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- Title
Topographic Orientation of Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration: Recent Advances in Biomaterial Design and Applications.
- Authors
Chi, Jiayu; Wang, Mingyue; Chen, Jialin; Hu, Lizhi; Chen, Zhixuan; Backman, Ludvig J.; Zhang, Wei
- Abstract
Tissue engineering to develop alternatives for the maintenance, restoration, or enhancement of injured tissues and organs is gaining more and more attention. In tissue engineering, the scaffold used is one of the most critical elements. Its characteristics are expected to mimic the native extracellular matrix and its unique topographical structures. Recently, the topographies of scaffolds have received increasing attention, not least because different topographies, such as aligned and random, have different repair effects on various tissues. In this review, we have focused on various technologies (electrospinning, directional freeze-drying, magnetic freeze-casting, etching, and 3-D printing) to fabricate scaffolds with different topographic orientations, as well as discussed the physicochemical (mechanical properties, porosity, hydrophilicity, and degradation) and biological properties (morphology, distribution, adhesion, proliferation, and migration) of different topographies. Subsequently, we have compiled the effect of scaffold orientation on the regeneration of vessels, skin, neural tissue, bone, articular cartilage, ligaments, tendons, cardiac tissue, corneas, skeletal muscle, and smooth muscle. The compiled information in this review will facilitate the future development of optimal topographical scaffolds for the regeneration of certain tissues. In the majority of tissues, aligned scaffolds are more suitable than random scaffolds for tissue repair and regeneration. The underlying mechanism explaining the various effects of aligned and random orientation might be the differences in "contact guidance", which stimulate certain biological responses in cells.
- Subjects
TISSUE engineering; TISSUE scaffolds; BIOMATERIALS; BIOMIMETIC chemicals; ARTICULAR cartilage
- Publication
Biomimetics (2313-7673), 2022, Vol 7, Issue 3, p131
- ISSN
2313-7673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biomimetics7030131