Hierarchical Design of Tissue Regenerative Constructs

The worldwide shortage of organs fosters significant advancements in regenerative therapies. Tissue engineering and regeneration aim to supply or repair organs or tissues by combining material scaffolds, biochemical signals, and cells. The greatest challenge entails the creation of a suitable implan...

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Published in:Advanced healthcare materials 2018-03, Vol.7 (6), p.e1701067-n/a
Main Authors: Rose, Jonas C., De Laporte, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
anisotropy
Assembly
Biomaterials
bioprinting
Blood vessels
Cartilage
Construction
Heart
Mechanical properties
Muscles
Nerves
Organs
photopatterning
Regeneration
Scaffolds
Surgical implants
Three dimensional printing
Tissue engineering
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Summary:The worldwide shortage of organs fosters significant advancements in regenerative therapies. Tissue engineering and regeneration aim to supply or repair organs or tissues by combining material scaffolds, biochemical signals, and cells. The greatest challenge entails the creation of a suitable implantable or injectable 3D macroenvironment and microenvironment to allow for ex vivo or in vivo cell‐induced tissue formation. This review gives an overview of the essential components of tissue regenerating scaffolds, ranging from the molecular to the macroscopic scale in a hierarchical manner. Further, this review elaborates about recent pivotal technologies, such as photopatterning, electrospinning, 3D bioprinting, or the assembly of micrometer‐scale building blocks, which enable the incorporation of local heterogeneities, similar to most native extracellular matrices. These methods are applied to mimic a vast number of different tissues, including cartilage, bone, nerves, muscle, heart, and blood vessels. Despite the tremendous progress that has been made in the last decade, it remains a hurdle to build biomaterial constructs in vitro or in vivo with a native‐like structure and architecture, including spatiotemporal control of biofunctional domains and mechanical properties. New chemistries and assembly methods in water will be crucial to develop therapies that are clinically translatable and can evolve into organized and functional tissues. The generation of tissue regenerative constructs via hierarchical design criteria follows the fundamentals of life's natural order. Advances in synthesis and fabrication technologies allow implementation of mechanical, biochemical, and structural cues on length scales ranging from molecular to nano to micro to macro. Thereby, hierarchical orders are achieved for the next generation material‐based therapies.
ISSN:2192-2640
2192-2659
DOI:10.1002/adhm.201701067