Electrospinning based on benign solvents: Current definitions, implications and strategies

J Avossa, G Herwig, C Toncelli, F Itel, RM Rossi - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrospinning evolved as a powerful technology to produce membranes consisting of
nano-to micron-scaled fibers offering unique membrane properties due to the extremely high …

Pushing the natural frontier: Progress on the integration of biomaterial cues toward combinatorial biofabrication and tissue engineering

CF Guimarães, AP Marques, RL Reis - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The engineering of fully functional, biological‐like tissues requires biomaterials to direct
cellular events to a near‐native, 3D niche extent. Natural biomaterials are generally seen as …

Maneuvering the migration and differentiation of stem cells with electrospun nanofibers

J Xue, D Pisignano, Y Xia - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospun nanofibers have been extensively explored as a class of scaffolding materials
for tissue regeneration, because of their unique capability to mimic some features and …

Crosslinked pullulan/cellulose acetate fibrous scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

D Atila, D Keskin, A Tezcaner - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2016 - Elsevier
Natural polymer based fibrous scaffolds have been explored for bone tissue engineering
applications; however, their inadequate 3-dimensionality and poor mechanical properties …

A newly identified mechanism involved in regulation of human mesenchymal stem cells by fibrous substrate stiffness

H Yuan, Y Zhou, MS Lee, Y Zhang, WJ Li - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Stiffness of biomaterial substrates plays a critical role in regulation of cell behavior. Although
the effect of substrate stiffness on cell behavior has been extensively studied, molecular …

Serum-free cultures: could they be a future direction to improve neuronal differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells?

G Schepici, A Gugliandolo, E Mazzon - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) are undifferentiated cells with multilinear potential,
known for their immunomodulatory and regenerative properties. Although the scientific …

Successful chondrogenesis within scaffolds, using magnetic stem cell confinement and bioreactor maturation

N Luciani, V Du, F Gazeau, A Richert, D Letourneur… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering strategies, such as cellularized scaffolds approaches, have been
explored for cartilage replacement. The challenge, however, remains to produce a …

Spatiotemporal oxygen sensing using dual emissive boron dye–polylactide nanofibers

DT Bowers, ML Tanes, A Das, Y Lin, NA Keane… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Oxygenation in tissue scaffolds continues to be a limiting factor in regenerative medicine
despite efforts to induce neovascularization or to use oxygen-generating materials …

[HTML][HTML] Young's modulus determination of normal and glaucomatous human iris

A Narayanaswamy, MH Nai… - … & visual science, 2019 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To evaluate the biomechanical properties (Young's modulus) of normal (control)
and glaucomatous human iris using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Methods: Iris tissue …

Aligned nanofiber topography directs the tenogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells

TL Popielarczyk, AS Nain, JG Barrett - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tendon is commonly injured, heals slowly and poorly, and often suffers re-injury after
healing. This is due to failure of tenocytes to effectively remodel tendon after injury to …