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ArticleAdvanced functional materials2020

Nonmulberry Silk Based Ink for Fabricating Mechanically Robust Cardiac Patches and Endothelialized Myocardium-on-a-Chip Application.

Shreya Mehrotra, Bruna A G de Melo, Minoru Hirano, Wendy Keung, Ronald A Li, Biman B Mandal, Su Ryon Shin

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Article in Advanced functional materials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Selection of natural biomaterials for micro-tissue and organ-on-chip models.Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 5 countries.

Shreya MehrotraDivision of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Bruna A G de MeloDivision of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Minoru HiranoDivision of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Wendy KeungDr. Li Dak-Sum Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Ronald A LiDr. Li Dak-Sum Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Biman B MandalDepartment of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, Assam, India.
Su Ryon ShinDivision of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USMing Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine · HKIndian Institute of Technology Guwahati · IN

Funding

Oxygen generating bioinks for 3D printed bone implantsR01AR074234 · NIAMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHIN, SU RYON · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Microengineered scaffolds carrying patient-specific cells and growth factors for treatment of volumetric muscle lossR01AR073822 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI TAMAYOL, ALI · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Programmable multimaterial bioprinting of 3D vascularized tissue constructsR21EB026824 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHIN, SU RYON · 2018 to 2020
$685k
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR073822NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR074234NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB026824
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioprinting holds great promise towards engineering functional cardiac tissue constructs for regenerative medicine and as drug test models. However, it is highly limited by the choice of inks that require maintaining a balance between the structure and functional properties associated with the cardiac tissue. In this regard, we have developed a novel and mechanically robust biomaterial-ink based on non-mulberry silk fibroin protein. The silk-based ink demonstrated suitable mechanical properties required in terms of elasticity and stiffness (~40 kPa) for developing clinically relevant cardiac tissue constructs. The ink allowed the fabrication of stable anisotropic scaffolds using a dual crosslinking method, which were able to support formation of aligned sarcomeres, high expression of gap junction proteins as connexin-43, and maintain synchronously beating of cardiomyocytes. The printed constructs were found to be non-immunogenic

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GelMAhuman iPSC-derived cardiomyocytesorgan-on-a-chipprintingSilk

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PMID33071707
PMCPMC7566555
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