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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering

Microvascular fragment spheroids: Three-dimensional vascularization units for tissue engineering and regeneration.

Lisa Nalbach, Danièle Müller, Selina Wrublewsky, Wolfgang Metzger, Michael D Menger, Matthias W Laschke, Emmanuel Ampofo

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Article in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Vascularized Tissue Organoids.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  13. Methods for vascularization and perfusion of tissue organoids.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2022
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7 authors.

Lisa NalbachInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Danièle MüllerInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Selina WrublewskyInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Wolfgang MetzgerDepartment of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Michael D MengerInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Matthias W LaschkeInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7847-8456
Emmanuel AmpofoInstitute for Clinical & Experimental Surgery, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1886-5657

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adipose tissue-derived microvascular fragments (MVF) serve as vascularization units in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Because a three-dimensional cellular arrangement has been shown to improve cell function, we herein generated for the first time MVF spheroids to investigate whether this further increases their vascularization potential. These spheroids exhibited a morphology, size, and viability comparable to that of previously introduced stromal vascular fraction (SVF) spheroids. However, MVF spheroids contained a significantly higher number of CD31-positive endothelial cells and α-smooth muscle actin (SMA)-positive perivascular cells, resulting in an enhanced angiogenic sprouting activity. Accordingly, they also exhibited an improved in vivo vascularization and engraftment after transplantation into mouse dorsal skinfold chambers. These findings indicate that MVF spheroids are superior to SVF spheroids and, thus, may be highly suitable to improve the vascularization of tissue defects and implanted tissue constructs.

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angiogenesisMicrovascular fragmentsspheroidstromal vascular fractiontissue engineeringvascularization

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PMID34471514
PMCPMC8404660

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