Method for making mineralized collagen fibrils from recombinant collagen and their use as bone replacement material

摘要

Mineralised collagen fibrils are produced by a one step fibril formation and mineralisation. Also, a collagen/calcium phosphate composite is manufactured by embedding the resulting fibrils in a calcium phosphate cement. Production of mineralised collagen fibrils comprises performing the fibril formation and mineralisation in one step. An Independent claim is also included for the manufacture of a collagen/calcium phosphate by embedding the produced mineralised collagen fibrils in a calcium phosphate cement consisting of calcium phosphates, e.g. tetracalcium phosphate, calcium hydrogen phosphate, calcium hydroxylapatite, calcium dihydrogen phosphate and/or calcium carbonate, sodium phosphates and/or their mixtures, using a collagen:CaP weight ratio of 1:1-200.