Highly compliant biomimetic scaffolds for small diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) produced via melt electrowriting (MEW)

A Weekes, G Wehr, N Pinto, J Jenkins, Z Li… - …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
… of tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) have … grafts frequently failing due to poor
mechanical performance, in particular mismatched radial compliance. Herein, melt electrowriting (…

Hybrid Co‐Spinning and Melt Electrowriting Approach Enables Fabrication of Heterotypic Tubular Scaffolds Resembling the Non‐Linear Mechanical Properties of …

M Bartolf‐Kopp, L de Silva… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… peripheral arterial disease … vascular grafting, that is, blood vessel removal from one part
of the body and implantation into a damaged site. The current gold standard autologous grafts

Biofabrication of small diameter tissue-engineered vascular grafts

A Weekes, N Bartnikowski, N Pinto, J Jenkins… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
vascular tissue engineering, including 3D printing, bioprinting, electrospinning and melt
electrowriting… and functional requirements of human vasculature, while the efficacy of …

The Past, Present, and Future of Tubular Melt Electrowritten Constructs to Mimic Small Diameter Blood Vessels–A Stable Process?

M Bartolf‐Kopp, T Jungst - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… of this issue: A major problem is the continued patency, permeability of the inner lumen of
the graft during perfusion, of small diameter vascular grafts after implantation within the …

[HTML][HTML] Melt electrowriting of complex 3D anatomically relevant scaffolds

NT Saidy, T Shabab, O Bas… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… To assess the potential of this biomimetic design approach for vascular tissue engineering,
… polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) grafts, the gold-standard synthetic vascular grafts used in the …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of a mimetic vascular graft using melt spinning with tailorable fiber parameters

KA van Kampen, J Fernández-Pérez, M Baker… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - Elsevier
… during melt spinning. Furthermore, the method described here can create a vascular graft
with … Melt electrowriting (MEW) is more controllable, but still influenced by electrostatic buildup …

Heterotypic scaffold design orchestrates primary cell organization and phenotypes in cocultured small diameter vascular grafts

T Jungst, I Pennings, M Schmitz… - Advanced functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… A hybrid fabrication approach is introduced by combining solution electrospinning and melt
electrowriting. This allows a tissue-structure mimetic, hierarchically bilayered tubular scaffold…

Melt electrowritten scaffold architectures to mimic vasculature mechanics and control neo-tissue orientation

AS Federici, B Tornifoglio, C Lally, O Garcia, DJ Kelly… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… in this study, melt-electrowriting (MEW) was adopted to produce a range of fibrous grafts to
mimic … vascular grafts and provides a framework for vascular graft development and functional …

Convergence of melt electrowriting and extrusion-based bioprinting for vascular patterning of a myocardial construct

MJ Ainsworth, N Chirico, M de Ruijter… - …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
melt electrowriting for the fabrication of a myocardial construct with a precisely patterned
pre-vascular … hydrogel for the respective myocardial and vascular bioinks with collagen, Matrigel …

[HTML][HTML] Melt electrowritten scaffold architectures to mimic tissue mechanics and guide neo-tissue orientation

AS Federici, B Tornifoglio, C Lally, O Garcia… - journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
… adopted vascular grafts to bypass a stenosed/damaged vessel … Therefore, in this study,
melt-electrowriting (MEW) was … of the tunica media of the vasculature, in an attempt to match the …