Bioprinting vasculature: materials, cells and emergent techniques

C Tomasina, T Bodet, C Mota, L Moroni… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite the great advances that the tissue engineering field has experienced over the last
two decades, the amount of in vitro engineered tissues that have reached a stage of clinical …

Mesenchymal stem and progenitor cells in regeneration: tissue specificity and regenerative potential

R Rohban, TR Pieber - Stem cells international, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
It has always been an ambitious goal in medicine to repair or replace morbid tissues for
regaining the organ functionality. This challenge has recently gained momentum through …

Macrophages of diverse phenotypes drive vascularization of engineered tissues

PL Graney, S Ben-Shaul, S Landau, A Bajpai… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Macrophages are key contributors to vascularization, but the mechanisms behind their
actions are not understood. Here, we show that diverse macrophage phenotypes have …

3D printing of microgel scaffolds with tunable void fraction to promote cell infiltration

AJ Seymour, S Shin… - Advanced healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Granular, microgel‐based materials have garnered interest as promising tissue engineering
scaffolds due to their inherent porosity, which can promote cell infiltration. Adapting these …

Microphysiological engineering of self-assembled and perfusable microvascular beds for the production of vascularized three-dimensional human microtissues

J Paek, SE Park, Q Lu, KT Park, M Cho, JM Oh… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The vasculature is an essential component of the circulatory system that plays a vital role in
the development, homeostasis, and disease of various organs in the human body. The …

[HTML][HTML] 3D bioprinting of prevascularised implants for the repair of critically-sized bone defects

J Nulty, FE Freeman, DC Browe, R Burdis, DP Ahern… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
For 3D bioprinted tissues to be scaled-up to clinically relevant sizes, effective
prevascularisation strategies are required to provide the necessary nutrients for normal …

Angiogenic effects and crosstalk of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and their extracellular vesicles with endothelial cells

S Rautiainen, T Laaksonen, R Koivuniemi - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (ASCs) are an adult stem cell population
able to self-renew and differentiate into numerous cell lineages. ASCs provide a promising …

Micro/nano-hierarchical scaffold fabricated using a cell electrospinning/3D printing process for co-culturing myoblasts and HUVECs to induce myoblast alignment and …

M Yeo, GH Kim - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Human skeletal muscle is composed of intricate anatomical structures, including uniaxially
arranged myotubes and widely distributed blood capillaries. In this regard, vascularization is …

Stromal vascular fraction technologies and clinical applications

I Andia, N Maffulli, N Burgos-Alonso - Expert opinion on biological …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The heterogeneous pool of cells found in the stromal vascular fraction of
adipose tissue (SVF) and the purified mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (ASCs) isolated from …

The adipose stromal vascular fraction as a complex cellular source for tissue engineering applications

VM Ramakrishnan, NL Boyd - Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, 2018 - liebertpub.com
A major challenge in tissue engineering is the generation of sufficient volumes of viable
tissue for organ transplant. The development of a stable, mature vasculature is required to …