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ArticleScientific reports2019

A standalone bioreactor system to deliver compressive load under perfusion flow to hBMSC-seeded 3D chitosan-graphene templates.

Joseph Lovecchio, Paolo Gargiulo, Jose Luis Vargas Luna, Emanuele Giordano, Ólafur Eysteinn Sigurjónsson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Joseph LovecchioInstitute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Reykjavík University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykiavík, Iceland. joseph.lovecchio@unibo.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4721-1388
Paolo GargiuloInstitute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Reykjavík University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykiavík, Iceland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-4817
Jose Luis Vargas LunaInstitute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Reykjavík University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykiavík, Iceland.
Emanuele GiordanoLaboratory of Cellular and Molecular Engineering "Silvio Cavalcanti" - Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" (DEI), University of Bologna, Via Cesare Pavese 50, 47522, Cesena, FC, Italy.
Ólafur Eysteinn SigurjónssonInstitute of Biomedical and Neural Engineering, Reykjavík University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykiavík, Iceland.
Reykjavík University · ISTechnologies pour la Santé · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of engineered biological tissues holds great potential for both clinical applications and basic research in a life science laboratory. A prototype standalone perfusion/compression bioreactor system was proposed to address the osteogenic commitment of stem cells seeded onboard of 3D chitosan-graphene (CHT/G) templates. Testing involved the coordinated administration of a 1 mL/min medium flow rate together with dynamic compression (1% strain at 1 Hz; applied twice daily for 30 min) for one week. When compared to traditional static culture conditions, the application of perfusion and compression stimuli to human bone marrow stem cells using the 3D CHT/G template scaffold induced a sizable effect. After using the dynamic culture protocol, there was evidence of a larger number of viable cells within the inner core of the scaffold and of enhanced extracellular matrix mineralization. These observations show that our novel device would be suitable for addressing and investigating the osteogenic phenotype commitment of stem cells, for both potential clinical applications and basic research.

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BioreactorsBiomechanical PhenomenaCell Culture TechniquesCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedChitosanExtracellular MatrixGraphiteHumansMechanotransduction, CellularMesenchymal Stem CellsPerfusionRheologyTissue EngineeringTissue ScaffoldsChitosanGraphite

Identifiers

PMID31728040
PMCPMC6856067
OpenAlexW2986378872

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