Corrosion of magnesium and magnesium–calcium alloy in biologically-simulated environment

作     者：Richard Harrison Diana Maradze Simon Lyons Yufeng Zheng Yang Liu 

作者机构：Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells Tissue Engineering and Modelling (STEM) Centre for Biomolecular Sciences University of Nottingham College of Engineering Peking University Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Loughborough University Loughborough 

出 版 物：《Progress in Natural Science:Materials International》 (自然科学进展·国际材料(英文))

年 卷 期：2014年第24卷第5期

页      面：539-546页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 080502[工学-材料学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：Funding for this research was provided by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant no. EPF500491/1) Doctoral Training Centre (R.H and D.M.) and EPSRC vocational bursary (S.L.) 

主　　题：Magnesium Biometal Corrosion Biocompatibility Stem cells In vitro 

摘      要：A study of biocompatibility and corrosion of both metallic magnesium(Mg) and a magnesium alloy containing 1% calcium(Mg–Ca) were investigated in in vitro culture conditions with and without the presence of bone marrow derived human mesenchymal stem cells(h MSCs).Chemical analysis of the degraded samples was performed using XRD and FEGSEM. The results from the XRD analysis strongly suggested that crystalline phase of magnesium carbonate was present on the surface of both the Mg and Mg–Ca samples. Flame absorption spectrometry was used to analyse the release of magnesium and calcium ions into the cell culture medium. Magnesium concentration was kept consistently at a level ranging from 40 to 80 m M for both Mg and Mg–Ca samples. No cell growth was observed when in direct contact with the metals apart from a few cells observed at the bottom of culture plate containing Mg–Ca alloy. In general, in vitro study of corrosion of Mg–Ca in a biologicallysimulated environment using cell culture medium with the presence of h MSCs demonstrated close resemblances to in vivo corrosion. Although in vitro corrosion of Mg–Ca revealed slow corrosion rate and no immediate cytotoxicity effects to h MSCs, its corrosion rate was still too high to achieve normal stem cell growth when cells and alloys were cultured in vitro in direct contact.