Organ printing: tissue spheroids as building blocks

V Mironov, RP Visconti, V Kasyanov, G Forgacs… - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
Organ printing can be defined as layer-by-layer additive robotic biofabrication of three-
dimensional functional living macrotissues and organ constructs using tissue spheroids as …

Direct‐write bioprinting three‐dimensional biohybrid systems for future regenerative therapies

CC Chang, ED Boland, SK Williams… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Regenerative medicine seeks to repair or replace dysfunctional tissues with engineered
biological or biohybrid systems. Current clinical regenerative models utilize simple uniform …

[HTML][HTML] Microvessels support engraftment and functionality of human islets and hESC-derived pancreatic progenitors in diabetes models

Y Aghazadeh, F Poon, F Sarangi, FTM Wong, ST Khan… - Cell Stem Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Islet transplantation is a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D), yet the low donor
pool, poor islet engraftment, and life-long immunosuppression prevent it from becoming the …

[HTML][HTML] 3D biofabrication of vascular networks for tissue regeneration: a report on recent advances

MD Sarker, S Naghieh, NK Sharma, X Chen - Journal of pharmaceutical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid progress in tissue engineering research in past decades has opened up vast
possibilities to tackle the challenges of generating tissues or organs that mimic native …

Engineering robust and functional vascular networks in vivo with human adult and cord blood–derived progenitor cells

JM Melero-Martin, ME De Obaldia, SY Kang… - Circulation …, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
The success of therapeutic vascularization and tissue engineering will rely on our ability to
create vascular networks using human cells that can be obtained readily, can be expanded …

Three-dimensional bioassembly tool for generating viable tissue-engineered constructs

CM Smith, AL Stone, RL Parkhill, RL Stewart… - Tissue …, 2004 - liebertpub.com
The primary emphasis of tissue engineering is the design and fabrication of constructs for
the replacement of nonfunctional tissue. Because tissue represents a highly organized …

In vivo vasculogenic potential of human blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells

JM Melero-Martin, ZA Khan, A Picard… - Blood, The Journal …, 2007 - ashpublications.org
Vascularization of tissues is a major challenge of tissue engineering (TE). We hypothesize
that blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have the required proliferative and …

Robust functional vascular network formation in vivo by cooperation of adipose progenitor and endothelial cells

DO Traktuev, DN Prater, S Merfeld-Clauss… - Circulation …, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
Rapid induction and maintenance of blood flow through new vascular networks is essential
for successfully treating ischemic tissues and maintaining function of engineered neo …

Bone tissue regeneration in the oral and maxillofacial region: a review on the application of stem cells and new strategies to improve vascularization

V Wu, MN Helder, N Bravenboer… - Stem cells …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bone tissue engineering techniques are a promising alternative for the use of autologous
bone grafts to reconstruct bone defects in the oral and maxillofacial region. However, for …

Engineered vascularized bone grafts

O Tsigkou, I Pomerantseva… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Clinical protocols utilize bone marrow to seed synthetic and decellularized allogeneic bone
grafts for enhancement of scaffold remodeling and fusion. Marrow-derived cytokines induce …