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US 2010/0143435 A1Published application
Scaffold with increased pore size
AssigneeSmith & Nephew, Inc.
InventorsAnthony Dagger, Helene Lecomte, Rhianna Moss
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Abstract
The invention relates to scaffolds for use as medical devices, for guided tissue regeneration and repair, wherein the relationship between fibre diameter and pore size in a scaffold is decoupled, thereby enabling the small fibre diameters required for cell attachment and proliferation and the large pore sizes needed for cell migration into the scaffold to be achieved.
Claims33
A method of manufacturing a polymer scaffold, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) generating a first set of fibres from a first polymer solution;
- (b) generating a second set of fibres from a second polymer solution, wherein the second set of fibres are interspersed between the first set of fibres;
- and,
- (c) extracting the second set of fibres from the scaffold.
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