scholarly journals Calcium/Cobalt Alginate Beads as Functional Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Focaroli ◽  
Gabriella Teti ◽  
Viviana Salvatore ◽  
Isabella Orienti ◽  
Mirella Falconi
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Biomechanical Properties ◽  
Alginate Beads ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Tissue Replacement

Articular cartilage is a highly organized tissue with complex biomechanical properties. However, injuries to the cartilage usually lead to numerous health concerns and often culminate in disabling symptoms, due to the poor intrinsic capacity of this tissue for self-healing. Although various approaches are proposed for the regeneration of cartilage, its repair still represents an enormous challenge for orthopedic surgeons. The field of tissue engineering currently offers some of the most promising strategies for cartilage restoration, in which assorted biomaterials and cell-based therapies are combined to develop new therapeutic regimens for tissue replacement. The current study describes thein vitrobehavior of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hADSCs) encapsulated within calcium/cobalt (Ca/Co) alginate beads. These novel chondrogenesis-promoting scaffolds take advantage of the synergy between the alginate matrix and Co+2ions, without employing costly growth factors (e.g., transforming growth factor betas (TGF-βs) or bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs)) to direct hADSC differentiation into cartilage-producing chondrocytes.

scholarly journals Advanced Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: Recent Progress and Future Directions

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 4199
Author(s):  
Mahshid Hafezi ◽  
Saied Nouri Khorasani ◽  
Mohadeseh Zare ◽  
Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany ◽  
Pooya Davoodi
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Regeneration ◽  
Biomechanical Properties ◽  
Tissue Growth ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Wide Range

Cartilage is a tension- and load-bearing tissue and has a limited capacity for intrinsic self-healing. While microfracture and arthroplasty are the conventional methods for cartilage repair, these methods are unable to completely heal the damaged tissue. The need to overcome the restrictions of these therapies for cartilage regeneration has expanded the field of cartilage tissue engineering (CTE), in which novel engineering and biological approaches are introduced to accelerate the development of new biomimetic cartilage to replace the injured tissue. Until now, a wide range of hydrogels and cell sources have been employed for CTE to either recapitulate microenvironmental cues during a new tissue growth or to compel the recovery of cartilaginous structures via manipulating biochemical and biomechanical properties of the original tissue. Towards modifying current cartilage treatments, advanced hydrogels have been designed and synthesized in recent years to improve network crosslinking and self-recovery of implanted scaffolds after damage in vivo. This review focused on the recent advances in CTE, especially self-healing hydrogels. The article firstly presents the cartilage tissue, its defects, and treatments. Subsequently, introduces CTE and summarizes the polymeric hydrogels and their advances. Furthermore, characterizations, the advantages, and disadvantages of advanced hydrogels such as multi-materials, IPNs, nanomaterials, and supramolecular are discussed. Afterward, the self-healing hydrogels in CTE, mechanisms, and the physical and chemical methods for the synthesis of such hydrogels for improving the reformation of CTE are introduced. The article then briefly describes the fabrication methods in CTE. Finally, this review presents a conclusion of prevalent challenges and future outlooks for self-healing hydrogels in CTE applications.

Research Progress of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage in Repairing Cartilage Defects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Yuan-Jia He ◽  
Shuang Lin ◽  
Qiang Ao
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Biomechanical Properties ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Cartilage Defects ◽  
Biomaterial Scaffolds ◽  
Seed Cells

Due to the unsatisfactory outcome of current clinical treatment, tissue engineering technology has become a promising approach for the treatment of cartilage defects. Typical cartilage tissue engineering uses seed cells that have been expanded in vitro to implant into various biomaterial scaffolds that are biocompatible and are gradually degraded and absorbed in the body, with or without physical/chemical factors mimicking the cartilage microenvironment, to regenerate cartilage tissue with similar biochemical and biomechanical properties to natural cartilage tissue. Therefore, we summarise the three aspects of seed cells, biological scaffolds, and factors/signals.

