Large-scale perfused tissues via synthetic 3D soft microfluidics

S Grebenyuk, AR Abdel Fattah, M Kumar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The vascularization of engineered tissues and organoids has remained a major unresolved
challenge in regenerative medicine. While multiple approaches have been developed to …

Microphysiological engineering of self-assembled and perfusable microvascular beds for the production of vascularized three-dimensional human microtissues

J Paek, SE Park, Q Lu, KT Park, M Cho, JM Oh… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The vasculature is an essential component of the circulatory system that plays a vital role in
the development, homeostasis, and disease of various organs in the human body. The …

Generation of model tissues with dendritic vascular networks via sacrificial laser-sintered carbohydrate templates

IS Kinstlinger, SH Saxton, GA Calderon… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Sacrificial templates for patterning perfusable vascular networks in engineered tissues have
been constrained in architectural complexity, owing to the limitations of extrusion-based 3D …

The integration of 3-D cell printing and mesoscopic fluorescence molecular tomography of vascular constructs within thick hydrogel scaffolds

L Zhao, VK Lee, SS Yoo, G Dai, X Intes - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Developing methods that provide adequate vascular perfusion is an important step toward
engineering large functional tissues. Meanwhile, an imaging modality to assess the three …

[PDF][PDF] Rapid fabrication of bio‐inspired 3D microfluidic vascular networks

JH Huang, J Kim, N Agrawal, AP Sudarsan… - Advanced …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Living systems face a fundamental challenge of orchestrating exchange of nutrients and
oxygen throughout 3D space in order to satisfy their metabolic needs.[1] In nature, vascular …

Direct 3D bioprinting of prevascularized tissue constructs with complex microarchitecture

W Zhu, X Qu, J Zhu, X Ma, S Patel, J Liu, P Wang… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Living tissues rely heavily on vascular networks to transport nutrients, oxygen and metabolic
waste. However, there still remains a need for a simple and efficient approach to engineer …

Formation of microvascular networks in vitro

JP Morgan, PF Delnero, Y Zheng, SS Verbridge… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
This protocol describes how to form a 3D cell culture with explicit, endothelialized
microvessels. The approach leads to fully enclosed, perfusable vessels in a bioremodelable …

Multicellular vascularized engineered tissues through user‐programmable biomaterial photodegradation

CK Arakawa, BA Badeau, Y Zheng… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A photodegradable material‐based approach to generate endothelialized 3D vascular
networks within cell‐laden hydrogel biomaterials is introduced. Exploiting multiphoton …

3D printing of biomimetic vasculature for tissue regeneration

D Lei, Y Yang, Z Liu, B Yang, W Gong, S Chen… - Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the pivotal factors that limits the clinical applications of tissue engineering is the
inability to create complex three-dimensional (3D) tissues due to the lack of a long-range …

Perfusion and endothelialization of engineered tissues with patterned vascular networks

IS Kinstlinger, GA Calderon, MK Royse, AK Means… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As engineered tissues progress toward therapeutically relevant length scales and cell
densities, it is critical to deliver oxygen and nutrients throughout the tissue volume via …