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De Jesus Morales KJ, Santosa U, Brazhkina O, Rajurkar P, Jo H, Davis ME. A Biomimetic Leaflet Scaffold for Aortic Valve Remodeling. Adv Healthc Mater 2024:e2303972. [PMID: 38692263 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202303972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
Abstract
Heart valve disease poses a significant clinical challenge, especially in pediatric populations, due to the inability of existing valve replacements to grow or respond biologically to their microenvironment. Tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) provide a solution by facilitating patient-specific models for self-repair and remodeling. In this study, a 3D-bioprinted TEHV is designed to emulate the trilayer leaflet structure of an aortic valve. A cell-laden hydrogel scaffold made from gelatin methacrylate and polyethylene glycol diacrylate (GelMA/PEGDA) incorporates valvular interstitial-like (VIC-like) cells, being reinforced with a layer of polycaprolactone (PCL). The composition of the hydrogel scaffold remains stable over 7 days, having increased mechanical strength compared to pure GelMA. The scaffold maintains VIC-like cell function and promotes extracellular matrix (ECM) protein expression up to 14 days under two dynamic culture conditions: shear stress and stretching; replicating heart valve behavior within a more physiological-like setting and suggesting remodeling potential via ECM synthesis. This TEHV offers a promising avenue for valve replacements, closely replicating the structural and functional attributes of a native aortic valve, leading to mechanical and biological integration through biomaterial-cellular interactions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenneth J De Jesus Morales
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Children's Heart Research & Outcomes (HeRO) Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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Bersie-Larson LM, Lai VK, Dhume RY, Provenzano PP, Barocas VH, Tranquillo RT. Elucidating the signal for contact guidance contained in aligned fibrils with a microstructural-mechanical model. J R Soc Interface 2022; 19:20210951. [PMID: 35582810 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Despite its importance in physiological processes and tissue engineering, the mechanism underlying cell contact guidance in an aligned fibrillar network has defied elucidation due to multiple interdependent signals that such a network presents to cells, namely, anisotropy of adhesion, porosity and mechanical behaviour. A microstructural-mechanical model of fibril networks was used to assess the relative magnitudes of these competing signals in networks of varied alignment strength based on idealized cylindrical pseudopods projected into the aligned and orthogonal directions and computing the anisotropy of metrics chosen for adhesion, porosity and mechanical behaviour: cylinder-fibre contact area for adhesion, persistence length of pores for porosity and total force to displace fibres from the cylindrical volume as well as network stiffness experienced upon cylinder retraction for mechanical behaviour. The signals related to mechanical anisotropy are substantially higher than adhesion and porosity anisotropy, especially at stronger network alignments, although their signal to noise (S/N) values are substantially lower. The former finding is consistent with a recent report that fibroblasts can sense fibril alignment via anisotropy of network mechanical resistance, and the model reveals this can be due to either mechanical resistance to pseudopod protrusion or retraction given their signal and S/N values are similar.
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- Lauren M Bersie-Larson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Bouten CVC, Cheng C, Vermue IM, Gawlitta D, Passier R. Cardiovascular tissue engineering and regeneration: A plead for further knowledge convergence. Tissue Eng Part A 2022; 28:525-541. [PMID: 35382591 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2021.0231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Cardiovascular tissue engineering and regeneration strive to provide long-term, effective solutions for a growing group of patients in need of myocardial repair, vascular (access) grafts, heart valves, and regeneration of organ microcirculation. In the past two decades, ongoing convergence of disciplines and multidisciplinary collaborations between cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiologists, bioengineers, material scientists, and cell biologists have resulted in better understanding of the problems at hand and novel regenerative approaches. As a side effect, however, the field has become strongly organized and differentiated around topical areas at risk of reinvention of technologies and repetition of approaches and across the areas. A better integration of knowledge and technologies from the individual topical areas and regenerative approaches and technologies may pave the way towards faster and more effective treatments to cure the cardiovascular system. This review summarizes the evolution of research and regenerative approaches in the areas of myocardial regeneration, heart valve and vascular tissue engineering, and regeneration of microcirculations and discusses previous and potential future integration of these individual areas and developed technologies for improved clinical impact. Finally, it provides a perspective on the further integration of research organization, knowledge implementation, and valorization as a contributor to advancing cardiovascular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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- Carlijn V C Bouten
- Soft Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics and Special Dental Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Applied Stem Cell Technologies, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Syedain ZH, Haynie B, Johnson SL, Lahti M, Berry J, Carney JP, Li J, Hill RC, Hansen KC, Thrivikraman G, Bianco R, Tranquillo RT. Pediatric tri-tube valved conduits made from fibroblast-produced extracellular matrix evaluated over 52 weeks in growing lambs. Sci Transl Med 2021; 13:13/585/eabb7225. [PMID: 33731437 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abb7225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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There is a need for replacement heart valves that can grow with children. We fabricated tubes of fibroblast-derived collagenous matrix that have been shown to regenerate and grow as a pulmonary artery replacement in lambs and implemented a design for a valved conduit consisting of three tubes sewn together. Seven lambs were implanted with tri-tube valved conduits in sequential cohorts and compared to bioprosthetic conduits. Valves implanted into the pulmonary artery of two lambs of the first cohort of four animals functioned with mild regurgitation and systolic pressure drops <10 mmHg up to 52 weeks after implantation, during which the valve diameter increased from 19 mm to a physiologically normal ~25 mm. In a second cohort, the valve design was modified to include an additional tube, creating a sleeve around the tri-tube valve to counteract faster root growth relative to the leaflets. Two valves exhibited trivial-to-mild regurgitation at 52 weeks with similar diameter increases to ~25 mm and systolic pressure drops of <5 mmHg, whereas the third valve showed similar findings until moderate regurgitation was observed at 52 weeks, correlating to hyperincrease in the valve diameter. In all explanted valves, the leaflets contained interstitial cells and an endothelium progressing from the base of the leaflets and remained thin and pliable with sparse, punctate microcalcifications. The tri-tube valves demonstrated reduced calcification and improved hemodynamic function compared to clinically used pediatric bioprosthetic valves tested in the same model. This tri-tube valved conduit has potential for long-term valve growth in children.
