Biomaterial strategies for engineering implants for enhanced osseointegration and bone repair

R Agarwal, AJ García - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Bone tissue has a remarkable ability to regenerate and heal itself. However, large bone
defects and complex fractures still present a significant challenge to the medical community …

Mesenchymal stromal cells: biology of adult mesenchymal stem cells: regulation of niche, self-renewal and differentiation

CM Kolf, E Cho, RS Tuan - Arthritis research & therapy, 2007 - Springer
Recent advances in understanding the cellular and molecular signaling pathways and
global transcriptional regulators of adult mesenchymal stem cells have provided new …

Materials roles for promoting angiogenesis in tissue regeneration

JH Lee, P Parthiban, GZ **, JC Knowles… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enabling angiogenesis is critical for the success of tissue repair therapies and the fate of
tissue-engineered constructs. Although many biochemical signaling molecules have been …

Effect of local sequential VEGF and BMP-2 delivery on ectopic and orthotopic bone regeneration

DHR Kempen, L Lu, A Hei**k, TE Hefferan… - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
Bone regeneration is a coordinated cascade of events regulated by several cytokines and
growth factors. Angiogenic growth factors are predominantly expressed during the early …

Angiogenesis in tissue engineering: breathing life into constructed tissue substitutes

MW Laschke, Y Harder, M Amon, I Martin… - Tissue …, 2006 - liebertpub.com
Long-term function of three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs depends on adequate
vascularization after implantation. Accordingly, research in tissue engineering has focused …

Uncertainty in the niches that maintain haematopoietic stem cells

MJ Kiel, SJ Morrison - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2008 - nature.com
Haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niches are specialized microenvironments that contain
stem cells and regulate their maintenance. Cells at the interface of bone and the bone …

Bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cells facilitate engineering of long-lasting functional vasculature

P Au, J Tam, D Fukumura… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Vascular tissue engineering requires a ready source of endothelial cells and perivascular
cells. Here, we evaluated human bone marrow–derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) …

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 …

Advanced gelatin-based vascularization bioinks for extrusion-based bioprinting of vascularized bone equivalents

A Leucht, AC Volz, J Rogal, K Borchers, PJ Kluger - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Bone tissue is highly vascularized. The crosstalk of vascular and osteogenic cells is not only
responsible for the formation of the strongly divergent tissue types but also for their …

Vascularized bone tissue engineering: approaches for potential improvement

LH Nguyen, N Annabi, M Nikkhah, H Bae… - … Engineering Part B …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Significant advances have been made in bone tissue engineering (TE) in the past decade.
However, classical bone TE strategies have been hampered mainly due to the lack of …