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Biodegrable pure Zn stent decorated with lanthanide doped cerium oxide coating toward engineering to improve corrosion resistance and antioxiant cardial patch
  • Yuemei Li,
  • Yongmei Li
Yuemei Li
Xiamen University School of Medicine

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Yongmei Li
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging
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Abstract

Zn alloy stent has become a promising implantable cardiac patch stent. However, traditional Zn alloy stents not only easily induce neointimal hyperplasia, but also cannot improve reperfusion ischemia after myocardial infarction. Here, the Yb/Er/CeO 2 coating grow on the surface of Zn substrate, which inhibits the release of Zn 2+ and enhances the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells. This layer improves re-endothelialization and avoiding restenosis. Yb/Er/CeO 2 coating generates the transition from the valence band to conduction band under 980 nm excitation, which forms transfer energy of photo-induced electron-hole pairs. This transfer energy can catalyze H 2O and O 2 to generate a chemical link group, which accelerate the deposition rate of drug-eluting coating PLGA and increase the corrosion resistance of Zn stents. Particularly, the Yb/Er/CeO 2 coating exhibits good catalytic ability for active oxygen species (ROS), which can effectively scavenge myocardial cells damage. Yb/Er/CeO 2 nanoparticles layer (Nps) improve mitochondrial function and increases oxidative phosphorylation, which achieves anti-damage effects. Zn@Yb/Er/CeO 2/PLGA can serve as an excellent myocardial patch scaffold for repairing damaged myocardial cells, which has promising applications in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.