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ArticleGels (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Printing Structurally Anisotropic Biocompatible Fibrillar Hydrogel for Guided Cell Alignment.

Zhengkun Chen, Nancy Khuu, Fei Xu, Sina Kheiri, Ilya Yakavets, Faeze Rakhshani, Sofia Morozova, Eugenia Kumacheva

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Article in Gels (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. 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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8citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhengkun ChenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2265-6057
Nancy KhuuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.
Fei XuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2660-5211
Sina KheiriDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9934-4297
Ilya YakavetsDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0373-5160
Faeze RakhshaniDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.
Sofia MorozovaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8680-3653
Eugenia KumachevaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5942-3890
University of Toronto · CABauman Moscow State Technical University · RU

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many fibrous biological tissues exhibit structural anisotropy due to the alignment of fibers in the extracellular matrix. To study the impact of such anisotropy on cell proliferation, orientation, and mobility, it is important to recapitulate and achieve control over the structure of man-made hydrogel scaffolds for cell culture. Here, we report a chemically crosslinked fibrous hydrogel due to the reaction between aldehyde-modified cellulose nanofibers and gelatin. We explored two ways to induce structural anisotropy in this gel by extruding the hydrogel precursor through two different printheads. The cellulose nanofibers in the hydrogel ink underwent shear-induced alignment during extrusion and retained it in the chemically crosslinked hydrogel. The degree of anisotropy was controlled by the ink composition and extrusion flow rate. The structural anisotropy of the hydrogel extruded through a nozzle affected the orientation of human dermal fibroblasts that were either seeded on the hydrogel surface or encapsulated in the extruded hydrogel. The reported straightforward approach to constructing fibrillar hydrogel scaffolds with structural anisotropy can be used in studies of the biological impact of tissue anisotropy.

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3D printingalignmentanisotropycellulose nanofiberhydrogels

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PMID36354593
PMCPMC9689575
OpenAlexW4307369811

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