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- Zeeshan H Syedain
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. .,Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Ravishankar P, Ozkizilcik A, Husain A, Balachandran K. Anisotropic Fiber-Reinforced Glycosaminoglycan Hydrogels for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering. Tissue Eng Part A 2020; 27:513-525. [PMID: 32723024 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2020.0118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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This study investigates polymer fiber-reinforced protein-polysaccharide-based hydrogels for heart valve tissue engineering applications. Polycaprolactone and gelatin (3:1) blends were jet-spun to fabricate aligned fibers that possessed fiber diameters in the range found in the native heart valve. These fibers were embedded in methacrylated hydrogels made from gelatin, sodium hyaluronate, and chondroitin sulfate to create fiber-reinforced hydrogel composites (HCs). The fiber-reinforced gelatin glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-based HC possessed interconnected porous structures and porosity higher than fiber-only conditions. These fiber-reinforced HCs exhibited compressive modulus and biaxial mechanical behavior comparable to that of native porcine aortic valves. The fiber-reinforced HCs were able to swell higher and degraded less than the hydrogels. Elution studies revealed that less than 20% of incorporated gelatin methacrylate and GAGs were released over 2 weeks, with a steady-state release after the first day. When cultured with porcine valve interstitial cells (VICs), the fiber-reinforced composites were able to maintain higher cell viability compared with fiber-only samples. Quiescent VICs expressed alpha smooth muscle actin and calponin showing an activated phenotype, along with a few cells expressing the proliferation marker Ki67 and negative expression for RUNX2, an osteogenic marker. Our study demonstrated that compared with the hydrogels and fibers alone, combining both components can yield durable, reinforced composites that mimic heart valve mechanical behavior, while maintaining high cell viability and expressing positive activation as well as proliferation markers.
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- Prashanth Ravishankar
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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Next-generation tissue-engineered heart valves with repair, remodelling and regeneration capacity. Nat Rev Cardiol 2020; 18:92-116. [PMID: 32908285 DOI: 10.1038/s41569-020-0422-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Valvular heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Surgical valve repair or replacement has been the standard of care for patients with valvular heart disease for many decades, but transcatheter heart valve therapy has revolutionized the field in the past 15 years. However, despite the tremendous technical evolution of transcatheter heart valves, to date, the clinically available heart valve prostheses for surgical and transcatheter replacement have considerable limitations. The design of next-generation tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) with repair, remodelling and regenerative capacity can address these limitations, and TEHVs could become a promising therapeutic alternative for patients with valvular disease. In this Review, we present a comprehensive overview of current clinically adopted heart valve replacement options, with a focus on transcatheter prostheses. We discuss the various concepts of heart valve tissue engineering underlying the design of next-generation TEHVs, focusing on off-the-shelf technologies. We also summarize the latest preclinical and clinical evidence for the use of these TEHVs and describe the current scientific, regulatory and clinical challenges associated with the safe and broad clinical translation of this technology.
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Haghiashtiani G, Qiu K, Zhingre Sanchez JD, Fuenning ZJ, Nair P, Ahlberg SE, Iaizzo PA, McAlpine MC. 3D printed patient-specific aortic root models with internal sensors for minimally invasive applications. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabb4641. [PMID: 32923641 PMCID: PMC7455187 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb4641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Minimally invasive surgeries have numerous advantages, yet complications may arise from limited knowledge about the anatomical site targeted for the delivery of therapy. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure for treating aortic stenosis. Here, we demonstrate multimaterial three-dimensional printing of patient-specific soft aortic root models with internally integrated electronic sensor arrays that can augment testing for TAVR preprocedural planning. We evaluated the efficacies of the models by comparing their geometric fidelities with postoperative data from patients, as well as their in vitro hemodynamic performances in cases with and without leaflet calcifications. Furthermore, we demonstrated that internal sensor arrays can facilitate the optimization of bioprosthetic valve selections and in vitro placements via mapping of the pressures applied on the critical regions of the aortic anatomies. These models may pave exciting avenues for mitigating the risks of postoperative complications and facilitating the development of next-generation medical devices.
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- Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Seiler KM, Bajinting A, Alvarado DM, Traore MA, Binkley MM, Goo WH, Lanik WE, Ou J, Ismail U, Iticovici M, King CR, VanDussen KL, Swietlicki EA, Gazit V, Guo J, Luke CJ, Stappenbeck T, Ciorba MA, George SC, Meacham JM, Rubin DC, Good M, Warner BW. Patient-derived small intestinal myofibroblasts direct perfused, physiologically responsive capillary development in a microfluidic Gut-on-a-Chip Model. Sci Rep 2020; 10:3842. [PMID: 32123209 PMCID: PMC7051952 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60672-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The development and physiologic role of small intestine (SI) vasculature is poorly studied. This is partly due to a lack of targetable, organ-specific markers for in vivo studies of two critical tissue components: endothelium and stroma. This challenge is exacerbated by limitations of traditional cell culture techniques, which fail to recapitulate mechanobiologic stimuli known to affect vessel development. Here, we construct and characterize a 3D in vitro microfluidic model that supports the growth of patient-derived intestinal subepithelial myofibroblasts (ISEMFs) and endothelial cells (ECs) into perfused capillary networks. We report how ISEMF and EC-derived vasculature responds to physiologic parameters such as oxygen tension, cell density, growth factors, and pharmacotherapy with an antineoplastic agent (Erlotinib). Finally, we demonstrate effects of ISEMF and EC co-culture on patient-derived human intestinal epithelial cells (HIECs), and incorporate perfused vasculature into a gut-on-a-chip (GOC) model that includes HIECs. Overall, we demonstrate that ISEMFs possess angiogenic properties as evidenced by their ability to reliably, reproducibly, and quantifiably facilitate development of perfused vasculature in a microfluidic system. We furthermore demonstrate the feasibility of including perfused vasculature, including ISEMFs, as critical components of a novel, patient-derived, GOC system with translational relevance as a platform for precision and personalized medicine research.
