Fabrication and characterization of electrospun polycaprolactone and gelatin composite cuffs for tissue engineered blood vessels

HA Strobel, EL Calamari, A Beliveau… - … Research Part B …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sewing cuffs incorporated within tissue‐engineered blood vessels (TEBVs) enable graft
anastomosis in vivo, and secure TEBVs to bioreactors in vitro. Alternative approaches to cuff …

Covalent grafting of PEG and heparin improves biological performance of electrospun vascular grafts for carotid artery replacement

T Zhu, H Gu, H Zhang, H Wang, H Xia, X Mo, J Wu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid endothelialization of small-diameter vascular grafts remains a significant challenge in
clinical practice. In addition, compliance mismatch causes intimal hyperplasia and finally …

Electrospun tecophilic/gelatin nanofibers with potential for small diameter blood vessel tissue engineering

E Vatankhah, MP Prabhakaran, D Semnani… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering techniques particularly using electrospun scaffolds have been
intensively used in recent years for the development of small diameter vascular grafts …

Electrospun polyurethane vascular grafts: In vitro mechanical behavior and endothelial adhesion molecule expression

C Grasl, H Bergmeister, M Stoiber… - … Research Part A: An …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Engineered small diameter vascular grafts must closely match mechanical characteristics of
native vessels and exhibit stimulus‐responsive bioactivity. In this study, mechanical …

Hydrogel–electrospun mesh composites for coronary artery bypass grafts

RE McMahon, X Qu, AC Jimenez-Vergara… - … Engineering Part C …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential of hydrogel–electrospun mesh
hybrid scaffolds as coronary artery bypass grafts. The circumferential mechanical properties …

In Vivo Applications of Electrospun Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts: A Review

KA Rocco, MW Maxfield, CA Best, EW Dean… - … Engineering Part B …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
There is great clinical demand for synthetic vascular grafts with improved long-term efficacy.
The ideal vascular conduit is easily implanted, nonthrombogenic, biocompatible, resists …

Aligned electrospun scaffolds and elastogenic factors for vascular cell‐mediated elastic matrix assembly

CA Bashur, A Ramamurthi - Journal of tissue engineering and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Strategies to enhance the production of organized elastic matrix by smooth muscle cells
(SMCs) are critical in engineering functional vascular conduits. Therefore, the goal of this …

Development of biomimetic thermoplastic polyurethane/fibroin small‐diameter vascular grafts via a novel electrospinning approach

E Yu, HY Mi, J Zhang, JA Thomson… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A new electrospinning approach for fabricating vascular grafts with a layered,
circumferentially aligned, and micro‐wavy fibrous structure similar to natural elastic tissues …

Electrospun polyurethane-based vascular grafts: Physicochemical properties and functioning in vivo

AA Gostev, VS Chernonosova, IS Murashov… - Biomedical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
General physicochemical properties of the vascular grafts (VGs) produced from the solutions
of Tecoflex (Tec) with gelatin (GL) and bivalirudin (BV) by electrospinning are studied. The …

Mechano‐active scaffold design of small‐diameter artificial graft made of electrospun segmented polyurethane fabrics

T Matsuda, M Ihara, H Inoguchi, IK Kwon… - … Research Part A: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
To fabricate a “mechano‐active” tubular scaffold of nonwoven mesh‐type small‐diameter
artificial graft made of the synthetic durable elastomer, segmented polyurethane, the …