALV,
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Germany). All of the chemical reagents were purchased from commercial sources in
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China, and were of analytical-grade.
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Fabrication of nanofibrous chitin microspheres (NCM)
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The nanofibrous chitin microspheres were prepared as previous report method.36
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7 g of purified chitin powder was dispersed into a 93 g mixture of NaOH, urea, and
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distilled water (11:4:85) by weight with stirring to obtain a suspension. Subsequently,
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the suspension was frozen at -30 oC for 4 h, and then thawed at room temperature.
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with chitin concentration of 7 wt%. The chitin solution was degassed by
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centrifugation at 7200 rpm for 15 min at 0oC. A well-mixed suspension containing
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50g of isooctane and 1.1 g of Span 85 were dispersed in a reactor. The resulting
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suspension was stirred at 1000 rpm for 30 min, and then 20 g chitin solution was
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dropped into the suspension within 5 min. The suspension was kept stirring for 1h at
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the same stirring speed at 0oC. A solution containing 0.6 g of Tween 85 in5 g
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isooctane was then added to the emulsion and stirred at the same stirring speed for
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another 1 h to achieve stable water/oil emulsion droplets. Subsequently, a 60 oC water
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bath was added to the emulsion for 5 min for the chitin microspheres regeneration. To
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the resultant suspension, dilute hydrochloric acid (10%) was added until the pH
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reached 7. After removing the isooctane, the regenerated nanofibrous chitin
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microspheres with the diameter of 20-120 m in the substratum were obtained. The
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microspheres were washed with deionized water, and then with ethanol successively
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for three times to remove the residual isooctane, Tween 85 and Span 85. Finally, the
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microspheres were subjected to solvent-exchange with t-BuOH. Chitin microspheres
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containing t-BuOH were frozen by immersing into liquid nitrogen, and subjected to a
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conventional freezer dryer.
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Calcium phosphate mineralization on NCM
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The precipitation of calcium carbonate or calcium phosphate was performed
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using the fresh ammonia aqueous solution (30% w/w, 7 mL) or solid ammonium
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freeze-dried NCM were soaked in precursors aqueous solution (the concentration was
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shown in Table 1)for 12h. Subsequently, the suspension was filtered and the resulted
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swollen NCM was transferred into a bell jar. The ammonia aqueous solution (7 mL)
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or solid ammonium carbonate (5g) was added to a dish and then also placed in the bell
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jar. Addition of different concentrations of CaCl2 was studied (10, 50, and 100 mM).
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CaCl2/NaH2PO4 solution with a calcium-to-phosphate (Ca/P) molar ratio of 1.67,
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consistent with the formation of HA with a formula of Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, the pH was
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then adjusted to 2.0. However, as these variations only affected the amount of
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precipitated materials and not their nature or structure, the concentration of 100mM
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was used. 24h after ammonia or ammonium carbonate introduction, the mineralized
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NCM was washed with deionized water until pH=7. Samples of calcium carbonate
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containing NCM were converted to calcium phosphate by immersion in a 200 mM
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aqueous solution of sodium phosphate (PB) at pH=7 for 24hand then washed with
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deionized water for 3 days. Finally, the samples were subjected to solvent-exchange
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with t-BuOH and frozen by immersing into liquid nitrogen, followed by freeze-dried
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Table 1. Concentrations of salt precursors used in HA synthesis on NCM surface. CaCl2
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Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra of the samples were recorded on a
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Perkin-Elmer FT-IR spectrometer (model 1600, Perkin–Elmer Co. USA). The tested
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samples were prepared by the KBr-disk method. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
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was performed on a FESEM (SEM, SIRION TMP, FEI) by using an accelerating
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voltage of 5 kV. The samples were sputtered with gold before observation. The
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high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) image was taken on a
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JEOL JEM 2010 FEF (UHR) microscope at 200 kV. The imbibed water of materials
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was exchanged to acetone, and then the microspheres were embedded with epoxy
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resin Epon812 (Shanghai Bioscience, Shanghai, China).After that, the embedded
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specimen was sectioned by a Leica Ultra cut-E using a diamond knife to prepare
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approx.70 nm-thick sections. The wide-angle X-ray diffraction (XRD) was carried out
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on a XRD instrument X’Pert Pro (PANalytical) with Cu-K radiation (=0.154 nm).