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Grants
- R01 HD105301 NICHD NIH HHS
- R01 DK106382 NIDDK NIH HHS
- T32 DK007130 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R01 DK104698 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R01 DK114047 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R03 DK111473 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R01 DK109384 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R01 DK118568 NIDDK NIH HHS
- R01 DK112378 NIDDK NIH HHS
- K08 DK101608 NIDDK NIH HHS
- P30 DK052574 NIDDK NIH HHS
- T32 HD043010 NICHD NIH HHS
- K01 DK109081 NIDDK NIH HHS
- Association for Academic Surgery Foundation (AASF)
- Children’s Discovery Institute of Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital MI-F-2017-629; National Institutes of Health 4T32HD043010-14
- National Institutes of Health 3T32DK007130-45S1
- Givin’ it all for Guts Foundation (https://givinitallforguts.org/), Lawrence C. Pakula MD IBD Research, Innovation, and Education Fund, National Institutes of Health R01DK109384
- National Institutes of Health R03DK111473, R01DK118568, and K08DK101608, Children’s Discovery Institute of Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital MI-FR-2017-596, March of Dimes Foundation Grant No. 5-FY17-79, Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
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- Kristen M Seiler
- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Jana S, Bhagia A, Lerman A. Optimization of polycaprolactone fibrous scaffold for heart valve tissue engineering. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 14:065014. [PMID: 31593551 DOI: 10.1088/1748-605x/ab3d24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Pore size is generally small in nanofibrous scaffolds prepared by electrospinning polymeric solutions. Increase of scaffold thickness leads to decrease in pore size, causing impediment to cell infiltration into the scaffolds during tissue engineering. In contrast, comparatively larger pore size can be realized in microfibrous scaffolds prepared from polymeric solutions at higher concentrations. Further, microfibrous scaffolds are conducive to infiltration of reparative M2 phenotype macrophages during in vivo/in situ tissue engineering. However, rise of mechanical properties of a fibrous scaffold with the increase of polymer concentration may limit the functionality of a scaffold-based, tissue-engineered heart valve. In this study, we developed microfibrous scaffolds from 14%, 16% and 18% (wt/v) polycaprolactone (PCL) polymer solutions prepared with chloroform solvent. Porcine valvular interstitial cells were cultured in the scaffolds for 14 d to investigate the effect of microfibers prepared with different PCL concentrations on the seeded cells. Further, fresh microfibrous scaffolds were implanted subcutaneously in a rat model for two months to investigate the effect of microfibers on infiltrated cells. Cell proliferation, and its morphologies, gene expression and deposition of different extracellular matrix proteins in the in vitro study were characterized. During the in vivo study, we characterized cell infiltration, and myofibroblast and M1/M2 phenotypes expression of the infiltrated cells. Among different PCL concentrations, microfibrous scaffolds from 14% solution were suitable for heart valve tissue engineering for their sufficient pore size and low but adequate tensile properties, which promoted cell adhesion to and proliferation in the scaffolds, and effective gene expression and extracellular matrix deposition by the cells in vitro. They also encouraged the cells in vivo for their infiltration and effective gene expression, including M2 phenotype expression.
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- Soumen Jana
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, United States of America. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States of America
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Das S, Kim SW, Choi YJ, Lee S, Lee SH, Kong JS, Park HJ, Cho DW, Jang J. Decellularized extracellular matrix bioinks and the external stimuli to enhance cardiac tissue development in vitro. Acta Biomater 2019; 95:188-200. [PMID: 30986526 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Engineered heart tissue (EHT) has ample potential as a model for in vitro tissue modeling or tissue regeneration. Using 3D cell printing technology, various hydrogels have been utilized as bioinks to fabricate EHT to date. However, its efficacy has remained limited due to poor functional properties of the cultured cardiomyocytes stemming from a lack of proper microenvironmental cues. Specifically, the surrounding matrix plays a key role in modulating cardiomyocyte differentiation and maturation. Recently, the use of heart tissue-derived extracellular matrix (hdECM) bioink has come to be seen as one of the most promising candidates due to its functional and structural similarities to native tissue. Here, we demonstrated a correlation between the synthesis of cardiomyocyte-specific proteins and the surrounding microenvironment irrespective of the similar material chemistry. Primary cardiomyocytes isolated from neonatal rats were encapsulated in different composition and concentration of bioinks (hdECM and collagen). The bioinks were sequentially printed using an extrusion-based 3D bioprinter and cultured either statically or dynamically. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation revealed enhanced maturation of cardiomyocytes in hdECM, unlike the collagen group under similar culture conditions. Specifically, 3D-printed EHT using a low concentration of hdECM promoted early differentiation of cardiomyocytes. Hence, the present study provides experimental insights regarding the establishment of a 3D-printed cardiac tissue model, highlighting that the matrix and the culture microenvironment can be decisive factors for cell-material interactions that affect cardiomyocyte maturation. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: The regulation of signal transduction and responses to extracellular matrices (ECMs) is of particular relevance in tissue maturation. In particular, there is a clear need to understand the structural and phenotypical modulation in cardiomyocytes with respect to the surrounding microenvironment. Exploration of the key regulators, such as the compositional and the biophysical properties of bioinks associated directly with cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions would assist with the fabrication of cardiac tissue constructs with enhanced functionality. Hence, we documented the synergistic effects of surrounding matrices and culture conditions on the maturation of cardiomyocytes. Additionally, we highlighted the potential of using 3D bioprinting techniques to fabricate uniformly aligned cardiac constructs for mid- to high-throughput drug testing platforms that have great reproducibility and versatility.
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Jana S, Lerman A. Behavior of valvular interstitial cells on trilayered nanofibrous substrate mimicking morphologies of heart valve leaflet. Acta Biomater 2019; 85:142-156. [PMID: 30528607 PMCID: PMC6347416 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Heart valve tissue engineering could be an alternative to the current bioprosthetic heart valve that faces limitations especially in pediatric patients. However, heart valve tissue engineering has remained challenging because leaflets - the primary component of a heart valve - have three layers with three diverse orientations - circumferential, random and radial, respectively. In order to mimic the orientations, we first designed three novel collectors to fabricate three nanofibrous layers with those orientations from a polymeric biomaterial in an electrospinning system. Then, we devised a novel direct electrospinning technique to develop a unified trilayered nanofibrous (TN) substrate comprising those oriented layers. The TN substrate supported the growth and orientations of seeded porcine valvular interstitial cells (PVICs) and their deposited collagen fibrils. After one month culture, the obtained trilayered tissue construct (TC) exhibited increased tensile properties over its TN substrate. Most importantly, the developed TC did not show any sign of shrinkage. Gene expression pattern of the PVICs indicated the developing stage of the TC. Their protein expression pattern was quite similar to that of leaflets. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: This manuscript talks about development of a novel trilayered nanofibrous substrate mimicking the morphologies of a heart valve leaflet. It also describes culturing of valvular interstitial cells that reside in a leaflet, in the substrate and compares the behavior of the cultured cells with that in native leaflets in terms cell morphology, protein deposition and its orientation, and molecular signature. This study builds the groundwork for our future trilayered, tissue-engineered leaflet development. This research article would be of great interest to investigators and researchers in the field of cardiovascular tissue engineering especially in cardiac valve tissue engineering through biomaterial-based tissue engineering.
