Bringing new life to damaged bone: the importance of angiogenesis in bone repair and regeneration

S Stegen, N Van Gastel, G Carmeliet - Bone, 2015 - Elsevier
Bone has the unique capacity to heal without the formation of a fibrous scar, likely because
several of the cellular and molecular processes governing bone healing recapitulate the …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering vascularized and innervated bone biomaterials for improved skeletal tissue regeneration

A Marrella, TY Lee, DH Lee, S Karuthedom, D Syla… - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Blood vessels and nerve fibers are distributed throughout the entirety of skeletal tissue, and
play important roles during bone development and fracture healing by supplying oxygen …

It takes two: endothelial-perivascular cell cross-talk in vascular development and disease

M Sweeney, G Foldes - Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The formation of new blood vessels is a crucial step in the development of any new tissue
both during embryogenesis and in vitro models as without sufficient perfusion the tissue will …

A perspective on the clinical translation of scaffolds for tissue engineering

MJ Webber, OF Khan, SA Sydlik, BC Tang… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
Scaffolds have been broadly applied within tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to
regenerate, replace, or augment diseased or damaged tissue. For a scaffold to perform …

Matrix composition regulates three-dimensional network formation by endothelial cells and mesenchymal stem cells in collagen/fibrin materials

RR Rao, AW Peterson, J Ceccarelli, AJ Putnam… - Angiogenesis, 2012 - Springer
Co-cultures of endothelial cells (EC) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in three-
dimensional (3D) protein hydrogels can be used to recapitulate aspects of vasculogenesis …

Engineered cardiac tissue patch maintains structural and electrical properties after epicardial implantation

CP Jackman, AM Ganapathi, H Asfour, Y Qian… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Functional cardiac tissue engineering holds promise as a candidate therapy for myocardial
infarction and heart failure. Generation of “strong-contracting and fast-conducting” cardiac …

Skeletal regeneration for segmental bone loss: vascularised grafts, analogues and surrogates

B Dalisson, B Charbonnier, A Aoude, M Gilardino… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Massive segmental bone defects (SBD) are mostly treated by removing the fibula and
transplanting it complete with blood supply. While revolutionary 50 years ago, this remains …

Modeling the human bone marrow niche in mice: From host bone marrow engraftment to bioengineering approaches

A Abarrategi, SA Mian, D Passaro… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Xenotransplantation of patient-derived samples in mouse models has been instrumental in
depicting the role of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the establishment as well as …

Biomaterials in co-culture systems: towards optimizing tissue integration and cell signaling within scaffolds

KG Battiston, JWC Cheung, D Jain, JP Santerre - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Most natural tissues consist of multi-cellular systems made up of two or more cell types.
However, some of these tissues may not regenerate themselves following tissue injury or …

A low-speed centrifugation concept leads to cell accumulation and vascularization of solid platelet-rich fibrin: an experimental study in vivo

A Kubesch, M Barbeck, S Al-Maawi, A Orlowska… - Platelets, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) is generated from the patients' own venous blood by a single
centrifugation step without the additional use of anticoagulants. Based on the previously …