ArticleMaterials today. Bio2019
Shape-defined solid micro-objects from poly(d,l-lactic acid) as cell-supportive counterparts in bottom-up tissue engineering.
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- Hollow pollen grains as scaffolding building blocks in bone tissue engineering.BioImpacts : BI · 2022Article
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- Modular Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering With Implantable Microcarriers and Canine Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
In bottom-up tissue engineering, small modular units of cells and biomaterials are assembled toward larger and more complex ones. In conjunction with a new implementation of this approach, a novel method to fabricate microscale objects from biopolymers by thermal imprinting on water-soluble sacrificial layers is presented. By this means, geometrically well-defined objects could be obtained without involving toxic agents in the form of photoinitiators. The micro-objects were used as cell-adhesive substrates and cell spacers in engineered tissues created by cell-guided assembly of the objects. Such constructs can be applied both for
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