Abstract:
:Type I collagen is a versatile biomaterial that is widely used in medical applications due to its weak antigenicity, robust biocompatibility, and its ability to be modified for a wide array of applications. As such, collagen has become a major component of many tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery platforms, and substrates for in vitro cell culture. In these applications, collagen constructs are fabricated to recapitulate a diverse set of conditions. Collagen fibrils can be aligned during or post-fabrication, cross-linked via numerous techniques, polymerized to create various fibril sizes and densities, and copolymerized into a wide array of composite scaffolds. Here, we review approaches that have been used to tune collagen to better recapitulate physiological environments for use in tissue engineering applications and studies of basic cell behavior. We discuss techniques to control fibril alignment, methods for cross-linking collagen constructs to modulate stiffness, and composite collagen constructs to better mimic physiological extracellular matrix.
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Phys Bioljournal_title
Physical biologyauthors
Hapach LA,VanderBurgh JA,Miller JP,Reinhart-King CAdoi
10.1088/1478-3975/12/6/061002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-12-21 00:00:00pages
061002issue
6eissn
1478-3967issn
1478-3975journal_volume
12pub_type
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