Tissue engineering by using electrochemical approaches

该研究表明，通过电解吸烷烃硫醇自组装单层，细胞在5分钟内分离。与其他方法相比，这是最快速的细胞分离方法。这种电方法也可用于获取心肌细胞、成纤维细胞和肝细胞球体的细胞片。此外，这也适用于通过将细胞转移到水凝胶微通道的内表面来制造血管样结构。这种方法可以成为具有血管网络的组织工程的基本工具。

This study demonstrated that cells were detached within 5 min via electrical desorption of alkane thiol self-assembled monolayers. This is the most rapid cell detachment approach compared to other previous approaches. This electrical approach could also be used to harvest cell sheets of cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts, and hepatocyte spheroids. Furthermore, this was applicable to fabricate vascular-like structures, by transferring cells to the internal surface of microchannels in hydrogel. This approach can be a fundamental tool for engineering tissues with vascular networks.