Rapid tissue perfusion using sacrificial percolation of anisotropic networks
Matter(2024)
摘要
Tissue engineering has long sought to rapidly generate perfusable vascularized tissues with vessel sizes spanning those seen in humans. Current techniques such as biological 3D printing (top-down) and cellular self-assembly (bottom-up) are resource intensive and have not overcome the inherent tradeoff between vessel resolution and assembly time, limiting their utility and scalability for engineering tissues. We present a flexible and scalable technique termed SPAN (sacrificial percolation of anisotropic networks), where a network of perfusable channels is created throughout a tissue in minutes, irrespective of its size. Conduits with length scales spanning arterioles to capillaries are generated using pipettable alginate fibers that interconnect above a percolation density threshold and are then degraded within constructs of arbitrary size and shape. SPAN is readily used within common tissue engineering processes, can be used to generate endothelial cell-lined vasculature in a multi-cell type construct, and paves the way for rapid assembly of perfusable tissues.
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tissue engineering,vascular engineering,self-assembly,vessel network,anisotropic percolation,microfluidics,sacrificial casting,biofabrication,volumetric subtractive manufacturing
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