Tissue-Engineering Constructs, Using Photopolymerizable Hydrogels and...
One of the most important aspects of tissue engineering is the design of the scaffold providing the mechanical strength and access to nutrients for the new tissue. For customized tissue engineering, it...
View ArticleConstruction of High- Density Bacterial Colony Arrays and Patterns by the Ink...
We have developed a method for fabricating bacterial colony arrays and complex patterns using commercially available ink-jet printers. Bacterial colony arrays with a density of 100 colonies/cm(2) were...
View ArticleViability and Electrophysiology of Neural Cell Structures generated by the...
Complex cellular patterns and structures were created by automated and direct inkjet printing of primary embryonic hippocampal and cortical neurons. Immunostaining analysis and whole-cell patch-clamp...
View ArticleSynthesis and characterization of biodegradable elastomeric polyurethane...
Biodegradable polyurethanes (PUs) were synthesized from methylene di-p-phenyl-diisocyanate (MDI), polycaprolactone diol (PCL-diol) and N,N-bis (2-hydorxyethyl)-2-aminoethane-sulfonic acid (BES),...
View ArticleLoading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable,...
A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol, and a bicine chain extender. The chemical structure, mechanical...
View ArticleFabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues
We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping method. With the use of the modified inkjet printers, contractile cardiac hybrids...
View ArticleOrgan printing: computer aided jet based 3D tissue engineering
Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big challenge. Organ printing, which we define as...
View ArticleA Quantitative Approach to Studying Structures and Orientation at Self-...
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have become a standard tool for exploring surface interactions. Although well characterized, SAMs are known to undergo structural and conformational changes in the...
View ArticleCharacterization of Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers and Protein Arrays...
Commercial ink-jet printers were used with little modification to deposit alkanethiols onto gold substrata and several proteins onto silica supports. The resulting patterns of alkanethiols form...
View ArticleConstruction of High- Density Bacterial Colony Arrays and Patterns by the Ink...
We have developed a method for fabricating bacterial colony arrays and complex patterns using commercially available ink-jet printers. Bacterial colony arrays with a density of 100 colonies/cm(2) were...
View ArticleTissue-Engineering Constructs, Using Photopolymerizable Hydrogels and...
One of the most important aspects of tissue engineering is the design of the scaffold providing the mechanical strength and access to nutrients for the new tissue. For customized tissue engineering, it...
View ArticleInkjet printing of viable mammalian cells
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a commercial thermal printer to deposit Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) and embryonic motoneuron cells into pre-defined patterns. These experiments were...
View ArticleViability and Electrophysiology of Neural Cell Structures generated by the...
Complex cellular patterns and structures were created by automated and direct inkjet printing of primary embryonic hippocampal and cortical neurons. Immunostaining analysis and whole-cell patch-clamp...
View ArticleLoading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable,...
A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol, and a bicine chain extender. The chemical structure, mechanical...
View ArticleFabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues
We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping method. With the use of the modified inkjet printers, contractile cardiac hybrids...
View ArticleCell And Organ Printing 2: Fusion of Cell Aggregates In Three-Dimensional Gels
We recently developed a cell printer (Wilson and Boland, 2003) that enables us to place cells in positions that mimic their respective positions in organs. However, this technology was limited to the...
View ArticleElectrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons...
Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as 'entrapped' evenly distributed cells, (2) at the interface of two collagen layers (sandwich model), and (3) on the...
View ArticleHuman microvasculature fabrication using thermal inkjet printing technology
The current tissue engineering paradigm is that successfully engineered thick tissues must include vasculature. As biological approaches alone, such as VEGF, have fallen short of their promises, one...
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