State-of-the-art techniques for imaging the vascular microenvironment in craniofacial bone tissue engineering applications.
State-of-the-art techniques for imaging the vascular microenvironment in craniofacial bone tissue engineering applications.
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用于颅面骨组织工程应用中血管微环境成像的最先进技术。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpcell.00195.2022
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2022
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Pathak,ArvindP
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Ren,Yunke;Senarathna,Janaka;Grayson,WarrenL;Pathak,ArvindP
Vascularization is a crucial step during musculoskeletal tissue regeneration via bioengineered constructs or grafts. Functional vasculature provides oxygen and nutrients to the graft microenvironment, facilitates wound healing, enhances graft integration with host tissue, and ensures the long-term survival of regenerating tissue. Therefore, imaging de novo vascularization (i.e., angiogenesis), changes in microvascular morphology, and the establishment and maintenance of perfusion within the graft site (i.e., vascular microenvironment or VME) can provide essential insights into engraftment, wound healing, as well as inform the design of tissue engineering (TE) constructs. In this review, we focus on state-of-the-art imaging approaches for monitoring the VME in craniofacial TE applications, as well as future advances in this field. We describe how cutting-edge in vivo and ex vivo imaging methods can yield invaluable information regarding VME parameters that can help characterize the effectiveness of different TE constructs and iteratively inform their design for enhanced craniofacial bone regeneration. Finally, we explicate how the integration of novel TE constructs, preclinical model systems, imaging techniques, and systems biology approaches could usher in an era of “image-based tissue engineering.”