Autonomous spheroid formation by culture plate compartmentation.

abstract：:We report on the fabrication of silicon-reinforced carbon (C:Si) structures by combinatorial pulsed laser deposition to search for the best design for a new generation of multi-functional coated implants. The synthesized films were characterized from the morphological, structural, compositional, mechanical and microbi...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Mihailescu IN,Bociaga D,Popescu-Pelin G,Stan GE,Duta L,Socol G,Chifiriuc MC,Bleotu C,Lazar V,Husanu MA,Zgura I,Miculescu F,Negut I,Hapenciuc C

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an alternative to conventional cell culture and animal testing, an organ-on-a-chip is applied to study the biological phenomena of organ development and disease, as well as the interactions between human tissues and external stimuli such as chemicals, forces and electricity. The pattern design of a microfluidic cha...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Mao M,He J,Lu Y,Li X,Li T,Zhou W,Li D

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in muscle tissue engineering is mimicking the ordered nanostructure of native collagen fibrils in muscles. Electrospun nanofiber constructs have been proposed as promising candidate alternatives to natural extracellular matrix. Here, we introduce a novel method to fabricate a two-dimension (2D) sheet...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Park SH,Koh UH,Kim M,Yang DY,Suh KY,Shin JH

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can be differentiated at high efficiency into cells of a targeting type but the resulting cell population has to be of high purity for clinical therapies to avoid teratomas. Herein, we report a microfluidic device with integrated and surface functionalised fishnet-like str...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Li X,Yu L,Li J,Minami I,Nakajima M,Noda Y,Kotera H,Liu L,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An important unsolved challenge in tissue engineering has been the inability to replicate the geometry and function of vascular networks and blood vessels. Here, we engineer a user-defined 3D microfluidic vascular channel using 3D printing-enabled hydrogel casting. First, a hollow L-shaped channel is developed using a...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Yang L,Shridhar SV,Gerwitz M,Soman P

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cultures for tissue engineering are traditionally prepared on two-dimensional or three-dimensional scaffolds with simple pores; however, this limits mass transportation, which is necessary for cell viability and function. In this paper, an innovative method is proposed for fabricating porous scaffolds with design...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Liu Y,Li X,Qu X,Zhu L,He J,Zhao Q,Wu W,Li D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium alginate hydrogels are widely used as biocompatible materials in a substantial number of biomedical applications. This paper reports on a hybrid 3D printing and electrodeposition approach for forming 3D calcium alginate hydrogels in a controllable manner. Firstly, a specific 3D hydrogel printing system is deve...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Shang W,Liu Y,Wan W,Hu C,Liu Z,Wong CT,Fukuda T,Shen Y

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Four-dimensional (4D) bioprinting of cell-laden constructs with programmable shape-morphing structures has gained increasing attention in the field of biofabrication and tissue engineering. Currently, most of the widely used materials for 4D printing, including N-isopropylacrylamide-based polymers, are not commonly us...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Luo Y,Lin X,Chen B,Wei X

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospun fibers of natural polymers are desirable for biomedical applications such as tissue engineering. Crosslinking of electrospun fibers of natural polymers is needed to prevent dissolution in water and to enhance mechanical strength. In this study, an in situ UV-crosslinking method was developed for crosslinki...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Lin WH,Tsai WB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omentum-based matrices fabricated by decellularization have the potential to serve as autologous scaffolds for tissue engineering. Transplantation of such scaffolds prepared from the patient's own biomaterial may reduce the immunogenic response after transplantation. Recently we reported on the potential of the decell...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Soffer-Tsur N,Shevach M,Shapira A,Peer D,Dvir T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a multi-material virtual prototyping (MMVP) system for modelling and digital fabrication of discrete and functionally graded multi-material objects for biomedical applications. The MMVP system consists of a DMMVP module, an FGMVP module and a virtual reality (VR) simulation module. The DMMVP modul...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Cheung HH,Choi SH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical consideration in tissue engineering is to recapitulate the microstructural organization of native tissues that is essential to their function. Scaffold-based techniques have focused on achieving this via the contact guidance principle wherein topographical cues offered by scaffold fibers direct migration an...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Chansoria P,Narayanan LK,Schuchard K,Shirwaiker R

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) tissue models are invaluable tools that can closely reflect the in vivo physiological environment. However, they are usually difficult to develop, have a low throughput and are often costly; limiting their utility to most laboratories. The recent availability of inexpensive additive manufacturin...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Flood P,Alvarez L,Reynaud EG

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet printing has been explored for a range of applications, including those to selectively deposit cellular material, due to the high accuracy and scalability of such systems when compared with alternative bioprinting techniques. Despite this, there remain considerable limitations when handling...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Dudman JPR,Ferreira AM,Gentile P,Wang X,Ribeiro RDC,Benning M,Dalgarno KW

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:How to pack materials into well-defined volumes efficiently has been a longstanding question of interest to physicists, material scientists, and mathematicians as these materials have broad applications ranging from shipping goods in commerce to seeds in agriculture and to spheroids in tissue engineering. How many mar...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Ren T,Steiger W,Chen P,Ovsianikov A,Demirci U

