Lacrimal gland regeneration: The unmet challenges and promise for dry eye therapy

I Veernala, J Jaffet, J Fried, S Mertsch, S Schrader… - The Ocular Surface, 2022 - Elsevier
Dry eye disease (DED) is a common multifactorial disease of the tear film and the ocular
surface. The problem of DED has gained attention globally, with millions of people affected …

Silk-based nano-hydrogels for futuristic biomedical applications

S Zhang, SAM Shah, K Basharat, SA Qamar… - Journal of drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Silk proteins have attracted much scientific attention due to their potential to design novel
biomaterials for biomedical applications, including drug delivery systems, tissue …

Photo-crosslinkable hydrogels for 3d bioprinting in the repair of osteochondral defects: A review of present applications and future perspectives

G Tan, J Xu, Q Yu, J Zhang, X Hu, C Sun, H Zhang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
An osteochondral defect is a common and frequent disease in orthopedics and treatment
effects are not good, which can be harmful to patients. Hydrogels have been applied in the …

The effect of blending poly (l-lactic acid) on in vivo performance of 3D-printed poly (l-lactide-co-caprolactone)/PLLA scaffolds

R Duan, Y Wang, D Su, Z Wang, Y Zhang, B Du… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Blending poly (l-lactic acid, PLLA) with poly (l-lactide-co-caprolactone, PLCL) is an effective
strategy for developing new PLCL/PLLA blend based biomaterials. However, the effect of …

The emerging role of 3D-printing in ocular drug delivery: Challenges, current status, and future prospects

U Garg, N Jain, S Kaul, VK Rai, M Pandey… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The era of the 3D printing technique emerged in 1986. With the advancement of technology,
3D printing analysis has gained massive attention and become widely used in recent years …

Tissues and organ printing: An evolution of technology and materials

G Singh, S Singh, R Kumar, C Parkash… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Since its beginnings, three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology has been successful
because of ongoing advances in operating principles, the range of materials and cost …

Photoacoustic imaging of 3D-printed vascular networks

C Ma, W Li, D Li, M Chen, M Wang, L Jiang… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Thrombosis in the circulation system can lead to major myocardial infarction and
cardiovascular deaths. Understanding thrombosis formation is necessary for developing …

Building valveless impedance pumps from biological components: Progress and challenges

N Sarvazyan - Frontiers in physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Valveless pumping based on Liebau mechanism entails asymmetrical positioning of the
compression site relative to the attachment sites of the pump's elastic segment to the rest of …

Design and fabrication of mature engineered pre-cardiac tissue utilizing 3D bioprinting technology and enzymatically crosslinking hydrogel

S Iwanaga, Y Hamada, Y Tsukamoto, K Arai, T Kurooka… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The fabrication of mature engineered cardiac tissue is one of the major challenges in
cardiac tissue engineering. For this purpose, we attempted to apply the 3D bioprinting …

Tissue engineering microtissue: construction, optimization, and application

J Zhang, W Xu, C Li, F Meng, Y Guan, X Liu… - … Engineering Part B …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Until now, there is no clear definition of microtissue; it usually refers to the microtissue
formed by the aggregation of seed cells under the action of cell–cell or cell–extracellular …