Kyushu University · Engineering
Professor Takahisa Anada's research lab focuses on biomaterials and tissue engineering, with a central emphasis on octacalcium phosphate (OCP) for bone regeneration and bioactive materials design. The lab investigates the physicochemical mechanisms underlying OCP's ability to induce osteogenic differentiation and its transformation into hydroxyapatite in physiological environments. Utilizing advanced fabrication techniques such as bioprinting and THz spectroscopy, the lab explores the role of hydration dynamics and molecular interactions in protein stability and cellular responses. The integration of stem cells, vascularization, and functional hydrogel constructs highlights the lab’s commitment to developing next-generation bone-mimetic implants.
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Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) has been advocated to be a precursor of biological apatite crystals in bones and teeth. Our previous studies showed that synthetic OCP stimulates bone regeneration, followed by the progressive conversion of OCP into hydroxyapatite (HA), when implanted in bone defects. However, the precise mechanism to induce the osteogenic phenotype in osteoblasts by OCP has not been identified. The present study was designed to investigate whether the physicochemical aspect, specific
Bone is a highly vascularized tissue with a unique and complex structure. Long bone consists of a peripheral cortical shell containing a network of channels for vascular penetration and an inner highly vascularized bone marrow space. Bioprinting is a powerful tool to enable rapid and precise spatial patterning of cells and biomaterials. Here we developed a two-step digital light processing technique to fabricate a bone-mimetic 3D hydrogel construct based on octacalcium phosphate (OCP), spheroids
There is a long, ongoing debate on how small molecules (osmolytes) affect the stability of proteins. The present study found that change in collective rotational dynamics of water in osmolyte solutions likely has a dominant effect on protein denaturation. According to THz spectroscopy analysis, osmolytes that stabilize proteins are accompanied by bound hydration water with slow dynamics, while the collective rotational dynamics of water is accelerated in the case of denaturant osmolytes. Among 1
We have developed an affinity capillary electrophoresis for gene mutation assay. We show a method for separating a mixture of oligodeoxynucleotides having single-base difference using oligodeoxynucleotide-polyacrylamide conjugate. Because the conjugate behaved similarly to nonionic polyacrylamide in terms of migration rate, it can be used as a pseudoimmobilized affinity ligand in a polyacrylamide-coated capillary. Oligodeoxynucleotide having an oncogene sequence and a version with one base subst
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