Alginate Microbeads as Cell Support for Cartilage Tissue Engineering: Bioreactor Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Obradović ◽  
A. Osmokrović ◽  
B. Bugarski ◽  
D. Bugarski ◽  
G. Vunjak-Novaković
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Mass Transport ◽  
Immobilized Cells ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Packed Bed ◽  
Alginate Beads ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Extracellular Matrix Components ◽  
Bioreactor System

Alginate was shown to be a suitable support for entrapment and cultivation of chondrocytes and bone marrow stromal cells, which under appropriate in vitro conditions synthesized cartilaginous components. The main limitation in these cultures may be low rates of mass transport through the alginate matrix governed by diffusion. In this study, we have designed and utilized a bioreactor system based on a packed bed of alginate beads with immobilized chondrogenic cells. Continuous medium perfusion provided convective mass transport through the packed bed, while small diameters of beads (2.5 mm and down to 500 μm) ensured short diffusion distances to the immobilized cells. During up to 5 weeks of cultivation, the cells synthesized extracellular matrix components merging beads together and indicating potentials of this system for precise regulation of the cellular microenvironment in cartilage tissue engineering.

scholarly journals Potential of 3-D tissue constructs engineered from bovine chondrocytes/silk fibroin-chitosan for in vitro cartilage tissue engineering

Biomaterials ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (25) ◽  
pp. 5773-5781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandana Bhardwaj ◽  
Quynhhoa T. Nguyen ◽  
Albert C. Chen ◽  
David L. Kaplan ◽  
Robert L. Sah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Silk Fibroin ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Tissue Constructs

TRENDS AND CHALLENGES OF CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsu-Wei Fang
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Stem Cells ◽  
Growth Factors ◽  
Bone Cells ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Bioactive Molecules ◽  
In Vivo Studies ◽  
Cartilage Tissue

Cartilage injuries may be caused by trauma, biomechanical imbalance, or degenerative changes of joint. Unfortunately, cartilage has limited capability to spontaneous repair once damaged and may lead to progressive damage and degeneration. Cartilage tissue-engineering techniques have emerged as the potential clinical strategies. An ideal tissue-engineering approach to cartilage repair should offer good integration into both the host cartilage and the subchondral bone. Cells, scaffolds, and growth factors make up the tissue engineering triad. One of the major challenges for cartilage tissue engineering is cell source and cell numbers. Due to the limitations of proliferation for mature chondrocytes, current studies have alternated to use stem cells as a potential source. In the recent years, a lot of novel biomaterials has been continuously developed and investigated in various in vitro and in vivo studies for cartilage tissue engineering. Moreover, stimulatory factors such as bioactive molecules have been explored to induce or enhance cartilage formation. Growth factors and other additives could be added into culture media in vitro, transferred into cells, or incorporated into scaffolds for in vivo delivery to promote cellular differentiation and tissue regeneration.Based on the current development of cartilage tissue engineering, there exist challenges to overcome. How to manipulate the interactions between cells, scaffold, and signals to achieve the moderation of implanted composite differentiate into moderate stem cells to differentiate into hyaline cartilage to perform the optimum physiological and biomechanical functions without negative side effects remains the target to pursue.

scholarly journals In vitro characterization of a novel magnetic fibrin-agarose hydrogel for cartilage tissue engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 103619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Bonhome-Espinosa ◽  
Fernando Campos ◽  
Daniel Durand-Herrera ◽  
José Darío Sánchez-López ◽  
Sébastien Schaub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
In Vitro Characterization ◽  
Agarose Hydrogel

Transforming Growth Factor Beta-Releasing Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Madry ◽  
Ana Rey-Rico ◽  
Jagadeesh K. Venkatesan ◽  
Brian Johnstone ◽  
Magali Cucchiarini
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Growth Factor ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor Beta ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue ◽  
Growth Factor Beta

scholarly journals 23.4 The combination of dynamic compression and shear with rvBMP-2 for in-vitro cartilage tissue engineering

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. B81
Author(s):  
G.M. Salzmann ◽  
P. Schmitz ◽  
M. Anton ◽  
M. Stoddart ◽  
S. Grad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Dynamic Compression ◽  
Cartilage Tissue Engineering ◽  
Cartilage Tissue
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