Microfluidic bioprinting of tough hydrogel-based vascular conduits for functional blood vessels

D Wang, S Maharjan, X Kuang, Z Wang, LS Mille… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting of vascular tissues that are mechanically and
functionally comparable to their native counterparts is an unmet challenge. Here, we …

3D bioprinting-tunable small-diameter blood vessels with biomimetic biphasic cell layers

X Zhou, M Nowicki, H Sun, SY Hann… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Blood vessel damage resulting from trauma or diseases presents a serious risk of morbidity
and mortality. Although synthetic vascular grafts have been successfully commercialized for …

A highly printable and biocompatible hydrogel composite for direct printing of soft and perfusable vasculature-like structures

R Suntornnond, EYS Tan, J An, CK Chua - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Vascularization is one major obstacle in bioprinting and tissue engineering. In order to
create thick tissues or organs that can function like original body parts, the presence of a …

Direct 3D bioprinting of perfusable vascular constructs using a blend bioink

W Jia, PS Gungor-Ozkerim, YS Zhang, K Yue, K Zhu… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite the significant technological advancement in tissue engineering, challenges still
exist towards the development of complex and fully functional tissue constructs that mimic …

Engineering biofunctional in vitro vessel models using a multilayer bioprinting technique

J Schöneberg, F De Lorenzi, B Theek, A Blaeser… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advances in the field of bioprinting have led to the development of perfusable
complex structures. However, most of the existing printed vascular channels lack the …

3D bioprinting of vessel-like structures with multilevel fluidic channels

Q Gao, Z Liu, Z Lin, J Qiu, Y Liu, A Liu… - ACS biomaterials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this study, 3D hydrogel-based vascular structures with multilevel fluidic channels (macro-
channel for mechanical stimulation and microchannel for nutrient delivery and chemical …

Construction of multi-scale vascular chips and modelling of the interaction between tumours and blood vessels

J Nie, Q Gao, C Xie, S Lv, J Qiu, Y Liu, M Guo… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the substantial progress in the construction of vascular structures in the past few
years, building a whole blood circulatory system model containing both large vessels and …

3D bioprinted multicellular vascular models

KA Gold, B Saha, NK Rajeeva Pandian… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D bioprinting is an emerging additive manufacturing technique to fabricate
constructs for human disease modeling. However, current cell‐laden bioinks lack sufficient …

A novel strategy for creating tissue-engineered biomimetic blood vessels using 3D bioprinting technology

Y Xu, Y Hu, C Liu, H Yao, B Liu, S Mi - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this work, a novel strategy was developed to fabricate prevascularized cell-layer blood
vessels in thick tissues and small-diameter blood vessel substitutes using three-dimensional …

A multilayered microfluidic blood vessel-like structure

A Hasan, A Paul, A Memic, A Khademhosseini - Biomedical microdevices, 2015 - Springer
There is an immense need for tissue engineered blood vessels. However, current tissue
engineering approaches still lack the ability to build native blood vessel-like perfusable …