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Natural building blocks for siRNA delivery with bone regeneration therapy


Advancing bone implant engineering offers the opportunity to overcome crucial medical challenges and improve clinical outcomes. Although the establishment of a functional vascular network is crucial for bone development, its regeneration inside bone tissue has only received limited attention to date. In this study, BMI researchers utilize siRNA-decorated particles to engineer a hierarchical nanostructured coating on clinically used titanium implants for the synergistic regeneration of skeletal and vascular tissues. Highly biocompatible biomass-based building blocks were used for the construction of nanostructured layers loaded with therapeutic siRNA and nanoparticles. An siRNA was designed to target the regulation of cathepsin K and conjugated on nanoparticles. By regulating mRNA transcription, the coating significantly promotes cell viability and growth factor release related to vascularization. Moreover, microchip-based experiments demonstrate that the nanostructured coating facilitates macrophage-induced synergy in up- regulation of at least seven bone and vascular growth factors. Ovariectomized rat and comprehensive beagle dog models highlight that this siRNA-integrated nanostructured coating possesses all the key traits of a clinically promising candidate to address the myriad of challenges associated with bone regeneration.

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