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- Soumen Jana
- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Mechanics of a two-fiber model with one nested fiber network, as applied to the collagen-fibrin system. Acta Biomater 2018; 72:306-315. [PMID: 29631049 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.03.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The mechanical behavior of collagen-fibrin (col-fib) co-gels is both scientifically interesting and clinically relevant. Collagen-fibrin networks are a staple of tissue engineering research, but the mechanical consequences of changes in co-gel composition have remained difficult to predict or even explain. We previously observed fundamental differences in failure behavior between collagen-rich and fibrin-rich co-gels, suggesting an essential change in how the two components interact as the co-gel's composition changes. In this work, we explored the hypothesis that the co-gel behavior is due to a lack of percolation by the dilute component. We generated a series of computational models based on interpenetrating fiber networks. In these models, the major network component percolated the model space but the minor component did not, instead occupying a small island embedded within the larger network. Each component was assigned properties based on a fit of single-component gel data. Island size was varied to match the relative concentrations of the two components. The model predicted that networks rich in collagen, the stiffer component, would roughly match pure-collagen gel behavior with little additional stress due to the fibrin, as seen experimentally. For fibrin-rich gels, however, the model predicted a smooth increase in the overall network strength with added collagen, as seen experimentally but not consistent with an additive parallel model. We thus conclude that incomplete percolation by the low-concentration component of a co-gel is a major determinant of its macroscopic properties, especially if the low-concentration component is the stiffer component. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Models for the behavior of fibrous networks have useful applications in many different fields, including polymer science, textiles, and tissue engineering. In addition to being important structural components in soft tissues and blood clots, these protein networks can serve as scaffolds for bioartificial tissues. Thus, their mechanical behavior, especially in co-gels, is both interesting from a materials science standpoint and significant with regard to tissue engineering.
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Usprech J, Romero DA, Amon CH, Simmons CA. Combinatorial screening of 3D biomaterial properties that promote myofibrogenesis for mesenchymal stromal cell-based heart valve tissue engineering. Acta Biomater 2017; 58:34-43. [PMID: 28532900 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.05.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The physical and chemical properties of a biomaterial integrate with soluble cues in the cell microenvironment to direct cell fate and function. Predictable biomaterial-based control of integrated cell responses has been investigated with two-dimensional (2D) screening platforms, but integrated responses in 3D have largely not been explored systematically. To address this need, we developed a screening platform using polyethylene glycol norbornene (PEG-NB) as a model biomaterial with which the polymer wt% (to control elastic modulus) and adhesion peptide types (RGD, DGEA, YIGSR) and densities could be controlled independently and combinatorially in arrays of 3D hydrogels. We applied this platform and regression modeling to identify combinations of biomaterial and soluble biochemical (TGF-β1) factors that best promoted myofibrogenesis of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSCs) in order to inform our understanding of regenerative processes for heart valve tissue engineering. In contrast to 2D culture, our screens revealed that soft hydrogels (low PEG-NB wt%) best promoted spread myofibroblastic cells that expressed high levels of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and collagen type I. High concentrations of RGD enhanced α-SMA expression in the presence of TGF-β1 and cell spreading regardless of whether TGF-β1 was in the culture medium. Strikingly, combinations of peptides that maximized collagen expression depended on the presence or absence of TGF-β1, indicating that biomaterial properties can modulate MSC response to soluble signals. This combination of a 3D biomaterial array screening platform with statistical modeling is broadly applicable to systematically identify combinations of biomaterial and microenvironmental conditions that optimally guide cell responses. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE We present a novel screening platform and methodology to model and identify how combinations of biomaterial and microenvironmental conditions guide cell phenotypes in 3D. Our approach to systematically identify complex relationships between microenvironmental cues and cell responses enables greater predictive power over cell fate in conditions with interacting material design factors. We demonstrate that this approach not only predicts that mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) myofibrogenesis is promoted by soft, porous 3D biomaterials, but also generated new insights which demonstrate how biomaterial properties can differentially modulate MSC response to soluble signals. An additional benefit of the process includes utilizing both parametric and non parametric analyses which can demonstrate dominant significant trends as well as subtle interactions between biochemical and biomaterial cues.
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Ray A, Slama ZM, Morford RK, Madden SA, Provenzano PP. Enhanced Directional Migration of Cancer Stem Cells in 3D Aligned Collagen Matrices. Biophys J 2017; 112:1023-1036. [PMID: 28297639 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 12/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Directed cell migration by contact guidance in aligned collagenous extracellular matrix (ECM) is a critical enabler of breast cancer dissemination. The mechanisms of this process are poorly understood, particularly in 3D, in part because of the lack of efficient methods to generate aligned collagen matrices. To address this technological gap, we propose a simple method to align collagen gels using guided cellular compaction. Our method yields highly aligned, acellular collagen constructs with predictable microstructural features, thus providing a controlled microenvironment for in vitro experiments. Quantifying cell behavior in these anisotropic constructs, we find that breast carcinoma cells are acutely sensitive to the direction and extent of collagen alignment. Further, live cell imaging and analysis of 3D cell migration reveals that alignment of collagen does not alter the total motility of breast cancer cells, but simply redirects their migration to produce largely one-dimensional movement. However, a profoundly enhanced motility in aligned collagen matrices is observed for the subpopulation of carcinoma cells with high tumor initiating and metastatic capacity, termed cancer stem cells (CSCs). Analysis of the biophysical determinants of cell migration show that nuclear deformation is not a critical factor associated with the observed increases in motility for CSCs. Rather, smaller cell size, a high degree of phenotypic plasticity, and increased protrusive activity emerge as vital facilitators of rapid, contact-guided migration of CSCs in aligned 3D collagen matrices.
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- Arja Ray
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Minnesota Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Masoumi N, Copper D, Chen P, Cubberley A, Guo K, Lin RZ, Ahmed B, Martin D, Aikawa E, Melero-Martin J, Mayer J. Elastomeric Fibrous Hybrid Scaffold Supports In Vitro and In Vivo Tissue Formation. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 2017; 27:1606614. [PMID: 32863817 PMCID: PMC7450820 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201606614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Biomimetic materials with biomechanical properties resembling those of native tissues while providing an environment for cell growth and tissue formation, are vital for tissue engineering (TE). Mechanical anisotropy is an important property of native cardiovascular tissues and directly influences tissue function. This study reports fabrication of anisotropic cell-seeded constructs while retaining control over the construct's architecture and distribution of cells. Newly synthesized poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB) is fabricated with a dry spinning technique to create anelastomeric fibrous scaffold that allows control of fiber diameter, porosity, and rate ofdegradation. To allow cell and tissue ingrowth, hybrid scaffolds with mesenchymalstem cells (MSCs) encapsulated in a photocrosslinkable hydrogel were developed. Culturing the cellularized scaffolds in a cyclic stretch/flexure bioreactor resulted in tissue formation and confirmed the scaffold's performance under mechanical stimulation. In vivo experiments showed that the hybrid scaffold is capable of withstanding physiological pressures when implanted as a patch in the pulmonary artery. Aligned tissue formation occurred on the scaffold luminal surface without macroscopic thrombus formation. This combination of a novel, anisotropic fibrous scaffold and a tunable native-like hydrogel for cellular encapsulation promoted formation of 3D tissue and provides a biologically functional composite scaffold for soft-tissue engineering applications.
