High-Throughput Bioprinting of Geometrically-Controlled Pre-Vascularized Injectable Microgels for Accelerated Tissue Regeneration.
Adv Healthc Mater
; 12(22): e2202840, 2023 09.
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| ID: mdl-37219011
ABSTRACT
Successful integration of cell-laden tissue constructs with host vasculature depends on the presence of functional capillaries to provide oxygen and nutrients to the embedded cells. However, diffusion limitations of cell-laden biomaterials challenge regeneration of large tissue defects that require bulk-delivery of hydrogels and cells. Herein, a strategy to bioprint geometrically controlled, endothelial and stem-cell laden microgels in high-throughput is introduced, allowing these cells to form mature and functional pericyte-supported vascular capillaries in vitro, and then injecting these pre-vascularized constructs minimally invasively in-vivo. It is demonstrated that this approach offers both desired scalability for translational applications as well as unprecedented levels of control over multiple microgel parameters to design spatially-tailored microenvironments for better scaffold functionality and vasculature formation. As a proof-of-concept, the regenerative capacity of the bioprinted pre-vascularized microgels is compared with that of cell-laden monolithic hydrogels of the same cellular and matrix composition in hard-to-heal defects in vivo. The results demonstrate that the bioprinted microgels have faster and higher connective tissue formation, more vessels per area, and widespread presence of functional chimeric (human and murine) vascular capillaries across regenerated sites. The proposed strategy, therefore, addresses a significant issue in regenerative medicine, demonstrating a superior potential to facilitate translational regenerative efforts.
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Adv Healthc Mater
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2023
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Estados Unidos