Tissue Engineering Approaches in the Design of Healthy and Pathological In Vitro Tissue Models

S Caddeo, M Boffito, S Sartori - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the tissue engineering (TE) paradigm, engineering and life sciences tools are combined
to develop bioartificial substitutes for organs and tissues, which can in turn be applied in …

Advances and Current Challenges in Intestinal in vitro Model Engineering: A Digest

J Costa, A Ahluwalia - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The physiological environment of the intestine is characterized by its variegated
composition, numerous functions and unique dynamic conditions, making it challenging to …

3D printing of personalized thick and perfusable cardiac patches and hearts

N Noor, A Shapira, R Edri, I Gal, L Wertheim… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Generation of thick vascularized tissues that fully match the patient still remains an unmet
challenge in cardiac tissue engineering. Here, a simple approach to 3D‐print thick …

A liver-on-a-chip platform with bioprinted hepatic spheroids

NS Bhise, V Manoharan, S Massa, A Tamayol… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The inadequacy of animal models in correctly predicting drug and biothreat agent toxicity in
humans has resulted in a pressing need for in vitro models that can recreate the in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] A robust longitudinal co-culture of obligate anaerobic gut microbiome with human intestinal epithelium in an anoxic-oxic interface-on-a-chip

W Shin, A Wu, MW Massidda, C Foster… - … in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The majority of human gut microbiome comprises obligate anaerobic bacteria that exert
essential metabolic functions in the human colon. These anaerobic gut microbiomes …

Design and fabrication of a liver-on-a-chip platform for convenient, highly efficient, and safe in situ perfusion culture of 3D hepatic spheroids

LD Ma, YT Wang, JR Wang, JL Wu, XS Meng, P Hu… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Spheroid-based three-dimensional (3D) liver culture models, offering a desirable biomimetic
microenvironment, are useful for recapitulating liver functions in vitro. However, a user …

Millifluidic culture improves human midbrain organoid vitality and differentiation

E Berger, C Magliaro, N Paczia, AS Monzel, P Antony… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Human midbrain-specific organoids (hMOs) serve as an experimental in vitro model for
studying the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). In hMOs, neuroepithelial stem cells …

Establishment of physiologically relevant oxygen gradients in microfluidic organ chips

J Grant, E Lee, M Almeida, S Kim, N LoGrande… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In vitro models of human organs must accurately reconstitute oxygen concentrations and
gradients that are observed in vivo to mimic gene expression, metabolism, and host …

Direct on-chip differentiation of intestinal tubules from induced pluripotent stem cells

E Naumovska, G Aalderink, C Wong Valencia… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intestinal organoids have emerged as the new paradigm for modelling the healthy and
diseased intestine with patient-relevant properties. In this study, we show directed …

Post‐maturation reinforcement of 3D‐printed vascularized cardiac tissues

E Silberman, H Oved, M Namestnikov… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite advances in biomaterials engineering, a large gap remains between the weak
mechanical properties that can be achieved with natural materials and the strength of …