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- Nafiseh Masoumi
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Tepha, Inc., Lexington, MA 02421, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Capulli AK, Emmert MY, Pasqualini FS, Kehl D, Caliskan E, Lind JU, Sheehy SP, Park SJ, Ahn S, Weber B, Goss JA, Hoerstrup SP, Parker KK. JetValve: Rapid manufacturing of biohybrid scaffolds for biomimetic heart valve replacement. Biomaterials 2017; 133:229-241. [PMID: 28445803 PMCID: PMC5526340 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Revised: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 04/15/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Tissue engineered scaffolds have emerged as a promising solution for heart valve replacement because of their potential for regeneration. However, traditional heart valve tissue engineering has relied on resource-intensive, cell-based manufacturing, which increases cost and hinders clinical translation. To overcome these limitations, in situ tissue engineering approaches aim to develop scaffold materials and manufacturing processes that elicit endogenous tissue remodeling and repair. Yet despite recent advances in synthetic materials manufacturing, there remains a lack of cell-free, automated approaches for rapidly producing biomimetic heart valve scaffolds. Here, we designed a jet spinning process for the rapid and automated fabrication of fibrous heart valve scaffolds. The composition, multiscale architecture, and mechanical properties of the scaffolds were tailored to mimic that of the native leaflet fibrosa and assembled into three dimensional, semilunar valve structures. We demonstrated controlled modulation of these scaffold parameters and show initial biocompatibility and functionality in vitro. Valves were minimally-invasively deployed via transapical access to the pulmonary valve position in an ovine model and shown to be functional for 15 h.
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- Andrew K Capulli
- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland; Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, 100 Ramistrasse, Zurich, 8091, CH, Switzerland
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland; Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, 100 Ramistrasse, Zurich, 8091, CH, Switzerland
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Center for Therapy Development/GMP, 13 Moussonstrasse, Zurich, 8044, CH, Switzerland
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- Disease Biophysics Group, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford St, Pierce Hall 321, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
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Fioretta ES, Dijkman PE, Emmert MY, Hoerstrup SP. The future of heart valve replacement: recent developments and translational challenges for heart valve tissue engineering. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 2017; 12:e323-e335. [PMID: 27696730 DOI: 10.1002/term.2326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Revised: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Heart valve replacement is often the only solution for patients suffering from valvular heart disease. However, currently available valve replacements require either life-long anticoagulation or are associated with valve degeneration and calcification. Moreover, they are suboptimal for young patients, because they do not adapt to the somatic growth. Tissue-engineering has been proposed as a promising approach to fulfil the urgent need for heart valve replacements with regenerative and growth capacity. This review will start with an overview on the currently available valve substitutes and the techniques for heart valve replacement. The main focus will be on the evolution of and different approaches for heart valve tissue engineering, namely the in vitro, in vivo and in situ approaches. More specifically, several heart valve tissue-engineering studies will be discussed with regard to their shortcomings or successes and their possible suitability for novel minimally invasive implantation techniques. As in situ heart valve tissue engineering based on cell-free functionalized starter materials is considered to be a promising approach for clinical translation, this review will also analyse the techniques used to tune the inflammatory response and cell recruitment upon implantation in order to stir a favourable outcome: controlling the blood-material interface, regulating the cytokine release, and influencing cell adhesion and differentiation. In the last section, the authors provide their opinion about the future developments and the challenges towards clinical translation and adaptation of heart valve tissue engineering for valve replacement. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Emanuela S Fioretta
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Switzerland.,Heart Center Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.,Wyss Translational Center Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Switzerland.,Wyss Translational Center Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Wu S, Duan B, Qin X, Butcher JT. Living nano-micro fibrous woven fabric/hydrogel composite scaffolds for heart valve engineering. Acta Biomater 2017; 51:89-100. [PMID: 28110071 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.01.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Revised: 12/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Regeneration and repair of injured or diseased heart valves remains a clinical challenge. Tissue engineering provides a promising treatment approach to facilitate living heart valve repair and regeneration. Three-dimensional (3D) biomimetic scaffolds that possess heterogeneous and anisotropic features that approximate those of native heart valve tissue are beneficial to the successful in vitro development of tissue engineered heart valves (TEHV). Here we report the development and characterization of a novel composite scaffold consisting of nano- and micro-scale fibrous woven fabrics and 3D hydrogels by using textile techniques combined with bioactive hydrogel formation. Embedded nano-micro fibrous scaffolds within hydrogel enhanced mechanical strength and physical structural anisotropy of the composite scaffold (similar to native aortic valve leaflets) and also reduced its compaction. We determined that the composite scaffolds supported the growth of human aortic valve interstitial cells (HAVIC), balanced the remodeling of heart valve ECM against shrinkage, and maintained better physiological fibroblastic phenotype in both normal and diseased HAVIC over single materials. These fabricated composite scaffolds enable the engineering of a living heart valve graft with improved anisotropic structure and tissue biomechanics important for maintaining valve cell phenotypes. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Heart valve-related disease is an important clinical problem, with over 300,000 surgical repairs performed annually. Tissue engineering offers a promising strategy for heart valve repair and regeneration. In this study, we developed and tissue engineered living nano-micro fibrous woven fabric/hydrogel composite scaffolds by using textile technique combined with bioactive hydrogel formation. The novelty of our technique is that the composite scaffolds can mimic physical structure anisotropy and the mechanical strength of natural aortic valve leaflet. Moreover, the composite scaffolds prevented the matrix shrinkage, which is major problem that causes the failure of TEHV, and better maintained physiological fibroblastic phenotype in both normal and diseased HAVIC. This work marks the first report of a combination composite scaffold using 3D hydrogel enhanced by nano-micro fibrous woven fabric, and represents a promising tissue engineering strategy to treat heart valve injury.
