3D Printing in Bone Tissue Engineering Applications
A special issue of Organoids (ISSN 2674-1172).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 260
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tissue engineering; 3D-bioprinting; mesenchymal stem cells; angiogenesis; cell therapy; regenerative medicine; cell signaling; bone healing; gene expression
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Interests: cartilage; chondrocyte; degeneration; cell therapy; early diagnosis; spatial organization; biomechanics; mechanobiology; cell morphology; biophysical stimuli
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bone defects that are not able to heal on their own, due to their size or previous illnesses, are often clinically treated by autologous bone grafts. However, these transplants are severely limited in size and harvesting is associated with the generation of lifting defects. Because of this, the research area of bone tissue engineering remains of great interest.
In classical tissue engineering applications, suitable scaffold materials are randomly seeded with bone-forming cells and optional with additional cell types. This approach leads to an uncontrollable distribution of these cells within the scaffold.
3D bioprinting can be seen as a further development of the classic tissue engineering concept and enables the placement of different cell types in a 3-dimensional environment with very high spatial resolution. For the first time, this opens up the possibility of producing complex tissues, such as bone tissue, with much more similarity to native tissue.
This Special Issue will focus on the use of the 3D bioprinting technique for the production of artificial bone replacement tissues and invites original research articles as well as reviews on recent advances in this exciting research field.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Cells.
Prof. Dr. Günter Finkenzeller
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rolauffs
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bone
- tissue engineering
- bioprinting
- bioink
- hydrogel
- osteoblast
- mesenchymal stem cell
- phenotype control
- cell-instructive materials
