Biomanufacturing for tissue engineering: Present and future trends
- 3 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Virtual and Physical Prototyping
- Vol. 4 (4), 203-216
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17452750903476288
Abstract
Tissue engineering, often referred to as regenerative medicine and reparative medicine, is an interdisciplinary field that necessitates the combined effort of cell biologists, engineers, material scientists, mathematicians, geneticists, and clinicians toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function. It has emerged as a rapidly expanding approach to address the organ shortage problem and comprises tissue regeneration and organ substitution. Cells placed on/or within constructs is the most common strategy in tissue engineering. Successful cell seeding depends on fast attachment of cell to scaffolds, high cell survival and uniform cell distribution. The seeding time is strongly dependent on the scaffold material and architecture. Scaffolds provide an initial biochemical substrate for the novel tissue until cells can produce their own extra-cellular matrix (ECM). Thus scaffolds not only define the 3D space for the formation of new tissues, but also serve to provide tissues with appropriate functions. These scaffolds are often critical, both in vivo (within the body) or in vitro (outside the body) mimicking in vivo conditions. Additive fabrication processes represent a new group of non-conventional fabrication techniques recently introduced in the biomedical engineering field. In tissue engineering, additive fabrication processes have been used to produce scaffolds with customised external shape and predefined internal morphology, allowing good control of pore size and pore distribution. This article provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the application of biomanufacturing additive processes in the field of tissue engineering. New and moving trends in biomanufacturing technologies and the concept of direct cell-printing technologies are also discussed.Keywords
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