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Syedain Z, Reimer J, Lahti M, Berry J, Johnson S, Tranquillo RT. Tissue engineering of acellular vascular grafts capable of somatic growth in young lambs. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12951. [PMID: 27676438 PMCID: PMC5052664 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Treatment of congenital heart defects in children requiring right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction typically involves multiple open-heart surgeries because all existing graft materials have no growth potential. Here we present an ‘off-the-shelf' vascular graft grown from donor fibroblasts in a fibrin gel to address this critical unmet need. In a proof-of-concept study, the decellularized grafts are implanted as a pulmonary artery replacement in three young lambs and evaluated to adulthood. Longitudinal ultrasounds document dimensional growth of the grafts. The lambs show normal growth, increasing body weight by 366% and graft diameter and volume by 56% and 216%, respectively. Explanted grafts display physiological strength and stiffness, complete lumen endothelialization and extensive population by mature smooth muscle cells. The grafts also show substantial elastin deposition and a 465% increase in collagen content, without signs of calcification, aneurysm or stenosis. Collectively, our data support somatic growth of this completely biological graft. Current vessel grafts must be surgically replaced when the recipient outgrows them. Here, Syedain et al. bioengineer a tube of acellular matrix produced from sheep fibroblasts that is capable of cellularizaton and somatic growth when transplanted into growing lambs, eliminating the need for multiple graft surgeries.
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- Zeeshan Syedain
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Experimental Surgical Services, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.,Department of Chemical Engineering &Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Liberski AR, Raynaud CM, Ayad N, Wojciechowska D, Sathappan A. Valve Tissue Engineering with Living Absorbable Threads. Macromol Biosci 2016; 17. [PMID: 27615551 DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201600196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Revised: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Tissue engineering (TE) depends on the population of scaffolds with appropriate cells, arranged in a specific physiological direction using a variety of techniques. Here, a novel technique of creating "living threads" is described based on thin (poly(ε-caprolactone) fibers of different diameters (23-243 μm). The fibers readily attract human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which are firmly adhered. These versatile fibers can be used to produce dimensional shapes identical in shape to the cup-like structure of a normal human valve, while preserving the specific orientation of both the cells and the fibers. The MSCs on leaflets and the cells cultured in flask shown similar epitopes expression when analyzed by fluorescence activated cell sorting. Together, these characteristics have important functional implications as living absorbable fibers can be a valuable resource in TE of living tissues, including heart valves.
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- Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Department, Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22291-270, Brazil
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- Department of Material and Commodity Sciences and Textile Metrology, Lodz University of Technology, ul. Zeromskiego 116, 90-924, Lodz, Poland
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D'Amore A, Soares JS, Stella JA, Zhang W, Amoroso NJ, Mayer JE, Wagner WR, Sacks MS. Large strain stimulation promotes extracellular matrix production and stiffness in an elastomeric scaffold model. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2016; 62:619-635. [PMID: 27344402 PMCID: PMC4955736 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Revised: 04/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Mechanical conditioning of engineered tissue constructs is widely recognized as one of the most relevant methods to enhance tissue accretion and microstructure, leading to improved mechanical behaviors. The understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains rather limited, restricting the development of in silico models of these phenomena, and the translation of engineered tissues into clinical application. In the present study, we examined the role of large strip-biaxial strains (up to 50%) on ECM synthesis by vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) micro-integrated into electrospun polyester urethane urea (PEUU) constructs over the course of 3 weeks. Experimental results indicated that VSMC biosynthetic behavior was quite sensitive to tissue strain maximum level, and that collagen was the primary ECM component synthesized. Moreover, we found that while a 30% peak strain level achieved maximum ECM synthesis rate, further increases in strain level lead to a reduction in ECM biosynthesis. Subsequent mechanical analysis of the formed collagen fiber network was performed by removing the scaffold mechanical responses using a strain-energy based approach, showing that the denovo collagen also demonstrated mechanical behaviors substantially better than previously obtained with small strain training and comparable to mature collagenous tissues. We conclude that the application of large deformations can play a critical role not only in the quantity of ECM synthesis (i.e. the rate of mass production), but also on the modulation of the stiffness of the newly formed ECM constituents. The improved understanding of the process of growth and development of ECM in these mechano-sensitive cell-scaffold systems will lead to more rational design and manufacturing of engineered tissues operating under highly demanding mechanical environments.
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- Antonio D'Amore
- Department of Bioengineering McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Fondazione RiMED, Italy; DICGIM, Università di Palermo, Italy
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- Center for Cardiovascular Simulation, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Cardiovascular Simulation, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery Boston Children׳s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Cardiovascular Simulation, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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Moreira R, Neusser C, Kruse M, Mulderrig S, Wolf F, Spillner J, Schmitz-Rode T, Jockenhoevel S, Mela P. Tissue-Engineered Fibrin-Based Heart Valve with Bio-Inspired Textile Reinforcement. Adv Healthc Mater 2016; 5:2113-21. [PMID: 27377438 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201600300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The mechanical properties of tissue-engineered heart valves still need to be improved to enable their implantation in the systemic circulation. The aim of this study is to develop a tissue-engineered valve for the aortic position - the BioTexValve - by exploiting a bio-inspired composite textile scaffold to confer native-like mechanical strength and anisotropy to the leaflets. This is achieved by multifilament fibers arranged similarly to the collagen bundles in the native aortic leaflet, fixed by a thin electrospun layer directly deposited on the pattern. The textile-based leaflets are positioned into a 3D mould where the components to form a fibrin gel containing human vascular smooth muscle cells are introduced. Upon fibrin polymerization, a complete valve is obtained. After 21 d of maturation by static and dynamic stimulation in a custom-made bioreactor, the valve shows excellent functionality under aortic pressure and flow conditions, as demonstrated by hydrodynamic tests performed according to ISO standards in a mock circulation system. The leaflets possess remarkable burst strength (1086 mmHg) while remaining pliable; pronounced extracellular matrix production is revealed by immunohistochemistry and biochemical assay. This study demonstrates the potential of bio-inspired textile-reinforcement for the fabrication of functional tissue-engineered heart valves for the aortic position.
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- Ricardo Moreira
- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Institute for Textile Engineering; RWTH Aachen University; Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 1 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Institute for Textile Engineering; RWTH Aachen University; Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 1 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department for Cardiothoracic- and Vascular Surgery; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 30 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
- Institute for Textile Engineering; RWTH Aachen University; Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 1 52074 Aachen Germany
- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implant; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants; AME-Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering; University Hospital RWTH Aachen; Pauwelsstr. 20 52074 Aachen Germany
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Dijkman PE, Fioretta ES, Frese L, Pasqualini FS, Hoerstrup SP. Heart Valve Replacements with Regenerative Capacity. Transfus Med Hemother 2016; 43:282-290. [PMID: 27721704 DOI: 10.1159/000448181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The incidence of severe valvular dysfunctions (e.g., stenosis and insufficiency) is increasing, leading to over 300,000 valves implanted worldwide yearly. Clinically used heart valve replacements lack the capacity to grow, inherently requiring repetitive and high-risk surgical interventions during childhood. The aim of this review is to present how different tissue engineering strategies can overcome these limitations, providing innovative valve replacements that proved to be able to integrate and remodel in pre-clinical experiments and to have promising results in clinical studies. Upon description of the different types of heart valve tissue engineering (e.g., in vitro, in situ, in vivo, and the pre-seeding approach) we focus on the clinical translation of this technology. In particular, we will deepen the many technical, clinical, and regulatory aspects that need to be solved to endure the clinical adaptation and the commercialization of these promising regenerative valves.
