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ArticleACS biomaterials science & engineering2021

The Art of Engineering Biomimetic Cellular Microenvironments.

Ross C Bretherton, Cole A DeForest

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Article in ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 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

2 authors.

Ross C BrethertonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9567-8556
Cole A DeForestDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0337-3577

Funding

Mimicking, Exploiting, and Understanding Biology's Heterogeneity in 4DR35GM138036 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Cole A DeForest · 2020 to 2026
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138036
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells and their surrounding microenvironment exist in dynamic reciprocity, where bidirectional feedback and feedforward crosstalk drives essential processes in development, homeostasis, and disease. With the ongoing explosion of customizable biomaterial innovation for dynamic cell culture, an ever-expanding suite of user-programmable scaffolds now exists to probe cell fate in response to spatiotemporally controlled biophysical and biochemical cues. Here, we highlight emerging trends in these efforts, emphasizing strategies that offer tunability over complex network mechanics, present biomolecular cues anisotropically, and harness cells as physiochemical actuators of the pericellular niche. Altogether, these material advances will lead to breakthroughs in our basic understanding of how cells interact with, integrate signals from, and influence their surrounding microenvironment.

Indexed as

BiomimeticsCellular MicroenvironmentBiocompatible MaterialsCell Culture TechniquesCell DifferentiationBiocompatible Materialscell fatedynamic biomaterialshydrogelmicroenvironment

Identifiers

PMID33523625
PMCPMC8325697

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