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ArticleTissue engineering. Part C, Methods2020

Fabrication of Bioactive Inverted Colloidal Crystal Scaffolds Using Expanded Polystyrene Beads.

Ryan Carpenter, Dalton Macres, Jun-Goo Kwak, Katherine Daniel, Jungwoo Lee

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Article in Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors.

Ryan CarpenterDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Dalton MacresDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Jun-Goo KwakMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Katherine DanielDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Jungwoo LeeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Funding

Implantable pre-metastatic niche to elucidate the impact of chemotherapy-induced metastatic relapseR01CA237171 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI LEE, JUNGWOO · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
Elucidating Essential Components of Bone Marrow MetastasisR00CA163671 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI LEE, JUNGWOO · 2014 to 2016
$740k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA163671NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inverted colloidal crystal (ICC) hydrogel scaffolds have emerged as a new class of three-dimensional cell culture matrix that represents a unique opportunity to reproduce lymphoid tissue microenvironments. ICC geometry promotes the formation of stromal cell networks and their interaction with hematopoietic cells, a core cellular process in lymphoid tissues. When subdermally implanted, ICC hydrogel scaffolds direct unique foreign body responses to form a vascularized stromal tissue with prolonged attraction of hematopoietic cells, which together resemble lymphoid tissue microenvironments. While conceptually simple, fabrication of ICC hydrogel scaffold requires multiple steps and laborious handling of delicate materials. Here, we introduce a facile route for ICC hydrogel scaffold fabrication using expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads. EPS beads shrink and fuse in a tunable manner under pressurized thermal conditions, which serves as colloidal crystal templates for ICC scaffold fabrication. Inclusion of collagen in the precursor solution greatly simplified preparation of bioactive hydrogel scaffolds. The resultant EPS-templated bioactive ICC hydrogel scaffolds demonstrate characteristic features required for lymphoid tissue modeling in both

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MicrospheresAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsCellular MicroenvironmentCollagen Type IColloidsCrystallizationHydrogelsLymphoid TissuePolystyrenesRatsTissue ScaffoldsBiocompatible MaterialsCollagen Type IColloidsHydrogelsPolystyrenesbioactive hydrogelexpanded polystyrene beadsimplantable biomaterialsinverted colloidal crystal scaffoldlymphoid tissue modeling

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PMID32031058
PMCPMC7099427

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