A Print-and-Fuse Strategy for Sacrificial Filaments Enables Biomimetically Structured Perfusable Microvascular Networks with Functional Endothelium Inside 3D Hydrogels
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- A facile and flexible approach for the integration of biomimetically branched microvasculature within bulk hydrogels is presented. For this, sacrificial scaffolds of thermoresponsive poly(2-cyclopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PcycloPrOx) are created using melt electrowriting (MEW) in an optimized and predictable way and subsequently placed into a customized bioreactor system, which is then filled with a hydrogel precursor solution. The aqueous environment above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PcycloPrOx at 25 °C swells the polymerA facile and flexible approach for the integration of biomimetically branched microvasculature within bulk hydrogels is presented. For this, sacrificial scaffolds of thermoresponsive poly(2-cyclopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PcycloPrOx) are created using melt electrowriting (MEW) in an optimized and predictable way and subsequently placed into a customized bioreactor system, which is then filled with a hydrogel precursor solution. The aqueous environment above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PcycloPrOx at 25 °C swells the polymer without dissolving it, resulting in fusion of filaments that are deposited onto each other (print-and-fuse approach). Accordingly, an adequate printing pathway design results in generating physiological-like branchings and channel volumes that approximate Murray's law in the geometrical ratio between parent and daughter vessels. After gel formation, a temperature decrease below the LCST produces interconnected microchannels with distinct inlet and outlet regions. Initial placement of the sacrificial scaffolds in the bioreactors in a pre-defined manner directly yields perfusable structures via leakage-free fluid connections in a reproducible one-step procedure. Using this approach, rapid formation of a tight and biologically functional endothelial layer, as assessed not only through fluorescent dye diffusion, but also by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) stimulation, is obtained within three days.…
Author: | Matthias Ryma, Hatice Genç, Ali Nadernezhad, Ilona Paulus, Dominik Schneidereit, Oliver Friedrich, Kristina Andelovic, Stefan Lyer, Christoph Alexiou, Iwona Cicha, Jürgen Groll |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-318532 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Abteilung für Funktionswerkstoffe der Medizin und der Zahnheilkunde |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Advanced Materials |
Year of Completion: | 2022 |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 28 |
Article Number: | e2200653 |
Source: | Advanced Materials 2022, 34(28):e2200653. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202200653 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202200653 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Tag: | hydrogels; melt electrowriting; microvasculature |
Release Date: | 2023/07/18 |
Licence (German): | CC BY-NC: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |