Strategies to capitalize on cell spheroid therapeutic potential for tissue repair and disease modeling

KH Griffin, SW Fok, J Kent Leach - NPJ Regenerative Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Cell therapies offer a tailorable, personalized treatment for use in tissue engineering to
address defects arising from trauma, inefficient wound repair, or congenital malformation …

Engineered biomaterials to guide spheroid formation, function, and fabrication into 3D tissue constructs

N Di Caprio, JA Burdick - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular spheroids are aggregates of cells that are being explored to address fundamental
biological questions and as building blocks for engineered tissues. Spheroids possess …

Gelatin methacryloyl hydrogel, from standardization, performance, to biomedical application

J He, Y Sun, Q Gao, C He, K Yao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA), a photocurable hydrogel, is widely used in 3D culture,
particularly in 3D bioprinting, due to its high biocompatibility, tunable physicochemical …

3D-biofabricated chondrocyte-laden decellularized extracellular matrix-contained gelatin methacrylate auxetic scaffolds under cyclic tensile stimulation for cartilage …

YW Chen, YH Lin, TL Lin, KXA Lee, MH Yu… - Biofabrication, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) hydrogel constructs can mimic features of the extracellular
matrix (ECM) and have tailorable physicochemical properties to support and maintain the …

Enhanced hepatotoxicity assessment through encapsulated HepG2 spheroids in gelatin hydrogel matrices: Bridging the gap from 2D to 3D culture

SY Park, WG Koh, HJ Lee - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional 2D drug screening often fails to accurately predict clinical outcomes. We
present an innovative approach to improve hepatotoxicity assessment by encapsulating …

3D bioprinted scaffolds based on functionalized gelatin for soft tissue engineering

I Nacu, M Bercea, LE Niță, CA Peptu… - Reactive and Functional …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D bioprinting application in the medical field requires optimized and adapted
bioinks/biomaterials, along with processing as scaffolds with morphology and structure that …

Microfluidics single-cell encapsulation reveals that poly-l-lysine-mediated stem cell adhesion to alginate microgels is crucial for cell-cell crosstalk and its self-renewal

H Soleymani, M Ghorbani, M Sedghi… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microfluidic cell encapsulation has provided a platform for studying the behavior of
individual cells and has become a turning point in single-cell analysis during the last …

[HTML][HTML] 3D bioprinted GelMA platform for the production of lung tumor spheroids

S Villata, M Canta, D Baruffaldi, I Roppolo, CF Pirri… - Bioprinting, 2023 - Elsevier
The study proposes a platform for the formation and culture of non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) spheroids, to obtain an in vitro model suitable for drug and therapy testing. To …

Free radical-scavenging composite gelatin methacryloyl hydrogels for cell encapsulation

GM Lee, S Kim, EM Kim, E Kim, S Lee, E Lee, HH Park… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels have been widely used for cell encapsulation in
tissue engineering due to their cell adhesiveness and biocompatibility. However, free …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro vascularization of 3D cell aggregates in microwells with integrated vascular beds

MG Fois, ZNT Birgani, C López-Iglesias, K Knoops… - Materials Today Bio, 2024 - Elsevier
Most human tissues possess vascular networks supplying oxygen and nutrients.
Engineering of functional tissue and organ models or equivalents often require the …