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The XRD data were collected from 2= 3 to 60o at a scanning rate of 2o/min. X-ray
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photoelectron spectra (XPS) were recorded on a ESCALAB 250Xi (Thermo Fisher)
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X-ray photoelectron spectrometer, using Al Kα radiation as the excitation source.
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Cell Adhesion and Cytotoxicity Assay
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The preosteoblast extracted from the calvaria of Mus musculus MC3T3-E1
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(ATCC, CRL-2592, U.S.A.) were cultured in α-minimal essential medium (α-MEM,
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Gibco, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, U.S.A.) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine
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proliferation of MC3T3-E1 cells on different substrates were characterized by using
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3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay after the cells
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were cultured for 1, 2 and 3 days. MC3T3-E1 cells co-cultured with sterilized NCMH
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microspheres (with a final concentration of 3 mg/mL ) at a density of 4104 cells/mL.
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For MTT assay, at each of the designated time points (1, 2 and 3 days), 40 μL of MTT
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(Sigma, U.S.A.) solution with a concentration of 5 mg/mL in phosphate buffered
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saline (PBS) was added to 400 μL of culture medium and incubated for 4 h at 37 °C.
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After the culture medium was removed, the formazan reaction products were
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dissolved in 400 μL of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for 20 min. The optical density of
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the formazan solution was read using a microflake reader (Thermo, Multiskn Go) at
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490 nm. Dyes (Calcein AM /Propidium Iodide, LIVE/DEAD Cell Viability Kits,
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Invitrogen)were added to the cells for 15 min. A fluorescence microscope(Nikon
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ECLIPSE Ti) was used to image the microspheres seeded with MC3T3-E1 at the
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corresponding excitation wavelength. For SEM investigations, the samples were
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washed with PBS, fixed in 2.5 wt% glutaraldehyde for 24 h. After they were washed
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with PBS for 3times, the chitin microspheres with cell culture were progressively
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dehydrated in ethanol (50 % to 99%), then solvent-exchange with t-BuOHand
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freeze-dried. The samples were sputtered with gold for SEM observation.
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Animal Tests
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bone. The microsphere scaffolds were filled into the defects (right leg), and the pure
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defect without any material was set as blank control (left leg). The wounds were
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closed with silk threads in layers. After surgery, the rabbits were returned to their
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cages and allowed to move freely. All rabbits were injected daily with penicillin
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intramuscularly with a dose of 400 000 units each for 1 week. All the wounds healed
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gradually, and the rabbits remained active with no post surgery complications.
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Animals were kept in the Institute of Experimental Animals of Wuhan University, in
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accordance with the institutional guidelines for care and use of laboratory animals.
