Acceleration of vascularized bone tissue-engineered constructs in a large animal model combining intrinsic and extrinsic vascularization

A Weigand, JP Beier, A Hess, T Gerber… - … Engineering Part A, 2015 - liebertpub.com
During the last decades, a range of excellent and promising strategies in Bone Tissue
Engineering have been developed. However, the remaining major problem is the lack of …

Engineering of vascularized transplantable bone tissues: induction of axial vascularization in an osteoconductive matrix using an arteriovenous loop

U Kneser, E Polykandriotis, J Ohnolz, K Heidner… - Tissue …, 2006 - liebertpub.com
Introduction: Vascularization remains an obstacle to engineering of larger volume bone
tissues. Our aim was to induce axial vascularization in a processed bovine cancellous bone …

A novel strategy for prefabrication of large and axially vascularized tissue engineered bone by using an arteriovenous loop

LL Ren, DY Ma, X Feng, TQ Mao, YP Liu, Y Ding - Medical hypotheses, 2008 - Elsevier
The repair of bone defects remains a major clinical challenge because none available
reconstruction methods and biomaterials have been proved completely satisfactory. As a …

Tissue‐engineered vascularized bone grafts: Basic science and clinical relevance to trauma and reconstructive microsurgery

EO Johnson, T Troupis, PN Soucacos - Microsurgery, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Bone grafts are an important part of orthopaedic surgeon's armamentarium. Despite well‐
established bone‐grafting techniques, large bone defects still represent a challenge. Efforts …

Prefabrication of a large pedicled bone graft by engineering the germ for de novo vascularization and osteoinduction

C Epple, A Haumer, T Ismail, A Lunger, A Scherberich… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Large and complex bone defects represent challenging clinical scenarios, typically requiring
autologous vascularized bone transplants. In order to bypass the numerous associated …

Vascularized bone tissue engineering: approaches for potential improvement

LH Nguyen, N Annabi, M Nikkhah, H Bae… - … Engineering Part B …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Significant advances have been made in bone tissue engineering (TE) in the past decade.
However, classical bone TE strategies have been hampered mainly due to the lack of …

Vascularization of natural and synthetic bone scaffolds

X Liu, AE Jakus, M Kural, H Qian, A Engler… - Cell …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Vascularization of engineered bone tissue is critical for ensuring its survival after
implantation. In vitro pre-vascularization of bone grafts with endothelial cells is a promising …

Role of biomechanics in vascularization of tissue-engineered bones

F Mokhtari-Jafari, G Amoabediny, MM Dehghan - Journal of biomechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomaterial based reconstruction is still the most commonly employed method of small bone
defect reconstruction. Bone tissue-engineered techniques are improving, and adjuncts such …

Axial prevascularization of porous matrices using an arteriovenous loop promotes survival and differentiation of transplanted autologous osteoblasts

A Arkudas, JP Beier, K Heidner, J Tjiawi… - Tissue …, 2007 - liebertpub.com
Generation of axially vascularized bioartificial bone might be performed using matrix
neovascularization in connection with osteoblast injection. We sought to evaluate whether …

Engineering clinically relevant volumes of vascularized bone

BM Roux, MH Cheng, EM Brey - Journal of Cellular and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Vascularization remains one of the most important challenges that must be overcome for
tissue engineering to be consistently implemented for reconstruction of large volume bone …