Skin tissue engineering—in vivo and in vitro applications

F Groeber, M Holeiter, M Hampel, S Hinderer… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2011 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been made over the years in the development of in vitro-
engineered substitutes that mimic human skin, either to be used as grafts for the …

The human epidermal basement membrane: a shaped and cell instructive platform that aging slowly alters

E Roig-Rosello, P Rousselle - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the most important functions of skin is to act as a protective barrier. To fulfill this role,
the structural integrity of the skin depends on the dermal-epidermal junction—a complex …

Hydrogel dressings with intrinsic antibiofilm and antioxidative dual functionalities accelerate infected diabetic wound healing

D Pranantyo, CK Yeo, Y Wu, C Fan, X Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic wounds are often infected with biofilm bacteria and characterized by high oxidative
stress. Current dressings that promote chronic wound healing either require additional …

The pivotal role of vascularization in tissue engineering

FA Auger, L Gibot, D Lacroix - Annual review of biomedical …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Vascularization is one of the great challenges that tissue engineering faces in order to
achieve sizeable tissue and organ substitutes that contain living cells. There are instances …

Human in vitro skin models for wound healing and wound healing disorders

E Hofmann, J Fink, AL Pignet, A Schwarz… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Skin wound healing is essential to health and survival. Consequently, high amounts of
research effort have been put into investigating the cellular and molecular components …

Dermal fibroblast infiltration of poly (ε-caprolactone) scaffolds fabricated by melt electrospinning in a direct writing mode

BL Farrugia, TD Brown, Z Upton, DW Hutmacher… - …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Melt electrospinning in a direct writing mode is a recent additive manufacturing approach to
fabricate porous scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. In this study, we describe …

Design of hydrogel-based scaffolds for in vitro three-dimensional human skin model reconstruction

SH Tan, DAC Chua, JRJ Tang, C Bonnard… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
In vitro three-dimensional (3D) skin tissue models are critical tools in advancing our
understanding of basic skin physiology and function as well as in specific applications such …

Skin tissue substitutes and biomaterial risk assessment and testing

H Savoji, B Godau, MS Hassani… - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tremendous progress has been made over the past few decades to develop skin substitutes
for the management of acute and chronic wounds. With the advent of tissue engineering and …

Tissue engineered human skin equivalents

Z Zhang, BB Michniak-Kohn - Pharmaceutics, 2012 - mdpi.com
Human skin not only serves as an important barrier against the penetration of exogenous
substances into the body, but also provides a potential avenue for the transport of functional …

Development of a Full-Thickness Human Skin Equivalent In Vitro Model Derived from TERT-Immortalized Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts

CMA Reijnders, A van Lier, S Roffel… - … Engineering Part A, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Currently, human skin equivalents (HSEs) used for in vitro assays (eg, for wound healing)
make use of primary human skin cells. Limitations of primary keratinocytes and fibroblasts …