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Results and Disscusion
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Construction of the HA-Chitin Hybrige Microspheres
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Scheme 1 provides a schematic roadmap to describe the preparation of HA
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coated chitin nanofibrous microsphere (NCMH) as bone scaffolding materials. The
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NCMH microspheres were fabricated by a bottom-up approach including two steps as
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follows. First, the chitin chains in the solution dissolved in NaOH/urea aqueous
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system at low temperature self-aggregated into the nanofibers under thermal inducing,
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and then nanofibrous microspheres (NCM) were fabricated via water/oil emulsion
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method.36 The NCM microspheres have been demonstrated to be an excellent 3D
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scaffold due to their nanofibrous and multiscale porous architecture for benefiting the
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nutrient transport and cell adhesion. Subsequently, the HA was introduced to form the
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flake (2D, NCMH1), needle (1D, NCMH2)and submicron-particle (0D, NCMH3)
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crystals. These HA crystals were assembled onto the chitin nanofibers (1D) on the
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microspheres. The fabrication of the NCM has been proved to be a physical process,
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so that almost all acetyl amino groups (DA=91%) were maintained, which could serve
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as anchoring sites for inorganic ions in HA.28 Thus, theCa2+ could be easily absorbed
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and stabilized onto the NCM through strong physical interactions with acetyl amino
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groups of chitin when the peculiar 3D scaffolds were soaked into the aqueous medium
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containing the calcium and phosphate salts. By using the pure NH3 or mixture of NH3
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and CO2 diffusion, the nanofibrous chitin microspheres could serve as the crystal
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nucleis for the crystal growth via the precipitating the calcium phosphate or calcium
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carbonate. Noticeably, the existence of both hydrophilic hydroxyls and acetyl amino
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group and hydrophobic pyranose rings of chitin resulted in the amphilicity of the
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materials, which would induce the crystal growth within control size, and avoid the
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completely cladding to the polymer matrix through the hydrophobic-hydrophilic
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interfacial interaction, thus maintaining the chitin naofibrous surface with significant
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biomedical function. Moreover, the distinctive porous nanofibrous structure could
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also acted as a template for the crystal growth, leading to them being an
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biomineralization platform for the bone tissue engineering scaffold application.
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subsequently transformed them into HA with sodium phosphate. We selected the
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NCM microspheres with mean diameter around 70 m (Figure 1a, b) as the starting
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materials, because this size could supply a median pore with diameter around 10-20
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m among the microsphere accumulation for the cells invasion.34The CaCO3
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precipitated on the NCM surface through the diffusion of the NH3 and CO2 into the
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CaCl2 aqueous soaked NCM. From the energy-dispersive spectrum (EDS) (Figure S1),
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there were the carbon and oxygen in
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nitrogen peaks, indicating the much lower intensity of N, compared with carbon and
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oxygen. AfterCaCO3 deposition, the carbon, oxygen and calcium appeared in the
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EDX spectrum of the CaCO3 coated NCM (Figure S1). The FTIR (Figure S2a)
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spectra indicated the characteristic bands at 875 and 746 cm-1 corresponding to out
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and in-plane bending of CO32−, suggesting the formation of CaCO3.17 The
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XRD(Figure S2b) confirmed the crystalline structure of calcite and aragonite. These
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results revealed the successful CaCO3 coating on the NCM. Interestingly, the CaCO3
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coated NCM displayed the same spherical shape and very similar nanofibrous
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structure(no crystals could be found) within NCM, but an increase of the nanofiber
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mean diameter (from 28 to 38 nm) (Figure1d, S3c). This could be explained that the
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chitin nanofibers acted as the templates and stabilizer for the extremely small CaCO3
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nanoparticles to deposit, so the morphology of the composite microspheres changed
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hardly, compared to the original one. After treated with the sodium phosphate, the
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flower-like structures with a diameter about 1-3μm composed of fine lamellae (Figure
NCM. However, there were no calcium or
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2a,d) emerged on NCM, and the chitin nanofibers penetrated into the HA crystals
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(Figure S4), indicating that the NCM microspheres acted as the template and nuclei
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function. Furthermore, different concentration of Ca2+ only affected the amount of the
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mineralization but not their nature or structure. At a relatively low Ca2+ concentration
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(50 mM), small flake crystals with diameter about 500 nm (Figure S5a)derived from
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the limited Ca2+ adhered on the chitin nanofibers, suggesting the crystal nuclei
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function of the chitin nanofiber. Unexpectedly, when the Ca2+ concentration increased
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to 150 mM, only small flake crystals with diameter about 400 nm(Figure
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Ca2+ could be obtained, but flake-like crystal with large size existed outside the NCM.
