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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2010 Apr 24;31(21):5700–5718. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.03.017

Table 4.

Summary of structure-property-performance relationships

Scaffolds Physical properties Amount of bound Biotin-PlnDIV-BSA complexes (mg)† Biological performance
Average Fiber/Pore size (μm) DOC (%) Young modulus (GPa) F-actin: stress fiber formation Proliferation rate (%)* 5days/10days In-growth* (%)
PCL/CHCl3 2.93/20.76 60.2 1.2 0.17 No 10.8** 96.9
PCL/HFIP 0.73/9.37 36.1 1.35 0.27 Yes 16.9/36.4 67.5
PCL/gel/HFIP 1.52/18.59 19.8 1.58 0.23 Yes 37.3/92 56.4
PCL/gel/TFE 3.74/38.79 25.4 0.59 0.13 No 8.0** 36.8
†

Values after background subtraction.

*

Percentage of increase over unmodified contro.

**

Data from 5 days proliferation assay