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ReviewDevelopmental cell2021

Harnessing Mechanobiology for Tissue Engineering.

Sudong Kim, Marina Uroz, Jennifer L Bays, Christopher S Chen

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Review in Developmental cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sudong KimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and the Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Marina UrozDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and the Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jennifer L BaysDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and the Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Christopher S ChenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and the Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA; The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: chencs@bu.edu.

Funding

REGULATION OF ANGIOGENESIS BY MICROENVIRONMENTAL CUESR01EB000262 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI CHEN, CHRISTOPHER S · 2002 to 2023
$6.2M
Engineering Multicellular Tissue Structure, Function, and VascularizationR01EB008396 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BHATIA, SANGEETA N., CHEN, CHRISTOPHER S · 2009 to 2018
$5.8M
Multi-tissue platform for modeling systemic pathologiesUH3EB025765 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI VUNJAK-NOVAKOVIC, GORDANA · 2019 to 2021
$4.0M
Organ Design and Engineering Training Program (ODET Program)T32EB016652 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BONVENTRE, JOSEPH VINCENT · 2014 to 2023
$3.5M
Notch signaling and adhesion regulationR01HL147585 · NHLBI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI CHEN, CHRISTOPHER S · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Notch in the VasculatureF32HL154664 · NHLBI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI BAYS, JENNIFER · 2020 to 2020
$67k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL154664NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL147585NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB000262NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB008396NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB016652NIBIB NIH HHS UH3 EB025765
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A primary challenge in tissue engineering is to recapitulate both the structural and functional features of whole tissues and organs. In vivo, patterning of the body plan and constituent tissues emerges from the carefully orchestrated interactions between the transcriptional programs that give rise to cell types and the mechanical forces that drive the bending, twisting, and extensions critical to morphogenesis. Substantial recent progress in mechanobiology-understanding how mechanics regulate cell behaviors and what cellular machineries are responsible-raises the possibility that one can begin to use these insights to help guide the strategy and design of functional engineered tissues. In this perspective, we review and propose the development of different approaches, from providing appropriate extracellular mechanical cues to interfering with cellular mechanosensing machinery, to aid in controlling cell and tissue structure and function.

Indexed as

BiophysicsCell DifferentiationMechanotransduction, CellularMorphogenesisAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansTissue Engineeringcytoskeleton and adhesionmechanical environmentmechanobiologytissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID33453155
PMCPMC7855912

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