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- Petra E Dijkman
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Wyss Translational Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hasan A, Saliba J, Pezeshgi Modarres H, Bakhaty A, Nasajpour A, Mofrad MRK, Sanati-Nezhad A. Micro and nanotechnologies in heart valve tissue engineering. Biomaterials 2016; 103:278-292. [PMID: 27414719 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Revised: 06/26/2016] [Accepted: 07/01/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Due to the increased morbidity and mortality resulting from heart valve diseases, there is a growing demand for off-the-shelf implantable tissue engineered heart valves (TEHVs). Despite the significant progress in recent years in improving the design and performance of TEHV constructs, viable and functional human implantable TEHV constructs have remained elusive. The recent advances in micro and nanoscale technologies including the microfabrication, nano-microfiber based scaffolds preparation, 3D cell encapsulated hydrogels preparation, microfluidic, micro-bioreactors, nano-microscale biosensors as well as the computational methods and models for simulation of biological tissues have increased the potential for realizing viable, functional and implantable TEHV constructs. In this review, we aim to present an overview of the importance and recent advances in micro and nano-scale technologies for the development of TEHV constructs.
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- Anwarul Hasan
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon; Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
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- BioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Center for BioEngineering Research and Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 208A Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1762, USA
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- Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 208A Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1762, USA
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, 208A Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1762, USA; Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- BioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Center for BioEngineering Research and Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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Gyoneva L, Hovell CB, Pewowaruk RJ, Dorfman KD, Segal Y, Barocas VH. Cell-matrix interaction during strain-dependent remodelling of simulated collagen networks. Interface Focus 2016; 6:20150069. [PMID: 26855754 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The importance of tissue remodelling is widely accepted, but the mechanism by which the remodelling process occurs remains poorly understood. At the tissue scale, the concept of tensional homeostasis, in which there exists a target stress for a cell and remodelling functions to move the cell stress towards that target, is an important foundation for much theoretical work. We present here a theoretical model of a cell in parallel with a network to study what factors of the remodelling process help the cell move towards mechanical stability. The cell-network system was deformed and kept at constant stress. Remodelling was modelled by simulating strain-dependent degradation of collagen fibres and four different cases of collagen addition. The model did not lead to complete tensional homeostasis in the range of conditions studied, but it showed how different expressions for deposition and removal of collagen in a fibre network can interact to modulate the cell's ability to shield itself from an imposed stress by remodelling the surroundings. This study also showed how delicate the balance between deposition and removal rates is and how sensitive the remodelling process is to small changes in the remodelling rules.
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- Lazarina Gyoneva
- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of Minnesota , 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of Minnesota , 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of Minnesota , 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota , 151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
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- Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street SE, Suite 353, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA; Minneapolis VA Health Care System, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , University of Minnesota , 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
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Blose KJ, Pichamuthu JE, Weinbaum JS, Vorp DA. Design and Validation of a Vacuum Assisted Anchorage for the Uniaxial Tensile Testing of Soft Materials. SOFT MATERIALS 2016; 14:72-77. [PMID: 27795696 PMCID: PMC5082747 DOI: 10.1080/1539445x.2016.1141787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Current commercial tensile testing systems use spring-loaded or other compression-based grips to clamp materials in place posing a problem for very soft or delicate materials that cannot withstand this mechanical clamping force. In order to perform uniaxial tensile tests on soft tissues or materials, we have created a novel vacuum-assisted anchor (VAA). Fibrin gels were subjected to uniaxial extension, and the testing data was used to determine material mechanical properties. Utilizing the VAA, we achieved successful tensile breaks of soft fibrin gels while finding statistically significant differences between the mechanical properties of gels fabricated at two different fibrinogen concentrations.
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- Kory J. Blose
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Center for Vascular Remodeling and Regeneration, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Center for Vascular Remodeling and Regeneration, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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Bioprinting a cardiac valve. Biotechnol Adv 2015; 33:1503-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Revised: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Eslami M, Javadi G, Agdami N, Shokrgozar MA. Expression of COLLAGEN 1 and ELASTIN Genes in Mitral Valvular Interstitial Cells within Microfiber Reinforced Hydrogel. CELL JOURNAL 2015; 17:478-88. [PMID: 26464819 PMCID: PMC4601868 DOI: 10.22074/cellj.2015.22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The incidence of heart valve disease is increasing worldwide and the number of heart valve replacements is expected to increase in the future. By mimicking the main tissue structures and properties of heart valve, tissue engineering offers new options for the replacements. Applying an appropriate scaffold in fabricating tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) is of importance since it affects the secretion of the main extracellular matrix (ECM) components, collagen 1 and elastin, which are crucial in providing the proper mechanical properties of TEHVs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in this experi- mental study, the relative expression levels of COLLAGEN 1 and ELASTIN were obtained for three samples of each examined sheep mitral valvular interstitial cells (MVICs)-seeded onto electrospun poly (glycerol sebacate) (PGS)-poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) microfibrous, gelatin and hyaluronic acid based hydrogel-only and composite (PGS-PCL/hydrogel) scaffolds. This composite has been shown to create a synthetic three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment with appropriate mechanical and biological properties for MVICs. RESULTS Cell viability and metabolic activity were similar among all scaffold types. Our results showed that the level of relative expression of COLLAGEN 1 and ELASTIN genes was higher in the encapsulated composite scaffolds compared to PGS-PCL-only and hydrogel-only scaffolds with the difference being statistically significant (P<0.05). CONCLUSION The encapsulated composite scaffolds are more conducive to ECM secretion over the PGS-PCL-only and hydrogel-only scaffolds. This composite scaffold can serve as a model scaffold for heart valve tissue engineering.
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- Maryam Eslami
- Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Genetics,Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for
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Mega M, Marom G, Halevi R, Hamdan A, Bluestein D, Haj-Ali R. Imaging analysis of collagen fiber networks in cusps of porcine aortic valves: effect of their local distribution and alignment on valve functionality. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2015; 19:1002-8. [PMID: 26406926 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2015.1088009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The cusps of native aortic valve (AV) are composed of collagen bundles embedded in soft tissue, creating a heterogenic tissue with asymmetric alignment in each cusp. This study compares native collagen fiber networks (CFNs) with a goal to better understand their influence on stress distribution and valve kinematics. Images of CFNs from five porcine tricuspid AVs are analyzed and fluid-structure interaction models are generated based on them. Although the valves had similar overall kinematics, the CFNs had distinctive influence on local mechanics. The regions with dilute CFN are more prone to damage since they are subjected to higher stress magnitudes.
