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ArticleNature biomedical engineering2020

Intravital three-dimensional bioprinting.

Anna Urciuolo, Ilaria Poli, Luca Brandolino, Paolo Raffa, Valentina Scattolini, Cecilia Laterza, Giovanni G Giobbe, Elisa Zambaiti, Giulia Selmin, Michael Magnussen and 5 more

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Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
95citing papers in PubMed
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 212 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Two-Photon 3D Printing of Functional Microstructures Inside Living Cells.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  12. A Pill That Prints-An Ingestible Bioprinter for Non-Invasive Structured Bioink Deposition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Anna UrciuoloDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7571-9747
Ilaria PoliONYEL Biotech, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2275-8376
Luca BrandolinoDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Paolo RaffaVeneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0370-6108
Valentina ScattoliniVeneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy.
Cecilia LaterzaDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3964-3375
Giovanni G GiobbeUniversity College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6958-7303
Elisa ZambaitiDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Giulia SelminUniversity College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-5281
Michael MagnussenUniversity College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3054-9806
Laura BrigoVeneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6703-3921
Paolo De CoppiUniversity College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1659-0207
Stefano SalmasoDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4705-5909
Monica GiomoDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7690-1054
Nicola ElvassoreDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. n.elvassore@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7029-6287
University of Padua · ITGreat Ormond Street Hospital · GBVeneto Institute of Molecular Medicine · IT

Funding

Department of Health NIHR-RP-2014-04-046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) structures and functional tissues directly in live animals would enable minimally invasive surgical techniques for organ repair or reconstruction. Here, we show that 3D cell-laden photosensitive polymer hydrogels can be bioprinted across and within tissues of live mice, using bio-orthogonal two-photon cycloaddition and crosslinking of the polymers at wavelengths longer than 850 nm. Such intravital 3D bioprinting-which does not create by-products and takes advantage of commonly available multiphoton microscopes for the accurate positioning and orientation of the bioprinted structures into specific anatomical sites-enables the fabrication of complex structures inside tissues of live mice, including the dermis, skeletal muscle and brain. We also show that intravital 3D bioprinting of donor-muscle-derived stem cells under the epimysium of hindlimb muscle in mice leads to the de novo formation of myofibres in the mice. Intravital 3D bioprinting could serve as an in vivo alternative to conventional bioprinting.

Indexed as

BioprintingPrinting, Three-DimensionalAnimalsHydrogelsHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsInfrared RaysInjectionsMiceMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonTissue EngineeringHydrogels

Identifiers

PMID32572195
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