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This phenomenon arose from the fact that acetyl amino groups on the NCM have a
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saturated absorbed capacity for Ca2+, which could only bound a certain amount of
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CaCO3 crystal nucleis due to the amphilicity of the chitin, whereas large amounts of
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free CaCO3 crystal nuclei resulted from excessively high concentration of Ca2+ had a
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strong tendency of self-aggregation with each other and adsorbed the Ca2+ and CO32+
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quickly in aqueous to grow into a large crystal. After treated with sodium phosphate
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for HA transformation, only small flake HA crystals with diameter about 400 nm
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were fabricated on NCM, and large size crystal occurred outside the microsphere
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vapor diffused into a CaCl2-NaH2PO4 mixed solution (Scheme 1). The pure NH3
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induced the needle-like topography (Figure 2b, e), whereas the NH3 and CO2 led to a
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submicron-sphere crystal structure (Figure 2c, f) with the mean diameter about 315
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submicron-sphere crystals grew uniformly around the surface of the chitin
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nanofibrous microsphere, owing to the template and crystal nuclei function of the
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chitin for mineralization. Due to the small size of the submicron-sphere and
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submicron-needle HA, the Ca and P element were distributed homogeneously on the
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chitin microsphere surface(Figure 2). On the contrary, the micro size of the microflake
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HA crystals made they couldn’t coat on the chitin microsphere uniformly, and the
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flower-like edge of the Ca and P clearly indicated the boundary between the HA and
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From the FTIR and XRD results (Figure S6), the characteristic band of CO32+
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(874 and 747 cm-1) and PO43+(560-660 and 950-1100 cm-1) identified to CaCO3 and
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HA,41-44 respectively, confirming the formation of CaCO3-HA nanocomposites, as a
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result of the introduction of both CO2 and NH3 (the CaCO3 induced the sphere
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structure).45 It was noted that the mean diameter (310 nm) and morphology of the
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submicron-sphere crystals on NCM(Figure S7)changed hardly after the HA
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transformation through immersion in the sodium phosphate. The different
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NCM, and they just affected the density and crystal size of the crystal but not their
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nature and structure. For the needle and sphere-like crystals (Figure 3, 4 and S7, 8),
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within the Ca2+ concentration below 150 mM and 100 mM. The higher concentration
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led to a greater density and larger size of the HA coating on the NCM, whereas when
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submicron-needle(21, 24, 32, 39, 21 nm width
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200 mMCa2+ precursor)HA on the NCM decreased, and even some large flake
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aggregation of HA crystals appeared on the NCM for the submicron-sphere crystals.
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This could be explained by the facts that (1) the amphilicity of the chitin led to an
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appropriate affinity to the inorganic submicron-particles, and the chitin nanofibers
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could only adsorb certain amount of Ca2+ for the HA crystals growth, as a result the
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HA crystal size on the NCM could be controlled in submicron-scale size; (2) large
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amounts of free crystal nucleis existed in aqueous as mentioned above and they would
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self-aggregated into large size crystals. Interestingly, the sphere-like crystal displayed
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a ring structure with a pore through. The chitin nanofiber couldn’t be observed by the
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TEM for its low contrast. Thus, the NCMH hybrid microspheres with different size
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submicron-sphere HA crystals, corresponding to NCMH1, NCMH2 and NCMH3,
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To clarify the crystalline structure of the calcium phosphate coating, the
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microspheres were observed by XRD (Figure 5A). Besides the typical -chitin
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crystalline structure,46 all the samples displayed a low crystallinity HA architecture,
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which have been known for its good in vivo absorbability and efficient osteogenesis.15,
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spectroscopy (XPS). The overview spectra (Figure 5B) demonstrated that the C, O,
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Interestingly, the peak of N in NCMH1,2,3 shifted 0.1, 0.3, 0.4 to a lower binding
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energy (Figure 5C). This indicated that the N in the acetyl amino groups acted as the
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anchor for the HA nanoparticles, leading to their immobilization on NCM. The less
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joints between the flake crystals and chitin nanofibers arising from the larger size led
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to the smaller N shift of NCMH1. In view of these above results, the NCMH
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hybridmicrospheres were constructed by coating HA on the chitin nanofibers, which
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penetrated into hydroxyapatite crystals, leading to the hierarchical structure.The
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acetyl amine and hydroxyl groups on chitin could interact with the HA so that the
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chitin nanofibers could anchor the HA crystals through the non covalent bond (Figure
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5d). The relatively hydrophobic pyranose rings of chitin avoid the excessively large
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size HA growth within NCM matrix. Thus, the obtained HA crystals could be
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controlled in a submicron-scale size and the nanofibrous surface of the NCM could be
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maintained after the in-situ mineralization.Furthermore, the hydroxyl groups on the
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chitin may perform the hydrogen bonding to bound and stabilize the HA crystals
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during the mineralization process. Therefore, the tight interface adhesionbetween
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chitin and HAcrystals through the non covanlent bonds existed in the hybrid
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It was demonstrated that the cell functions such as cell adhesion, migration and
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proliferation respond differently to substrates with varied microscopic architecture.
