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Fabrication of three-dimensional scaffolds for heterogeneous tissue engineering
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Fabrication of three-dimensional scaffolds for heterogeneous tissue engineering

Li-Hsin Han, Shalu Suri, Christine E. Schmidt and Shaochen Chen
Biomedical microdevices, v 12(4), pp 721-725
01 Aug 2010
PMID: 20393801

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Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics Technology
The development of biomedical scaffolds mimicking a heterogeneous cellular microenvironment for a specified regulation of cell-fates is very promising for tissue engineering. In this study, three-dimensional scaffolds with heterogeneous microstructure were developed using a DMD-PP apparatus. During the fabrication process, this apparatus can efficiently switch monomers to form microstructures with localized, different material properties; the resolution in the arrangement of material properties is comparable to the characteristic size of functional subunits in living organs, namely, a hundred microns. The effectiveness of this DMD-PP apparatus is demonstrated by a woodpile microstructure with heterogeneous fluorescence and also by a microporous cell-culturing scaffold with selected sites for protein adhesion. Cell-cultivation experiment was performed with the microporous scaffold, in which selective cell adhesion was observed.

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