bims-biprem Biomed News
on Bioprinting for regenerative medicine
Issue of 2023‒10‒15
nine papers selected by
Seerat Maqsood, University of Teramo
  1. Use of 3D Printing Technology in Fracture Management: A Review and Case Series.
  2. Small Joint Organoids 3D Bioprinting: Construction Strategy and Application.
  3. INNOVATIONS IN ARTIFICIAL ORGANS AND TISSUE ENGINEERING: FROM 3D PRINTING TO STEM CELL THERAPY.
  4. 3D printing for bone regeneration: challenges and opportunities for achieving predictability.
  5. Retracted: Value of 3D Printed PLGA Scaffolds for Cartilage Defects in Terms of Repair.
  6. Incorporation of hair follicles in 3D bioprinted models of human skin.
  7. 3D printing-based full-scale human brain for diverse applications.
  8. Clinical application and prospect of 3D printing technology in orthopedics: A bibliometric analysis.
  9. Optimization of 3D synthetic scaffolds for neuronal tissue engineering applications.
  1. J Orthop Trauma. 2023 Nov 01. 37(11S): S40-S48
    Use of 3D Printing Technology in Fracture Management: A Review and Case Series.
    Raveesh D Richard, Austin Heare, Cyril Mauffrey, Beau McGinley, Alex Lencioni, Arjun Chandra, Vareesha Nasib, Brian L Chaiken, Alex Trompeter.
      SUMMARY: Three-dimensional (3D) offers exciting opportunities in medicine, particularly in orthopaedics. The boundaries of 3D printing are continuously being re-established and have paved the way for further innovations, including 3D bioprinting, custom printing refined methods, 4D bioprinting, and 5D printing potential. The quality of these applications have been steadily improving, increasing their widespread use among clinicians. This article provides a review of the current literature with a brief introduction to the process of additive manufacturing, 3D printing, and its applications in fracture care. We illustrate this technology with a case series of 3D printing used for correction of complex fractures/nonunion. Factors limiting the use of this technology, including cost, and potential solutions are discussed. Finally, we discuss 4D bioprinting and 5D printing and their potential role in fracture surgery.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/BOT.0000000000002693
  2. Small. 2023 Oct 09. e2302506
    Small Joint Organoids 3D Bioprinting: Construction Strategy and Application.
    Yuan Zhang, Guangfeng Li, Jian Wang, Fengjin Zhou, Xiaoxiang Ren, Jiacan Su.
      Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic disease that causes pain and disability in adults, affecting ≈300 million people worldwide. It is caused by damage to cartilage, including cellular inflammation and destruction of the extracellular matrix (ECM), leading to limited self-repairing ability due to the lack of blood vessels and nerves in the cartilage tissue. Organoid technology has emerged as a promising approach for cartilage repair, but constructing joint organoids with their complex structures and special mechanisms is still challenging. To overcome these boundaries, 3D bioprinting technology allows for the precise design of physiologically relevant joint organoids, including shape, structure, mechanical properties, cellular arrangement, and biological cues to mimic natural joint tissue. In this review, the authors will introduce the biological structure of joint tissues, summarize key procedures in 3D bioprinting for cartilage repair, and propose strategies for constructing joint organoids using 3D bioprinting. The authors also discuss the challenges of using joint organoids' approaches and perspectives on their future applications, opening opportunities to model joint tissues and response to joint disease treatment.
    Keywords:  3D bioprinting; biomaterials; cartilage repair; joint diseases; joint organoids
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202302506
  3. Georgian Med News. 2023 Jul-Aug;(340-341): 101-106
    INNOVATIONS IN ARTIFICIAL ORGANS AND TISSUE ENGINEERING: FROM 3D PRINTING TO STEM CELL THERAPY.
    D Pati, A Roy, M Porwal, N Beemkumar, G Patel M, S Bhatt.
      "Every year, many individuals with tissue or organ problems require urgent care due to medical emergencies, burns, congenital anomalies, and other causes". Regenerative medicine was created because there aren't enough donors, issues with graft rejection, and insufficient organs or tissues for patients to replace, repair, and regenerate. However, significant tissue defects are difficult to fill with injections alone, making stem cell therapy a crucial component of the area of regenerative medicine. To achieve the intended outcome, the researchers combine stem cells with three-dimensional (3D) printed organs tissue engineering scaffolding. These scaffolds can resemble bone, cartilage, or "extracellular matrix (ECM)" in that they provide structural support and promote adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation, finally resulting in the production of functional tissues or organs. In this study on stem cell regenerative medicine, the therapeutic focused mostly on scaffolding for 3D printed organ tissue engineering. The following applications are demonstrated and compared using various 3D printing processes and starting materials. Then, we go over the benefits of 3D printing over conventional methods, touch on certain issues and restrictions, and make some assumptions about potential applications in the future.
  4. Periodontol 2000. 2023 Oct 12.
    3D printing for bone regeneration: challenges and opportunities for achieving predictability.
    S Ivanovski, O Breik, D Carluccio, J Alayan, R Staples, C Vaquette.
