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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Healthc Mater. 2012 Sep 28;2(1):13–24. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201200209

Table 1.

Methods of synthesis for the three different types of hybrid constructs discussed within this manuscript, including polymeric constructs incorporating collagen and calcium phosphate, biological tissue ECM-based constructs, and cell-generated ECM-based constructs.

Construct Type Methods of Synthesis References

Polymeric constructs
incorporating
collagen and
calcium phosphate
Sequential deposition of collagen or gelatin and
hydroxyapatite onto scaffold
  1. Generate polymer scaffold

    1. Electrospinning

    2. 3D printing

    3. Lyophilization

  2. Coat scaffold with collagen or gelatin

  3. Coat scaffold with hydroxyapatite

[13, 14, 22,
26, 27]

Simultaneous incorporation of collagen or gelatin
and calcium phosphate within scaffold
[2933]
  1. Combine polymer, collagen or gelatin, and calcium phosphate

  2. Remove solvent


Incorporation of collagen or gelatin within scaffold
followed by deposition of calcium phosphate
  1. Combine polymer with collagen or gelatin

  2. Remove solvent

  3. Coat scaffold with calcium phosphate

[3436]

Incorporation of calcium phosphate within scaffold
followed by deposition of collagen or gelatin
  1. Combine polymer with calcium phosphate

  2. Remove solvent

  3. Coat scaffold with collagen or gelatin


Biological tissue
ECM-based
construct
  1. Decellularize biological tissue

    1. Bone matrix

    2. Urinary bladder submucosa

  2. Pulverize the acellular tissue

  3. Combine polymer and acellular tissue particles

  4. Solidify

[15, 16,
3739]

Cell-generated
ECM-based
construct
  1. Seed cells on porous scaffolds

    1. Stem cells

    2. Pre-osteoblastic cells

    3. Osteoblasts

  2. Culture cell-seeded scaffolds

    1. Static culture

    2. Flow culture

    3. Electromagnetic stimulation culture

    4. Dynamic strain culture

[17, 18,
5157, 6377,
7982, 84,
8894, 115, 116]