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The surface topography and roughness of calcium phosphate or their composition
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with polymers have been reported to possess significant effects on human bone cells,
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especially on their proliferation and differentiation.47Thus, the NCMH microspheres
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with different HA morphology were further evaluated on their biofunction as bone
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scaffolding. We hypothesized that the HA coating morphology on the chitin
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microsphere was highly relevant to guide cell adhesion and proliferation on the
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NCMH microsphere scaffold, which would affect the bone scaffolding performance
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of the microsphere bone grafting. Moreover, such surface with microstructure,
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together with the interconnected pore resulted from the cavities among the
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microsphere accumulation (Figure S9b) could benefit to the potential bone scaffolding
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performance. We examined the chitin–HA microspheres as a bottom-up building
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block scaffolding for bone regeneration using two experimental models: (1) in vitro
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osteoblast precursor cell line culture; (2) rabbit radius defect repair. The in vitro cell
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NCMH microspheres with different HA structure coatings was examined and
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compared with that of the pure chitin microspheres. After 3 days of culture, the cell
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viability on the NCMH microspheres increased obviously, compared to the pure chitin
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microspheres (Figure S9a), indicating that the HA coatings enhanced the
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biocompatibility of the hybrid chitin microspheres for the osteoblast cell. Interestingly,
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though the similar crystalline structure and physicochemical property of the HA
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coatings, the cells number on submicron-needle and submicron-sphere HA coating
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microspheres were significantly higher than that of the micro-flake HA-chitin
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microsphere. The enhanced osteoblast proliferation was further confirmed by the
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florescent photographs of cells cultured on the NCMH microspheres (Figure 6a-h).
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significantly higher on the submicron-needle and submicron-sphere HA coating
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microsphere than that of the micro-flake,and this was consistent with the MTT results.
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It could be concluded that the addition of the HA crystals significantly improved the
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cytocompatibility of the NCMH microspheres as well as the osteoblast adhesion and
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proliferation. From the SEM images (Figure 6i–p), a clearer insight of the interaction
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between cells and microsphere appeared. The preosteoblast cells filopodium extended
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and adhered on the surface of the peripheral microspheres (Figure 6i-l). The cells only
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attached the single nanofibrous surface or micro-flake HA on chitin and NCMH1
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microspheres (Figure 6m, n and S9c, d). On the contrary, both the submicron-fibrous
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by the preosteoblast cells (Figure 6o, p and S9e, f). The high cell proliferation ratio of
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NCMH2 and NCMH3 could be attributed to the homogeneous submicron-scale HA
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crystals on the nanofibrous surface, which make the cells could attach to the chitin
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nanofibers and the HA submicron-crystals and their biofunctions of promoting cell
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adhesion and osteoconduction could be both maintained (Figure S9e, f). However, the
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micro-flake HA covered largely on the chitin nanofibrous surface to hinder the contact
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between the nanofibrous and the cells (Figure S9d), leading to a relatively low cell
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proliferation. In view of the results above, the HA submicron-crystals coated scaffold
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provided a suitable physicochemical and biological microenvironment for the
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osteoblast precursor cells to attach, which is an important factor in determining the
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eventual result of in vivo tissue regeneration. As a result, the NCMH2 and NCMH3
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(better in vitro cell proliferation performance) were selected for further in vivo
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cell-free bone repair analyses. It is well known that HA has been widely adopted as
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the artificial bone in clinical bone defect therapy for many years, thus we used them
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as a standard by which the performance of our NCMH were judged.
