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Our aim was to develop a biocompatible bone repair material that has the advantage of preventing postoperative infections. Finally, the porous magnesium (p-Mg) loaded with gentamicin sulphate (GS-loaded Mg-G) was fabricated. The GS release behavior of the GS-loaded Mg-G in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) was investigated. The effective release time of GS reached to 14 days. In addition, the effects of porosity and pore diameter of p-Mg on the GS release behavior of the GS-loaded Mg-G were studied. In the initial burst release stage, the GS release rate of the GS-loaded Mg-G increased with the increasing porosity or the increasing pore diameter of p-Mg. The GS-loaded Mg-G with larger original pore diameter has higher burst release of GS. Moreover, the in vitro antibacterial test of the GS-loaded Mg-G indicated that this biomaterial has obvious antibacterial effect. This study can provide information for p-Mg loaded with drug(s) as functional bone repair materials with drug-delivery capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Porous titanium with entangled wire structure was enhanced by filling gelatin into the porous structure to form a titanium-gelatin (Ti-G) composite. The density of the composites was 1.6–2.5 g/cm 3 , similar to that of bone. The strength and elastic modulus of the composites reached 12.9–39.4 MPa and 2.5–7.4 GPa, respectively, which were comparable to that of the cortical bone. Gelatin in Ti-G composite acted as the carrier of gentamicin sulphate (GS). Antibacterial efficacy of GS-loaded Ti-G against Staphylococcus aureus strain was tested. The lack of growth of Staphylococcus aureus strains was found in Luria–Bertani (LB) medium containing GS-loaded Ti-G. GS release behavior from the GS-loaded Ti-G composites in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) was investigated. The effective GS release times from Ti30-G and Ti50-G were 120 h and 168 h, respectively. The gelatin in Ti-G was just degraded 3.2% at the immersion time of 168 h and 9.0% at 336 h. The degradation rate of gelatin was much slower than release rate of GS, indicated that the GS release from gelatin was less affected by the gelatin degradation. These Ti-G composites loaded with drug(s) are expected to be good candidates as functional bone repair materials with drug-delivery capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]