[HTML][HTML] Tendon tissue engineering: Cells, growth factors, scaffolds and production techniques

S Ruiz-Alonso, M Lafuente-Merchan, J Ciriza… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tendon injuries are a global health problem that affects millions of people annually. The
properties of tendons make their natural rehabilitation a very complex and long-lasting …

Biomaterials in tendon and skeletal muscle tissue engineering: current trends and challenges

M Beldjilali-Labro, A Garcia Garcia, F Farhat, F Bedoui… - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering is a promising approach to repair tendon and muscle when natural
healing fails. Biohybrid constructs obtained after cells' seeding and culture in dedicated …

Tendon tissue engineering: effects of mechanical and biochemical stimulation on stem cell alignment on cell‐laden hydrogel yarns

C Rinoldi, M Costantini… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber‐based approaches hold great promise for tendon tissue engineering enabling the
possibility of manufacturing aligned hydrogel filaments that can guide collagen fiber …

A review of recent advances in natural polymer-based scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

J Fan, K Abedi-Dorcheh, A Sadat Vaziri… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The musculoskeletal (MS) system consists of bone, cartilage, tendon, ligament, and skeletal
muscle, which forms the basic framework of the human body. This system plays a vital role in …

In vitro innovation of tendon tissue engineering strategies

MR Citeroni, MC Ciardulli, V Russo… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tendinopathy is the term used to refer to tendon disorders. Spontaneous adult tendon
healing results in scar tissue formation and fibrosis with suboptimal biomechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue plan for Achilles: Therapeutics steering the fate and functions of stem cells in tendon wound healing

M Schneider, P Angele, TAH Järvinen… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the increasing age of our society and a rise in engagement of young people in
extreme and/or competitive sports, both tendinopathies and tendon ruptures present a …

Bioengineered 3D living fibers as in vitro human tissue models of tendon physiology and pathology

I Calejo, CJ Labrador‐Rached… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clinically relevant in vitro models of human tissue's health and disease are urgently needed
for a better understanding of biological mechanisms essential for the development of novel …

Growth factors in the treatment of Achilles tendon injury

M Lin, W Li, X Ni, Y Sui, H Li, X Chen, Y Lu… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Achilles tendon (AT) injury is one of the most common tendon injuries, especially in athletes,
the elderly, and working-age people. In AT injury, the biomechanical properties of the …

An anisotropic nanocomposite hydrogel guides aligned orientation and enhances tenogenesis of human tendon stem/progenitor cells

Y Xu, H Yin, J Chu, D Eglin, T Serra… - Biomaterials Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The uniform and aligned arrangement of tendon cells is a marker of tendon tissue
morphology and the embodiment of its biological anisotropy. However, most of the …

Optimizing growth factor induction of tenogenesis in three-dimensional culture of mesenchymal stem cells

I Rajpar, JG Barrett - Journal of tissue engineering, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Adult tissue stem cells have shown promise for the treatment of debilitating tendon injuries.
However, few comparisons of stem cells from different tissue sources have been made to …