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The widely used radius defect model was selected as the standard to evaluate the
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bone regeneration performance of the NCMH.48 In a typical rat radius defect model, a
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critical length of 15 mm bone defect was created (Figure 7b). A fracture defect of this
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size cannot be healed during the lifetime of the animal.49 The as-prepared scaffold
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with cell-free seeded were implanted into the critical size (Figure 7c). The NCMH
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interconnected channel among the microspheres could allow the fast cells invasion
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and proliferation on the all microsphere scaffold (Figure 7a). After twelve weeks of
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implantation, the digital radiographs (Figure 7d) and hematoxylin and eosin (HE)
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staining images (Figure 8) showed that, except for the blank group (the left), all the
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defects implanted with the scaffolds were bridged by the newly formed bone(Figure
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8). However, the defect area in the control group was primarily filled up with fibrous
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soft tissue and without marked bone formation (HE in Figure 8), indicating a reliable
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animal model. Interestingly, the NCMH2 and NCMH3 microspheres exhibited the
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better bone fusion with the clear outlines of cortex and larger amount of new bone
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(NB) than that of the pure chitin microsphere or HA submicron-crystals (Figure 7d).
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More surprisingly, even some obvious bone marrow cavities and vessel structure
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occurred in the NCMH2 and NCMH3, suggesting that the regenerated bone have a
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submicron-crystals coating microsphere successfully combined the both biofunctions
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of HA and chitin nanofibrous microspheres, leading to the significantly promoting
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bone defect healing. With the new bone (NB) formed, the NCMH2 and NCMH3 were
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adsorbed gradually, and the unhealed defect area was still filled with the microspheres
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during the healing process (data not shown). After 12 weeks, when the defect was
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almost entirely regenerated, only 12 % (NCMH2) and 11 % (NCMH3) microspheres
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were left, and no microspheres were observed after 16 weeks. These results indicated
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the biodegradability of NCMH in vivo. These findings demonstrated that a
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microsphere scaffold with appropriate surface properties together with dynamic
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biodegradation can guide the in vivo bone regeneration under clinically challenging
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healing conditions to relieve the pain of patients.
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The nanofibrous chitin microspheres (NCM) were fabricated from the chitin
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solution in NaOH/urea aqueous system with cooling, and subsequently the NCMH
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hybrid microspheres coated with different size and shape HA submicron-crystals
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including the micro-flake, submicron-needle and submicron-sphere were constructed
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successfully through the non covanlent bonds, generating a new class of the
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bottom-up bone grafting scaffold. In the NCMHmicrospheres, the chitin nanofibers
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penetrated into hydroxyapatite crystals, leading to the hierarchical structure. The
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introduced HA submicron-crystals effectively enhanced the osteoblast precursor cell
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proliferation on the NCMH microspheres. The hybrid microspheres consisted of
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needle and/or sphere HA submicron-crystals and the chitin nanofibers exhibited
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excellent biofunctions for promoting the cell adhesion and the high inducing
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osteoconduction, as a result of the combinationthe inherent biocompatibilitiesand the
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hierarchical microstructure ofboth the chitin nanofibrous and HA. The NCMH
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microspheres could effectively heal the bone defect in vivo without external
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preloading with cells or simultaneous application of bioactive growth factors.
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provided the sufficient channels for the cells invasion and proliferation, as well as the
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flexible adaption for the irregular shape defects. This new appealing concept for bone
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scaffold discovered in this study could serve as a design consideration for
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next-generation bone grafts in tissue engineering.
