ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2024
Self-Organization of Long-Lasting Human Endothelial Capillary-Like Networks Guided by DLP Bioprinting.
Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2024. 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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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Engineering heterogeneous tissues and organs via multi-material bioprinting: Advances, challenges, and opportunities.Acta biomaterialia · 2026Review
- Challenges and opportunities in generating microvasculature using bioprinting techniques.npj biomedical innovations · 2026Review
- Digital light processing bioprinting: bioink innovations and applications in tissue and organ regeneration.Journal of biological engineering · 2026Review
- Organoids: From Bench to Bedside Applications.MedComm · 2026Review
- Vascularized Cardiac Tissue Engineering: From Advances in Biofabrication to Translational Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Lithography-based 3D printing of hydrogels.Nature reviews bioengineering · 2025Article
- Light-based 3D bioprinting techniques for illuminating the advances of vascular tissue engineering.Materials today. Bio · 2024Review
- Self-Organization of Long-Lasting Human Endothelial Capillary-Like Networks Guided by DLP Bioprinting.Advanced healthcare materials · 2024Article
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Abstract
Tissue engineering holds great promise for regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and as an alternative to animal models. However, as soon as the dimensions of engineered tissue exceed the diffusion limit of oxygen and nutriments, a necrotic core forms leading to irreversible damage. To overcome this constraint, the establishment of a functional perfusion network is essential. In this work, digital light processing bioprinting is used to encapsulate endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in 3D light-cured hydrogel scaffolds to guide them toward vascular network formation. In these scaffolds, EPCs proliferate and self-organize within a few days into branched tubular structures with predefined geometry, forming capillary-like vascular tubes or trees of diameters in the range of 10 to 100 µm. Presenting a confluent monolayer wall of cells strongly connect by tight junctions around a central lumen-like space, these structures can be microinjected with a fluorescent dye and are stable for several weeks in vitro. These endothelial structures can be recovered and manipulated in an alginate patch without altering their shape or viability. This approach opens new opportunities for future applications, such as stacking with other cell sheets or multicellular constructs to yield bioengineered tissue with higher complexity and functionality.
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