5.14 Biofabrication in tissue engineering

T. Woodfield, K. Lim, P. Morouço, R. Levato, J. Malda, F. Melchels

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Abstract

Biofabrication techniques offer the potential to produce living three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs to repair or replace damaged or diseased human tissues and organs. Using these advanced Biofabrication techniques, constructs exhibiting spatial variation of cells, cellular building blocks, growth factors, and mechanical properties along multiple axes with high geometric complexity can be obtained. The level of control offered by these technologies to develop complex biofabricated tissues will allow tissue engineers to better study factors that modulate tissue formation and function, and provide a valuable tool to study graft performance as well as for high throughput screening of drug candidates in biofabricated tissue organoid models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComprehensive Biomaterials II
PublisherElsevier
Pages236-266
Number of pages31
ISBN (Electronic)9780081006924
ISBN (Print)9780081006917
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • 3D bioassembly
  • 3D bioprinting
  • 3D organoids
  • 3D plotting
  • Biofabrication
  • Bioink
  • Bioresin
  • Computer aided design
  • Hierarchical tissues
  • High throughput screening
  • Hybrid construct fabrication
  • Hydrogel
  • Nutrient diffusion
  • Organotypic in vitro models
  • Substrate patterning
  • Tissue engineering
  • Vascularization

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