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ArticleMacromolecular bioscience2025

Preclinical Testing of 3D Printed, Cell Loaded Hydrogel Based Corneal Substitutes on Rabbit Model.

Deniz Basoz, Aslihan Akalinli, Senem Buyuksungur, A R Cenk Celebi, Deniz Yucel, Nesrin Hasirci, Vasif Hasirci

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Article in Macromolecular bioscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Deniz BasozAcibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (ACU), Biomaterials R&D Center, Istanbul, 34752, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-4344-4053
Aslihan AkalinliAcibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (ACU), Biomaterials R&D Center, Istanbul, 34752, Türkiye.ORCID 0009-0000-3830-5078
Senem BuyuksungurMiddle East Technical University (METU), BIOMATEN, CoE in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Ankara, 06800, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0001-8438-8193
A R Cenk CelebiACU, School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul, 34752, Türkiye.
Deniz YucelAcibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (ACU), Biomaterials R&D Center, Istanbul, 34752, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-1373-5183
Nesrin HasirciMiddle East Technical University (METU), BIOMATEN, CoE in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Ankara, 06800, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-4497-0194
Vasif HasirciAcibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (ACU), Biomaterials R&D Center, Istanbul, 34752, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-3698-8861

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many people lose their vision due to corneal stroma injuries of the eye and the golden solution is transplantation of allografts from donors. Unfortunately, the limited availability of donor tissue, risk of disease transmission, and immune rejection are serious handicaps. However, implants made of biomaterials can be used as substitutes. In this study, cell-loaded and cell-free, methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) implants are 3D printed and tested under in vitro conditions. The samples are physically characterized for their printability, equilibrium water content, compressive mechanical strength, and transparency; they retained 60%-80% of light transmission in the visible region as in the native corneas. In brief, they are suitable for further testing. Then cell loaded samples are tested in vivo on New Zealand white rabbits for 90 days. In the in vivo tests, these cell loaded, disk shaped implants are almost completely degraded and allowed reorganization of the tissue forming at the implantation site. Also, the immune response initially observed decreased in time and by the end of 90 days the tissue regained its normal, healthy architecture with multilayered, non-keratinized epithelium. It can be concluded that the implants developed in this study are promising for clinical use in corneal stroma recovery.

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CorneaHydrogelsPrinting, Three-DimensionalAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsCorneal StromaGelatinMaterials TestingRabbitsBiocompatible MaterialsGelatinHydrogels3D printingbiomaterialscorneal stromahydrogelstissue engineering

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PMID40145466
PMCPMC12259405

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