[HTML][HTML] Biofabrication and bioprinting using cellular aggregates, microtissues and organoids for the engineering of musculoskeletal tissues

R Burdis, DJ Kelly - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The modest clinical impact of musculoskeletal tissue engineering (TE) can be attributed, at
least in part, to a failure to recapitulate the structure, composition and functional properties of …

Modular tissue assembly strategies for biofabrication of engineered cartilage

BS Schon, GJ Hooper, TBF Woodfield - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2017 - Springer
This review describes the prospects of applying modular assembly techniques and
strategies for fabrication of advanced tissue engineered cartilage constructs. Articular …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial patterning of phenotypically distinct microtissues to engineer osteochondral grafts for biological joint resurfacing

R Burdis, F Chariyev-Prinz, DC Browe, FE Freeman… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Modular biofabrication strategies using microtissues or organoids as biological building
blocks have great potential for engineering replacement tissues and organs at scale. Here …

Automated 3D bioassembly of micro-tissues for biofabrication of hybrid tissue engineered constructs

NV Mekhileri, KS Lim, GCJ Brown, I Mutreja… - …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Bottom-up biofabrication approaches combining micro-tissue fabrication techniques with
extrusion-based 3D printing of thermoplastic polymer scaffolds are emerging strategies in …

Patterned, organoid-based cartilaginous implants exhibit zone specific functionality forming osteochondral-like tissues in vivo

GN Hall, WL Tam, KS Andrikopoulos, L Casas-Fraile… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Tissue engineered constructs have the potential to respond to the unmet medical need of
treating deep osteochondral defects. However, current tissue engineering strategies …

Impact of hydrogel stiffness on differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cell microspheroids

S Žigon-Branc, M Markovic, J Van Hoorick… - … Engineering Part A, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Hydrogels represent an attractive material platform for realization of three-dimensional (3D)
tissue-engineered constructs, as they have tunable mechanical properties, are compatible …

The Microwell-mesh: A high-throughput 3D prostate cancer spheroid and drug-testing platform

EO Mosaad, KF Chambers, K Futrega, JA Clements… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment following early diagnosis of Prostate cancer (PCa) is increasingly
successful, whilst the treatment of advanced and metastatic PCa remains challenging. A …

Inhibition of BMP signaling with LDN 193189 can influence bone marrow stromal cell fate but does not prevent hypertrophy during chondrogenesis

RAG Franco, E McKenna, PG Robey, MS Shajib… - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) cascades are upregulated during bone marrow-derived
stromal cell (BMSC) chondrogenesis, contributing to hypertrophy and preventing effective …

Tailored melt Electrowritten scaffolds for the generation of sheet‐like tissue constructs from multicellular spheroids

R McMaster, C Hoefner, A Hrynevich… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an additive manufacturing technology that is recently used to
fabricate voluminous scaffolds for biomedical applications. In this study, MEW is adapted for …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-culture of human mesenchymal stromal cells in spheroids facilitates chondrogenesis at a low total cell count upon embedding in biomaterials to generate …

F Staubli, MJ Stoddart, M D'Este, A Schwab - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Material-assisted cartilage tissue engineering has limited application in cartilage treatment
due to hypertrophic tissue formation and high cell counts required. This study aimed at …