Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks

C O'Connor, E Brady, Y Zheng, E Moore… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The survival of vertebrate organisms depends on highly regulated delivery of oxygen and
nutrients through vascular networks that pervade nearly all tissues in the body …

Monocytes and macrophages in tissue repair: Implications for immunoregenerative biomaterial design

ME Ogle, CE Segar, S Sridhar… - … Biology and Medicine, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Monocytes and macrophages play a critical role in tissue development, homeostasis, and
injury repair. These innate immune cells participate in guiding vascular remodeling …

Macrophages of diverse phenotypes drive vascularization of engineered tissues

PL Graney, S Ben-Shaul, S Landau, A Bajpai… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Macrophages are key contributors to vascularization, but the mechanisms behind their
actions are not understood. Here, we show that diverse macrophage phenotypes have …

Macrophages: an inflammatory link between angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis

BA Corliss, MS Azimi, JM Munson, SM Peirce… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis often occur in response to tissue injury or in the
presence of pathology (eg, cancer), and it is these types of environments in which …

Non-classical monocytes are biased progenitors of wound healing macrophages during soft tissue injury

CE Olingy, CL San Emeterio, ME Ogle, JR Krieger… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Successful tissue repair requires the activities of myeloid cells such as monocytes and
macrophages that guide the progression of inflammation and healing outcome …

Engineering biomaterials to tailor the microenvironment for macrophage–endothelium interactions

Y Guan, L Racioppi, S Gerecht - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages and endothelial cells (ECs) have essential roles in physiological and
pathological conditions by regulating inflammation, vascularization and tissue remodelling …

Immunoengineering strategies to enhance vascularization and tissue regeneration

J Zarubova, MM Hasani-Sadrabadi, R Ardehali… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Immune cells have emerged as powerful regulators of regenerative as well as pathological
processes. The vast majority of regenerative immunoengineering efforts have focused on …

Drug delivery to macrophages: A review of nano-therapeutics targeted approach for inflammatory disorders and cancer

M Mukhtar, H Ali, N Ahmed, R Munir… - Expert Opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Macrophages are involved in the normal defense of the body; however, the
varying phenotypes of macrophages and imbalance in their ratio lead to the impairment of …

The immune system in tissue environments regaining homeostasis after injury: is “inflammation” always inflammation?

OP Kulkarni, J Lichtnekert, HJ Anders… - Mediators of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammation is a response to infections or tissue injuries. Inflammation was once defined by
clinical signs, later by the presence of leukocytes, and nowadays by expression of …

FNIP1 abrogation promotes functional revascularization of ischemic skeletal muscle by driving macrophage recruitment

Z Sun, L Yang, A Kiram, J Yang, Z Yang, L Xiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ischaemia of the heart and limbs attributable to compromised blood supply is a major cause
of mortality and morbidity. The mechanisms of functional angiogenesis remain poorly …