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ArticleBiofabrication2022

Human gelatin-based composite hydrogels for osteochondral tissue engineering and their adaptation into bioinks for extrusion, inkjet, and digital light processing bioprinting.

Matthew L Bedell, Angelica L Torres, Katie J Hogan, Ziwen Wang, Bonnie Wang, Anthony J Melchiorri, K Jane Grande-Allen, Antonios G Mikos

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Article in Biofabrication, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Matthew L BedellDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Angelica L TorresDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Katie J HoganDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Ziwen WangDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Bonnie WangDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Anthony J MelchiorriNIBIB/NIH Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, United States of America.
K Jane Grande-AllenDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Antonios G MikosDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0709-990X
Rice University · USTissue Dynamics (Israel) · ILBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Training and Dissemination CoreP41EB023833 · NIBIB · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI FISHER, JOHN P · 2017 to 2021
$6.2M
3D-Printed Demineralized Bone Matrix Hydrogels for Craniofacial Bone Tissue Regeneration.F31DE030333 · NIDCR · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI HOGAN, KATIE · 2020 to 2022
$141k
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB023833NIDCR NIH HHS F31 DE030333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The investigation of novel hydrogel systems allows for the study of relationships between biomaterials, cells, and other factors within osteochondral tissue engineering. Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a popular research method that can allow for further interrogation of these questions via the fabrication of 3D hydrogel environments that mimic tissue-specific, complex architectures. However, the adaptation of promising hydrogel biomaterial systems into 3D-printable bioinks remains a challenge. Here, we delineated an approach to that process. First, we characterized a novel methacryloylated gelatin composite hydrogel system and assessed how calcium phosphate and glycosaminoglycan additives upregulated bone- and cartilage-like matrix deposition and certain genetic markers of differentiation within human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), such as RUNX2 and SOX9. Then, new assays were developed and utilized to study the effects of xanthan gum and nanofibrillated cellulose, which allowed for cohesive fiber deposition, reliable droplet formation, and non-fracturing digital light processing (DLP)-printed constructs within extrusion, inkjet, and DLP techniques, respectively. Finally, these bioinks were used to 3D print constructs containing viable encapsulated hMSCs over a 7 d period, where DLP printed constructs facilitated the highest observed increase in cell number over 7 d (∼2.4×). The results presented here describe the promotion of osteochondral phenotypes via these novel composite hydrogel formulations, establish their ability to bioprint viable, cell-encapsulating constructs using three different 3D printing methods on multiple bioprinters, and document how a library of modular bioink additives affected those physicochemical properties important to printability.

Indexed as

BioprintingGelatinHumansHydrogelsPrinting, Three-DimensionalTissue EngineeringTissue ScaffoldsGelatinHydrogels3D printingbioinksbioprintingbone tissue engineeringcartilage tissue engineeringhuman mesenchymal stem cellshuman methacrylated gelatin

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PMID35931060
PMCPMC9633045
OpenAlexW4290098948

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