Hybrid Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration: Chemotaxis and Physical Confinement as Sources of Biomimesis

Table 1

Composition of the mineral phase in HA/Coll and bHA/Coll scaffolds in comparison with human bone.

	Typical composition of human bone (wt%)	Introduced ions (wt%)	Actual HA/Coll (wt%)	Actual bHA/Coll (wt%)
Ca^2+	24.36	27.98	26.06	25.54
PO43−	32.62	39.79	36.04	31.78
Si^4+	0.29–0.58	0.63	—	0.41
Mg^2+	0.35–0.91	2.96	—	0.53
CO32−	2.1–5.6	—	>2	>2