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
    EditorsPaul Ducheyne
    PublisherElsevier
    Pages236-266
    Number of pages31
    ISBN (Print)978-0-08-100692-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

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    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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