Nature Communications (May 2022)

An instantly fixable and self-adaptive scaffold for skull regeneration by autologous stem cell recruitment and angiogenesis

  • Gonggong Lu,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Quanying Liu,
  • Manyu Chen,
  • Huan Sun,
  • Peilei Wang,
  • Xing Li,
  • Yuxiang Wang,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Xuhui Hui,
  • En Luo,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Qing Jiang,
  • Jie Liang,
  • Yujiang Fan,
  • Yong Sun,
  • Xingdong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30243-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Limited stem cells and mismatched interface fusion have plagued biomaterial-mediated cranial reconstruction. Here, the authors engineer an instantly fixable and self-adaptive scaffold to promote calcium chelation and interface integration, regulate macrophage M2 polarization, and recruit endogenous stem cells.