ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2021
Optical Clearing of Skeletal Muscle Bundles Engineered in 3-D Printed Templates.
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- Augmented 3D Printing for Multiscale Microphysiological Systems.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Benchtop Fabrication and Integration of Laser-Induced Graphene Strain Gauges and Stimulation Electrodes in Muscle on a Chip Devices.Advanced functional materials · 2025Article
- Human iPSC-Derived Motor Neuron Innervation Enhances the Differentiation of Muscle Bundles Engineered with Benchtop Fabrication Techniques.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Article
- Human iPSC-derived motor neuron innervation enhances the differentiation of muscle bundles engineered with benchtop fabrication techniques.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- In vitro formation and extended culture of highly metabolically active and contractile tissues.PloS one · 2023Article
- Modeling Patient-Specific Muscular Dystrophy Phenotypes and Therapeutic Responses in Reprogrammed Myotubes Engineered on Micromolded Gelatin Hydrogels.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Engineering skeletal muscle tissues with advanced maturity improves synapse formation with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motor neurons.APL bioengineering · 2021Article
- Replace and repair: Biomimetic bioprinting for effective muscle engineering.APL bioengineering · 2021Review
- Tools, techniques, and future opportunities for characterizing the mechanobiology of uterine myometrium.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Many techniques for engineering and interrogating three-dimensional (3-D) muscle bundles from animal- or patient-derived myoblasts have recently been developed to overcome the limitations of existing in vitro and in vivo model systems. However, many approaches for engineering 3-D muscle bundles rely on specialized and time-consuming techniques, such as photolithography for fabrication and cryosectioning for histology. Cryosectioning also limits visualization to a single plane instead of the entire 3-D structure. To address these challenges, we first implemented a consumer-grade 3-D-printer to rapidly prototype multiple templates for engineering muscle bundles. We then employed our templates to engineer 3D muscle bundles and identify template geometries that promoted bundle survival over three weeks. Subsequently, we implemented tissue clearing, immunostaining, and confocal imaging to acquire z-stacks of intact muscle bundles labelled for myogenic markers. With this approach, we could select the imaging plane on-demand and visualize the intact 3-D structure of bundles. However, tissue clearing did cause some tissue degradation that should be considered. Together, these advances in muscle tissue engineering and imaging will accelerate the use of these 3-D tissue platforms for disease modeling and therapeutic discovery.
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