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Poly(l-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) was synthesized using a biocompatible initiator, zirconium acetylacetonate. In vitro and in vivo degradation properties of PLGA films (produced by solvent casting, 180 μm thick) and PLGA scaffolds (produced by an innovated solvent casting and particulate leaching, 3 mm thick) were evaluated. The samples were either submitted for degradation in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) at 37 °C for 30 weeks, or implanted into rat skeletal muscles for 1, 4, 12, 22 and 30 weeks. The degradation was monitored by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, weight loss, and molecular weight changes (in vitro), and by microscopic observations of the materials’ morphology after histological staining with May-Grunwald-Giemsa (in vivo). The results show that the films in both conditions degraded much faster than the scaffolds. The scaffolds were dimensionally stable for 23 weeks, while the films lost their integrity after 7 weeks in vitro. The films’ degradation was heterogenous—degradation in their central parts was faster than in the surface and subsurface regions due to the increased concentration of the acidic degradation products inside. In the scaffolds, having much thinner pore walls, heterogenous degradation due to the autocatalytic effect was not observed.
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The authors thank Dr. P. Dobrzyński for providing polymer samples and MSc M. Żołnierek for her help in implantation. This study was supported by the research project of the Polish Ministry of Science (3 T08D 019 28).
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Pamula, E., Menaszek, E. In vitro and in vivo degradation of poly(l-lactide-co-glycolide) films and scaffolds. J Mater Sci: Mater Med 19, 2063–2070 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-007-3292-2
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