Current progress in tendon and ligament tissue engineering

WL Lim, LL Liau, MH Ng, SR Chowdhury… - Tissue engineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Background: Tendon and ligament injuries accounted for 30% of all musculoskeletal
consultations with 4 million new incidences worldwide each year and thus imposed a …

ECM in differentiation: a review of matrix structure, composition and mechanical properties

A Padhi, AS Nain - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2020 - Springer
Stem cell regenerative potential owing to the capacity to self-renew as well as differentiate
into other cell types is a promising avenue in regenerative medicine. Stem cell niche not …

Extracellular matrix-based biomaterials and their influence upon cell behavior

MC Cramer, SF Badylak - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2020 - Springer
Biologic scaffold materials composed of allogeneic or xenogeneic extracellular matrix (ECM)
are commonly used for the repair and remodeling of injured tissue. The clinical outcomes …

Controlling stem cell behavior with decellularized extracellular matrix scaffolds

G Agmon, KL Christman - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Decellularized tissues have become a common regenerative medicine platform with multiple
materials being researched in academic laboratories, tested in animal studies, and used …

Engineered skeletal muscles for disease modeling and drug discovery

J Wang, A Khodabukus, L Rao, K Vandusen… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle is the largest organ of human body with several important roles in everyday
movement and metabolic homeostasis. The limited ability of small animal models of muscle …

Mechanical and biochemical stimulation of 3D multilayered scaffolds for tendon tissue engineering

C Rinoldi, A Fallahi, IK Yazdi… - ACS biomaterials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tendon injuries are frequent and occur in the elderly, young, and athletic populations. The
inadequate number of donors combined with many challenges associated with autografts …

Three-dimensional digital light-processing bioprinting using silk fibroin-based bio-ink: recent advancements in biomedical applications

MT Sultan, OJ Lee, JS Lee, CH Park - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting has been developed as a viable method for fabricating
functional tissues and organs by precisely spatially arranging biomaterials, cells, and …

Humanoid robots to mechanically stress human cells grown in soft bioreactors

PA Mouthuy, S Snelling, R Hostettler… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
For more than 20 years, robotic bioreactor systems have facilitated the growth of tissue-
engineered constructs using mechanical stimulation. However, we are still unable to …

Tendon and cytokine marker expression by human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in a hyaluronate/poly-lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA)/fibrin three-dimensional …

MC Ciardulli, L Marino, J Lovecchio, E Giordano… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
We developed a (three-dimensional) 3D scaffold, we named HY-FIB, incorporating a force-
transmission band of braided hyaluronate embedded in a cell localizing fibrin hydrogel and …

A digital light processing 3D printed magnetic bioreactor system using silk magnetic bioink

O Ajiteru, KY Choi, TH Lim, H Hong, YJ Lee… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Among various bioreactors used in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine, a magnetic bioreactor is more capable of providing steady force to the cells while …