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<journal-id>0120-6230</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev.fac.ing.univ. Antioquia]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0120-6230</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0120-62302016000300038</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17533/udea.redin.n80a05</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Fabrication of chitosan/bioactive glass composite scaffolds for medical applications]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Fabricación de andamios compuestos de quitosano y vidrio bioactivo para aplicaciones médicas]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Escobar-Sierra*]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diana Marcela]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Posada-Carvajal]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Johnnatan Stiven]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Atehortúa-Soto]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diego León]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Antioquia Facultad de Ingeniería ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Medellín ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>80</numero>
<fpage>38</fpage>
<lpage>47</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0120-62302016000300038&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0120-62302016000300038&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0120-62302016000300038&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT In the current study, a bioactive glass (BG) powder was prepared by sol-gel technique in the system SiO2-CaO-P2O5, and both, bioactive glass precursors (BGi) and the powder of bioactive glass (BGp) were used to produce crosslinked chitosan composite scaffolds (CH/BGi and CH/BGp), which were produced by lyophilization. The bioactive glass was analyzed to know its composition, crystallinity and morphology through Raman Spectroscopy (RS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), respectively. In addition, compression strength tests were carried out on the resulting composite scaffolds. Experimental results show that the fabricated CH/BG scaffolds might be a promising composite biomaterial for bone tissue engineering, due to the XRD results, showing a pollutant-free biomaterial, and, SEM shows bioactive glass particles homogenously distributed within the chitosan matrix which suggested that the developed composite scaffolds possess the prerequisites for tissue engineering and these can be used for tissue engineering applications.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN En el presente estudio, un polvo de vidrio bioactivo (VB) fue preparado por la técnica sol-gel en el sistema SiO2-CaO-P2O5, y ambos, precursores de vidrio bioactivo (VBi) y polvo de vidrio bioactivo (VBp) se utilizaron para producir andamios compuestos por quitosano y vidrio bioactivo (Qno/VBi y Qno/VBp), los cuales fueron producidos por liofilización. El vidrio bioactivo fue analizado para conocer su composición, cristalinidad y morfología a través de Espectroscopía Raman (RS), Difracción de Rayos X (DRX) y Microscopía Electrónica de Barrido (MEB), respectivamente. Además, pruebas de resistencia a la compresión se llevaron a cabo sobre los andamios compuestos resultantes. Los resultados experimentales muestran que los andamios de Qno/VB podrían ser un biomaterial compuesto muy prometedor para ingeniería de tejido óseo, debido a los resultados de DRX, que muestra un biomaterial libre de contaminantes, además el SEM muestra partículas de vidrio bioactivo homogéneamente distribuidas dentro de la matriz de quitosano sugiriendo que los andamios de material compuesto desarrollados poseen los requisitos previos para la ingeniería de tejidos y que éstos pueden ser utilizados para aplicaciones de ingeniería de tejidos.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Bioactive glass]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[chitosan]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[scaffolds]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[tissue engineering]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Vidrio bioactivo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[quitosano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[andamios]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ingeniería de tejidos]]></kwd>
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