Fabrication of three-dimensional scaffolds for heterogeneous tissue engineering
Fabrication of three-dimensional scaffolds for heterogeneous tissue engineering
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DOI:
10.1007/s10544-010-9425-2
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发表时间:
2010-08-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Chen, Shaochen
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作者:
Han, Li-Hsin;Suri, Shalu;Chen, Shaochen
The development of biomedical scaffolds mimicking a heterogeneous cellular microenvironment for a specified regulation of cell-fates is very promising for tissue engineering. In this study, three-dimensional scaffolds with heterogeneous microstructure were developed using a DMD-PP apparatus. During the fabrication process, this apparatus can efficiently switch monomers to form microstructures with localized, different material properties; the resolution in the arrangement of material properties is comparable to the characteristic size of functional subunits in living organs, namely, a hundred microns. The effectiveness of this DMD-PP apparatus is demonstrated by a woodpile microstructure with heterogeneous fluorescence and also by a microporous cell-culturing scaffold with selected sites for protein adhesion. Cell-cultivation experiment was performed with the microporous scaffold, in which selective cell adhesion was observed.