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The cell in the ink: improving biofabrication by printing stem cells for skeletal regenerative medicine

The cell in the ink: improving biofabrication by printing stem cells for skeletal regenerative medicine
The cell in the ink: improving biofabrication by printing stem cells for skeletal regenerative medicine
Recent advances in regenerative medicine have confirmed the potential to manufacture viable and effective tissue engineering 3D constructs comprising living cells for tissue repair and augmentation. Cell printing has shown promising potential in cell patterning in a number of studies enabling stem cells to be precisely deposited as a blueprint for tissue regeneration guidance. Such manufacturing techniques, however, face a number of challenges including; (i) post-printing cell damage, (ii) proliferation impairment and, (iii) poor or excessive final cell density deposition. The use of hydrogels offers one approach to address these issues given the ability to tune these biomaterials and subsequent application as vectors capable of delivering cell populations and as extrusion pastes. While stem cell-laden hydrogel 3D constructs have been widely established in vitro, clinical relevance, evidenced by in vivo long-term efficacy and clinical application, remains to be demonstrated. This review explores the central features of cell printing, cell-hydrogel properties and cell-biomaterial interactions together with the current advances and challenges in stem cell printing. A key focus is the translational hurdles to clinical application and how in vivo research can reshape and inform cell printing applications for an ageing population.
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Cidonio, Gianluca
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Glinka, Michael
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Dawson, Jonathan
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Cidonio, Gianluca
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Dawson, Jonathan
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Cidonio, Gianluca, Glinka, Michael, Dawson, Jonathan and Oreffo, Richard (2019) The cell in the ink: improving biofabrication by printing stem cells for skeletal regenerative medicine. Biomaterials, 209, 10-24. (doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.04.009).

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Abstract

Recent advances in regenerative medicine have confirmed the potential to manufacture viable and effective tissue engineering 3D constructs comprising living cells for tissue repair and augmentation. Cell printing has shown promising potential in cell patterning in a number of studies enabling stem cells to be precisely deposited as a blueprint for tissue regeneration guidance. Such manufacturing techniques, however, face a number of challenges including; (i) post-printing cell damage, (ii) proliferation impairment and, (iii) poor or excessive final cell density deposition. The use of hydrogels offers one approach to address these issues given the ability to tune these biomaterials and subsequent application as vectors capable of delivering cell populations and as extrusion pastes. While stem cell-laden hydrogel 3D constructs have been widely established in vitro, clinical relevance, evidenced by in vivo long-term efficacy and clinical application, remains to be demonstrated. This review explores the central features of cell printing, cell-hydrogel properties and cell-biomaterial interactions together with the current advances and challenges in stem cell printing. A key focus is the translational hurdles to clinical application and how in vivo research can reshape and inform cell printing applications for an ageing population.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 April 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 April 2019
Published date: July 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 430496
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430496
ISSN: 0142-9612
PURE UUID: 28da302e-4acf-42b2-890b-0ad006b39860
ORCID for Jonathan Dawson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-0598
ORCID for Richard Oreffo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5995-6726

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Date deposited: 02 May 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:48

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Author: Gianluca Cidonio
Author: Michael Glinka
Author: Jonathan Dawson ORCID iD
Author: Richard Oreffo ORCID iD

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