Current progress in tendon and ligament tissue engineering

WL Lim, LL Liau, MH Ng, SR Chowdhury… - Tissue engineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Background: Tendon and ligament injuries accounted for 30% of all musculoskeletal
consultations with 4 million new incidences worldwide each year and thus imposed a …

Collagen scaffolds in cartilage tissue engineering and relevant approaches for future development

V Irawan, TC Sung, A Higuchi, T Ikoma - Tissue engineering and …, 2018 - Springer
Background: Cartilage tissue engineering (CTE) aims to obtain a structure mimicking native
cartilage tissue through the combination of relevant cells, three-dimensional scaffolds, and …

Biodegradable polymer nanocomposites for ligament/tendon tissue engineering

M Silva, FN Ferreira, NM Alves, MC Paiva - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Ligaments and tendons are fibrous tissues with poor vascularity and limited regeneration
capacity. Currently, a ligament/tendon injury often require a surgical procedure using auto-or …

[HTML][HTML] Natural, synthetic and commercially-available biopolymers used to regenerate tendons and ligaments

BS Heidari, R Ruan, E Vahabli, P Chen… - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Tendon and ligament (TL) injuries affect millions of people annually. Biopolymers play a
significant role in TL tissue repair, whether the treatment relies on tissue engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Tailoring micro/nano-fibers for biomedical applications

B Kong, R Liu, J Guo, L Lu, Q Zhou, Y Zhao - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Nano/micro fibers have evoked much attention of scientists and have been researched as
cutting edge and hotspot in the area of fiber science in recent years due to the rapid …

Biofabrication of electrospun scaffolds for the regeneration of tendons and ligaments

A Sensini, L Cristofolini - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tendon and ligament tissue regeneration and replacement are complex since scaffolds
need to guarantee an adequate hierarchical structured morphology, and non-linear …

Highly sensitive, anisotropic, and reversible stress/strain‐sensors from mechanochromic nanofiber composites

M Raisch, D Genovese, N Zaccheroni… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochromic polymeric systems are intensively investigated for real‐time stress
detection applications. However, an effective stress‐sensing material must respond to low …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical fibrous structures for muscle‐inspired soft‐actuators: A review

C Gotti, A Sensini, A Zucchelli, R Carloni… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Inspired by Nature, one of the most ambitious challenge in soft robotics is to design
actuators capable of reaching performances comparable to the skeletal muscles …

Layer-by-layer ultraviolet assisted extrusion-based (UAE) bioprinting of hydrogel constructs with high aspect ratio for soft tissue engineering applications

P Zhuang, WL Ng, J An, CK Chua, LP Tan - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
One of the major challenges in the field of soft tissue engineering using bioprinting is
fabricating complex tissue constructs with desired structure integrity and mechanical …

Microfluidic fabrication of biomimetic helical hydrogel microfibers for blood‐vessel‐on‐a‐chip applications

L Jia, F Han, H Yang, G Turnbull… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nature has created many perfect helical microstructures, including DNA, collagen fibrils, and
helical blood vessels, to achieve unique physiological functions. While previous studies …