Abstract
The development of rapid prototyping technologies including the "printing" of biodegradable scaffolds is a fasten growing field of tissue engineering. Here, we report about the development a novel computer-aided jet-based printer for organ printing. This cost effective, high throughput printer was shown to be very useful for two-dimensional molecular and cellular printing. We also show that it is possible to obtain 3-dimensional tissue constructs using a computer-driven, jet-based cell printer, a nontoxic thermo-reversible gel, cell aggregates of stem cells taken from bone marrow and perfusion bioreactor. It was demonstrated in vitro that closely placed explants of embryonic mesenchymal cushion tissue in three-dimensional collagen type 1 gel can fuse into ring-like and tubular structures. Similarly, printed cell aggregates fused and evolved into 3-dimensional, ring-like structure. Finally, a novel mathematical model of the cell-aggregates fusion process in the three-dimensional gels was developed. Taken together these data demonstrate the feasibility of computer-aided, three-dimensional tissue and organ printing.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages | 9 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |
Event | Third Smith and Nephew International Symposium - Translating Tissue Engineering into Products - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: 13 Oct 2002 → 16 Oct 2002 |
Conference
Conference | Third Smith and Nephew International Symposium - Translating Tissue Engineering into Products |
---|---|
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Atlanta, GA |
Period | 13/10/02 → 16/10/02 |
Field of Science*
- 2.6 Medical engineering
- 3.4 Medical biotechnology
Publication Type*
- 3.3. Publications in conference proceedings indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database