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A Caco-2 cell culture on Transwell, an alternative testing to animal or human testing used in evaluating drug intestinal permeability, incorrectly estimated the absorption of actively transported drugs due to the low expression of membrane transporters. Similarly, three-dimensional (3D) cultures of Caco-2 cells, which...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Shen C,Meng Q,Zhang G

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Current technologies for manufacturing of microfluidic devices include soft-lithography, wet and dry etching, thermoforming, micro-machining and three-dimensional (3D) printing. Among them, soft-lithography has been the mostly preferred one in medical and pharmaceutical fields due to its ability to generate polydimeth...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Ozbolat V,Dey M,Ayan B,Ozbolat IT

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma treatment is a method to modify the physicochemical properties of biomaterials, which consequently may affect interactions with cells. Based on the rationale that physical cues on the surface of culture substrates and implants, such as surface roughness, have proven to alter cell behaviour, we used electrospinn...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Nandakumar A,Tahmasebi Birgani Z,Santos D,Mentink A,Auffermann N,van der Werf K,Bennink M,Moroni L,van Blitterswijk C,Habibovic P

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major issues in tissue engineering has been the development of three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds, which serve as a structural template for cell growth and extracellular matrix formation. In scaffold-based tissue engineering, 3D printing (3DP) technology has been successfully applied for the fabrication of co...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Park JH,Jung JW,Kang HW,Cho DW

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering aims to create implantable biomaterials for the repair and regeneration of damaged tissues. In vitro tissue engineering is generally based on static culture, which limits access to nutrients and lacks mechanical signaling. Using shear stress is controversial because in some cases it can lead to cell...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Salinas EY,Aryaei A,Paschos N,Berson E,Kwon H,Hu JC,Athanasiou KA

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a novel application of TiO2 photocatalysis for modifying the cell affinity of a scaffold surface in a cell-culture environment. An as-deposited octadecyltrichlorosilane self-assembled monolayer (OTS SAM) on TiO2 was found to be hydrophobic and stably adsorbed serum albumins that blocked subsequent adsor...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Yamamoto H,Demura T,Morita M,Kono S,Sekine K,Shinada T,Nakamura S,Tanii T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell therapy represents a promising option for revascularization of ischemic tissues. However, injection of dispersed cells is not optimal to ensure precise homing into the recipient's vasculature. Implantation of cell-engineered scaffolds around the occluded artery may obviate these limitations. Here, we employed the...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Carrabba M,De Maria C,Oikawa A,Reni C,Rodriguez-Arabaolaza I,Spencer H,Slater S,Avolio E,Dang Z,Spinetti G,Madeddu P,Vozzi G

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabricating three-dimensional, biocompatible microenvironments to support functional tissue assembly remains a key challenge in cardiac tissue engineering. We hypothesized that since the omentum can be removed from patients by minimally invasive procedures, the obtained underlying matrices can be manipulated to serve ...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Shevach M,Soffer-Tsur N,Fleischer S,Shapira A,Dvir T

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, 3D bioprinting technologies are rapidly emerging in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as effective tools enabling the fabrication of advanced tissue constructs that can recapitulate in vitro organ/tissue functions. Selecting the best strategy for bioink deposition is often challenging...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Costantini M,Colosi C,Święszkowski W,Barbetta A

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospinning has been widely used to produce ultrafine fibers in microscale and nanoscale; however, traditional electrospinning processes are currently beset by troublesome limitations in fabrication of 3D periodic porous structures because of the chaotic nature of the electrospinning jet. Here we report a novel st...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Yuan H,Zhou Q,Li B,Bao M,Lou X,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue rings with incorporated microscaffolds have been engineered as promising building blocks for constructing biological tubes from the bottom up. However, the microscaffolds available for incorporation are very limited at present. In this paper we provide an efficient strategy to first incorporate microfluidic spu...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Sun T,Shi Q,Yao Y,Sun J,Wang H,Huang Q,Fukuda T

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The inkjet ejection technology used in printers has been adopted and research has been conducted on manufacturing artificial tissue by patterning cells through micronozzle ejection of small droplets containing multiple cells. However, stable injection of cells has proven difficult, owing to the frequent occurrence of ...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Yamaguchi S,Ueno A,Akiyama Y,Morishima K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pharmaceutical industry, new drugs are tested to find appropriate compounds for therapeutic purposes for contemporary diseases. Unfortunately, novel compounds emerge at expensive prices and current target evaluation processes have limited throughput, thus leading to an increase of cost and time for drug develop...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Rodríguez-Dévora JI,Zhang B,Reyna D,Shi ZD,Xu T

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few decades, 3D printing has played a significant role in fabricating scaffolds with consistent, complex structure that meet patient-specific needs in future clinical applications. Although many studies have contributed to this emerging field of additive manufacturing, which includes material development a...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Guo T,Holzberg TR,Lim CG,Gao F,Gargava A,Trachtenberg JE,Mikos AG,Fisher JP

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently emerged approach for tissue engineering is to biofabricate tissues using cellular spheroids as building blocks. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), can be cultured to generate large numbers of cells and can presumably...

journal_title：Biofabrication

authors： Lin H,Li Q,Lei Y

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00