Cell-matrix mechanical interaction in electrospun polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering: Implications for scaffold design and performance

KM Kennedy, A Bhaw-Luximon, D Jhurry - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineered scaffolds produced by electrospinning of biodegradable polymers offer a 3D,
nanofibrous environment with controllable structural, chemical, and mechanical properties …

Vascularization of three-dimensional engineered tissues for regenerative medicine applications

JJ Kim, L Hou, NF Huang - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Engineering of three-dimensional (3D) tissues is a promising approach for restoring
diseased or dysfunctional myocardium with a functional replacement. However, a major …

Nb2C MXene-Functionalized Scaffolds Enables Osteosarcoma Phototherapy and Angiogenesis/Osteogenesis of Bone Defects

J Yin, S Pan, X Guo, Y Gao, D Zhu, Q Yang, J Gao… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Early surgical resection and chemotherapy of bone cancer are commonly used in the
treatment of bone tumor, but it is still highly challenging to prevent recurrence and fill the …

Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds

AL Carlson, NK Bennett, NL Francis, A Halikere… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cell replacement therapy with human pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons has the
potential to ameliorate neurodegenerative dysfunction and central nervous system injuries …

Enhanced Metastatic Potential in a 3D Tissue Scaffold toward a Comprehensive in Vitro Model for Breast Cancer Metastasis

GM Balachander, SA Balaji, A Rangarajan… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metastasis is clinically the most challenging and lethal aspect of breast cancer. While animal-
based xenograft models are expensive and time-consuming, conventional two-dimensional …

Developing defined substrates for stem cell culture and differentiation

L Hagbard, K Cameron, P August… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past few decades, a variety of different reagents for stem cell maintenance and
differentiation have been commercialized. These reagents share a common goal in …

Physical cues of cell culture materials lead the direction of differentiation lineages of pluripotent stem cells

A Higuchi, QD Ling, SS Kumar, Y Chang… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Both human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) from embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced
pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have the potential ability to differentiate into many different …

Design of polymeric materials for culturing human pluripotent stem cells: Progress toward feeder-free and xeno-free culturing

A Higuchi, QD Ling, SS Kumar, M Munusamy… - Progress in Polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
This review describes recent developments regarding the use of natural and synthetic
polymers to support the propagation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), human …

A chemically-defined plastic scaffold for the xeno-free production of human pluripotent stem cells

E Shimizu, H Iguchi, MNT Le, Y Nakamura… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Clinical use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) is hampered by the technical
limitations of their expansion. Here, we developed a chemically synthetic culture substrate …

Signals from the surface modulate differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells through glycosaminoglycans and integrins

PJ Wrighton, JR Klim, BA Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The fate decisions of human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells are governed by soluble and
insoluble signals from the microenvironment. Many hPS cell differentiation protocols use …