ArticleiScience2023
A multi-well bioreactor for cartilage tissue engineering experiments.
Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- Modulating mesenchymal stromal cells chondrogenesis through TGF-β1 pre-conditioning during monolayer expansion in pellet culture and in a 3D mechanical load model.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Recapitulating Endochondral Ossification for Bone Repair: From Development to Engineering Strategy.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- Role of external forces in the mechanobiology of stem and differentiated chondrogenic cells embedded in a tissue-engineered construct for cartilage repair.Journal of biomedical science · 2026Review
- Overcoming challenges in cartilage regeneration: The role of chondrogenic inducers.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Review
- Mechanobiology-based strategies for the maturation of biofabricated cartilage constructs.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Conditioned Media from Mechanically Stimulated Macrophages Upregulate Osteogenic Genes in Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025Article
- Chondrogenic Maturation Governs hMSC Mechanoresponsiveness to Dynamic Compression.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Phenotypic alterations in articulating joint cells: Role of mechanically loaded MSC secretome.Heliyon · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cartilage tissue engineering necessitates the right mechanical cues to regenerate impaired tissue. For this reason, bioreactors can be employed to induce joint-relevant mechanical loading, such as compression and shear. However, current articulating joint bioreactor designs are lacking in terms of sample size and usability. In this paper, we describe a new, simple-to-build and operate, multi-well kinematic load bioreactor and investigate its effect on the chondrogenic differentiation of human bone marrow-derived stem cells (MSCs). We seeded MSCs into a fibrin-polyurethane scaffold and subsequently exposed the samples to a combination of compression and shear for 25 days. The mechanical loading activates transforming growth factor beta 1, upregulates chondrogenic genes, and increases sulfated glycosaminoglycan retention within the scaffolds. Such a higher-throughput bioreactor could be operated in most cell culture laboratories, dramatically accelerating and improving the testing of cells, new biomaterials, and tissue-engineered constructs.
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