      3D printing offers attractive opportunities for large-volume bone regeneration in the oro-dental and craniofacial regions. This is enabled by the development of CAD-CAM technologies that support the design and manufacturing of anatomically accurate meshes and scaffolds. This review describes the main 3D-printing technologies utilized for the fabrication of these patient-matched devices, and reports on their pre-clinical and clinical performance including the occurrence of complications for vertical bone augmentation and craniofacial applications. Furthermore, the regulatory pathway for approval of these devices is discussed, highlighting the main hurdles and obstacles. Finally, the review elaborates on a variety of strategies for increasing bone regeneration capacity and explores the future of 4D bioprinting and biodegradable metal 3D printing.
    Keywords:  3D printing; bone regeneration; maxillo-facial regeneration; polycaprolactone; regenerative dentistry
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/prd.12525
  5. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2023 ;2023 9820470
    Retracted: Value of 3D Printed PLGA Scaffolds for Cartilage Defects in Terms of Repair.
    Evidence-Based Complementary And Alternative Medicine.
      [This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/3561430.].
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/9820470
  6. Sci Adv. 2023 Oct 13. 9(41): eadg0297
    Incorporation of hair follicles in 3D bioprinted models of human skin.
    Carolina Motter Catarino, Desiree Cigaran Schuck, Lexi Dechiario, Pankaj Karande.
      Current approaches fail to adequately introduce complex adnexal structures such as hair follicles within tissue engineered models of skin. Here, we report on the use of 3D bioprinting to incorporate these structures in engineered skin tissues. Spheroids, induced by printing dermal papilla cells (DPCs) and human umbilical vein cells (HUVECs), were precisely printed within a pregelled dermal layer containing fibroblasts. The resulting tissue developed hair follicle-like structures upon maturation, supported by migration of keratinocytes and melanocytes, and their morphology and composition grossly mimicked that of the native skin tissue. Reconstructed skin models with increased complexity that better mimic native adnexal structures can have a substantial impact on regenerative medicine as grafts and efficacy models to test the safety of chemical compounds.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg0297
  7. Brain-X. 2023 Mar;pii: e5. [Epub ahead of print]1(1):
    3D printing-based full-scale human brain for diverse applications.
    Weijian Hua, Cheng Zhang, Lily Raymond, Kellen Mitchell, Lai Wen, Ying Yang, Danyang Zhao, Shu Liu, Yifei Jin.
      Surgery is the most frequent treatment for patients with brain tumors. The construction of full-scale human brain models, which is still challenging to realize via current manufacturing techniques, can effectively train surgeons before brain tumor surgeries. This paper aims to develop a set of three-dimensional (3D) printing approaches to fabricate customized full-scale human brain models for surgery training as well as specialized brain patches for wound healing after surgery. First, a brain patch designed to fit a wound's shape and size can be easily printed in and collected from a stimuli-responsive yield-stress support bath. Then, an inverse 3D printing strategy, called "peeling-boiled-eggs," is proposed to fabricate full-scale human brain models. In this strategy, the contour layer of a brain model is printed using a sacrificial ink to envelop the target brain core within a photocurable yield-stress support bath. After crosslinking the contour layer, the as-printed model can be harvested from the bath to photo crosslink the brain core, which can be eventually released by liquefying the contour layer. Both the brain patch and full-scale human brain model are successfully printed to mimic the scenario of wound healing after removing a brain tumor, validating the effectiveness of the proposed 3D printing approaches.
    Keywords:  3D printing; brain patch; full-scale human brain models; stimuli-responsive yield-stress bath; surgery training; wound healing
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/brx2.5
  8. Asian J Surg. 2023 Oct 07. pii: S1015-9584(23)01581-6. [Epub ahead of print]
    Clinical application and prospect of 3D printing technology in orthopedics: A bibliometric analysis.
    Zhi Chen, Yu Zhou, Peng Long, Yang Jiang.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asjsur.2023.09.178
  9. Chemistry. 2023 Oct 12. e202302481
    Optimization of 3D synthetic scaffolds for neuronal tissue engineering applications.
    Josue M M Galindo, Irene San Millan, Carlos A A Castillo-Sarmiento, Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yañez, Ester Vazquez, Soni Merino, Maria Antonia Herrero.
      The increasing prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases has spurred researchers to develop advanced 3D models that accurately mimic neural tissues. Hydrogels stand out as ideal candidates as their properties closely resemble those of the extracellular matrix. A critical challenge in this regard is to comprehend the influence of the scaffold's mechanical properties on cell growth and differentiation, thus enabling targeted modifications. In light of this, a synthesis and comprehensive analysis of acrylamide-based hydrogels incorporating a peptide has been conducted. Adequate cell adhesion and development is achieved due to their bioactive nature and specific interactions with cellular receptors. The integration of a precisely controlled physicochemical hydrogel matrix and inclusion of the arginine-glycine-aspartic acid peptide sequence has endowed this system with an optimal structure, thus providing a unique ability to interact effectively with biomolecules. The analysis fully examined essential properties governing cell behavior, including pore size, mechanical characteristics, and swelling ability. Cell-viability experiments were performed to assess the hydrogel's biocompatibility, while the incorporation of grow factors aimed to promote the differentiation of neuroblastoma cells. The results underscore the hydrogel's ability to stimulate cell viability and differentiation in the presence of the peptide within the matrix.
    Keywords:  3D Scaffold, hydrogel, neurodegenerative disease, RGD peptide, extracellular matrix
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202302481
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