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Acknowledgements
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This work was supported by the Major Program of National Natural Science
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Foundation of China (21334005), theMajor International (Regional) Joint Research
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Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (21620102004), and the
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (20874079).
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Supporting Information.
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EDX, XRD and FTIR profiles of the NCM, CaCO3 coated NCM and
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submicron-sphere crystal coated NCM. SEM images of the CaCO3 coated NCM and
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microflake calcium phosphate with different Ca2+ concentration coated NCM. SEM
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images of the submicron-sphere size and its distribution. The width distribution of the
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HA submicron-needle crystals. MTT assay for the cell viability on native and calcium
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phosphate coated naofibrous chitin microspheres. The description of the contact of the
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Scheme 1. Schematic formation process of microflake (NCMH1), submicron-needle
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(NCMH2) and submicron-sphere(NCMH3) hydroxyapatite crystals coated on the
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Figure 1. SEM images of nanofibrous chitin microspheres (a, b, c) and the diameter
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Figure 2. SEM images of the NCMH1 (a, d), NCMH2 (b, e) and NCMH3 (c, f);
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Element mapping of Ca and P ford, e ,f; TEM images of the NCMH1 (g), NCMH2 (h)
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Figure 3.SEM images of the submicron-needleHA deposited on NCM with
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(d, h); the width distribution (i, j, k, l) of the HA submicron-needle crystals in (e, f, g,
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Figure 4.SEM images of the submicron-sphere HA deposited on NCM with
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concentration of Ca2+ precursor solution for 75 (a, d), 150 (b, e) and 200 mM (c f); the
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diameter distribution (g, h, i) of the HA submicron-sphere crystals in (d, e, f).
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Figure 5. XRD spectra (A), XPS fully scanned spectra (B) and XPS spectra of N1s
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(C) for NCMH1 (a), NCMH2 (b), NCMH3 (c) and NCM (d); some dicalcium
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phosphate dehydrate (DCPD) existed in a (A); the hydroxyl and acetyl amino groups
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om chitin nanofibers interacted with the HA crystals throug the non covalent bond.
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Figure 6. Bright field (a-d), LIVE assay fluorescent image (e-h) and SEM images of
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(l ,p). The scale bar are (a-d) 20m, (e-h) 20 m, (i-l) 10 m and (m-p) 2 m.
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Figure 7. Strategy for HA coated chitin nanofibrous microspheres induced bone
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regeneration (a); the rabbit radius bone defect (b) and microsphere as bone grafting
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implanted (c); X-ray examination (d) of the original bone defects and the defects
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treated with NCM, HA, NCMH2 and NCMH3 for 12 weeks.
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Figure 8. The photograph and HE staining images (e) of the regeneration bone in d;
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Scheme 1. Schematic formation process of microflake (NCMH1), submicron-needle
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Figure 1. SEM images of nanofibrous chitin microspheres (a, b, c) and the diameter
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distribution (d) of chitin nanofibers.
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Figure 2. SEM images of the NCMH1 (a, d), NCMH2 (b, e) and NCMH3 (c, f);
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Element mapping of Ca and P ford, e ,f; TEM images of the NCMH1 (g), NCMH2 (h)
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and NCMH3 (i).The Ca2+ precursor concentration = 100 mM.
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Figure 3.SEM images of the submicron-needleHA deposited on NCM with
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(d, h); the width distribution (i, j, k, l) of the HA submicron-needle crystals in (e, f, g,
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Figure 4.SEM images of the submicron-sphere HA deposited on NCM with
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diameter distribution (g, h, i) of the HA submicron-sphere crystals in (d, e, f).
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regeneration (a); the rabbit radius bone defect (b) and microsphere as bone grafting
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Figure 8. The photograph and HE staining images (e) of the regeneration bone in d;
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Nanofibers Penetrated Hydroxyapatite Crystalsfor Bone
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Regeneration
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College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072,
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Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Area Command of Chinese PLA, Guangzhou 510010, China
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