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- Mor Mega
- a School of Mechanical Engineering , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel
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- b Department of Biomedical Engineering , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , NY , USA
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- a School of Mechanical Engineering , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel
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- c Heart Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel
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- b Department of Biomedical Engineering , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , NY , USA
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- a School of Mechanical Engineering , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel
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Heart disease, including valve pathologies, is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the progress made thanks to improving transplantation techniques, a perfect valve substitute has not yet been developed: once a diseased valve is replaced with current technologies, the newly implanted valve still needs to be changed some time in the future. This situation is particularly dramatic in the case of children and young adults, because of the necessity of valve growth during the patient's life. Our review focuses on the current status of heart valve (HV) therapy and the challenges that must be solved in the development of new approaches based on tissue engineering. Scientists and physicians have proposed tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) as the most promising solution for HV replacement, especially given that they can help to avoid thrombosis, structural deterioration and xenoinfections. Lastly, TEHVs might also serve as a model for studying human valve development and pathologies.
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Syedain Z, Reimer J, Schmidt J, Lahti M, Berry J, Bianco R, Tranquillo RT. 6-month aortic valve implantation of an off-the-shelf tissue-engineered valve in sheep. Biomaterials 2015; 73:175-84. [PMID: 26409002 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Revised: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Diseased aortic valves often require replacement, with over 30% of the current aortic valve surgeries performed in patients who will outlive a bioprosthetic valve. While many promising tissue-engineered valves have been created in the lab using the cell-seeded polymeric scaffold paradigm, none have been successfully tested long-term in the aortic position of a pre-clinical model. The high pressure gradients and dynamic flow across the aortic valve leaflets require engineering a tissue that has the strength and compliance to withstand high mechanical demand without compromising normal hemodynamics. A long-term preclinical evaluation of an off-the-shelf tissue-engineered aortic valve in the sheep model is presented here. The valves were made from a tube of decellularized cell-produced matrix mounted on a frame. The engineered matrix is primarily composed of collagen, with strength and organization comparable to native valve leaflets. In vitro testing showed excellent hemodynamic performance with low regurgitation, low systolic pressure gradient, and large orifice area. The implanted valves showed large-scale leaflet motion and maintained effective orifice area throughout the duration of the 6-month implant, with no calcification. After 24 weeks implantation (over 17 million cycles), the valves showed no change in tensile mechanical properties. In addition, histology and DNA quantitation showed repopulation of the engineered matrix with interstitial-like cells and endothelialization. New extracellular matrix deposition, including elastin, further demonstrates positive tissue remodeling in addition to recellularization and valve function. Long-term implantation in the sheep model resulted in functionality, matrix remodeling, and recellularization, unprecedented results for a tissue-engineered aortic valve.
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- Zeeshan Syedain
- Departments of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Experimental Surgical Services, University of Minnesota, United States
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States; Department of Chemical Engineering & Material Science, University of Minnesota, United States.
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Reimer JM, Syedain ZH, Haynie BHT, Tranquillo RT. Pediatric tubular pulmonary heart valve from decellularized engineered tissue tubes. Biomaterials 2015; 62:88-94. [PMID: 26036175 PMCID: PMC4490908 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Pediatric patients account for a small portion of the heart valve replacements performed, but a pediatric pulmonary valve replacement with growth potential remains an unmet clinical need. Herein we report the first tubular heart valve made from two decellularized, engineered tissue tubes attached with absorbable sutures, which can meet this need, in principle. Engineered tissue tubes were fabricated by allowing ovine dermal fibroblasts to replace a sacrificial fibrin gel with an aligned, cell-produced collagenous matrix, which was subsequently decellularized. Previously, these engineered tubes became extensively recellularized following implantation into the sheep femoral artery. Thus, a tubular valve made from these tubes may be amenable to recellularization and, ideally, somatic growth. The suture line pattern generated three equi-spaced leaflets in the inner tube, which collapsed inward when exposed to back pressure, per tubular valve design. Valve testing was performed in a pulse duplicator system equipped with a secondary flow loop to allow for root distention. All tissue-engineered valves exhibited full leaflet opening and closing, minimal regurgitation (<5%), and low systolic pressure gradients (<2.5 mmHg) under pulmonary conditions. Valve performance was maintained under various trans-root pressure gradients and no tissue damage was evident after 2 million cycles of fatigue testing.
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- Jay M Reimer
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota, USA.
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Ramaswamy S, Boronyak SM, Le T, Holmes A, Sotiropoulos F, Sacks MS. A novel bioreactor for mechanobiological studies of engineered heart valve tissue formation under pulmonary arterial physiological flow conditions. J Biomech Eng 2015; 136:121009. [PMID: 25321615 DOI: 10.1115/1.4028815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2013] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The ability to replicate physiological hemodynamic conditions during in vitro tissue development has been recognized as an important aspect in the development and in vitro assessment of engineered heart valve tissues. Moreover, we have demonstrated that studies aiming to understand mechanical conditioning require separation of the major heart valve deformation loading modes: flow, stretch, and flexure (FSF) (Sacks et al., 2009, "Bioengineering Challenges for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 11(1), pp. 289-313). To achieve these goals in a novel bioreactor design, we utilized a cylindrical conduit configuration for the conditioning chamber to allow for higher fluid velocities, translating to higher shear stresses on the in situ tissue specimens while retaining laminar flow conditions. Moving boundary computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations were performed to predict the flow field under combined cyclic flexure and steady flow (cyclic-flex-flow) states using various combinations of flow rate, and media viscosity. The device was successfully constructed and tested for incubator housing, gas exchange, and sterility. In addition, we performed a pilot experiment using biodegradable polymer scaffolds seeded with bone marrow derived stem cells (BMSCs) at a seeding density of 5 × 10(6) cells/cm(2). The constructs were subjected to combined cyclic flexure (1 Hz frequency) and steady flow (Re = 1376; flow rate of 1.06 l/min (LPM); shear stress in the range of 0-9 dynes/cm(2) for 2 weeks to permit physiological shear stress conditions. Assays revealed significantly (P < 0.05) higher amounts of collagen (2051 ± 256 μg/g) at the end of 2 weeks in comparison to similar experiments previously conducted in our laboratory but performed at subphysiological levels of shear stress (<2 dynes/cm(2); Engelmayr et al., 2006, "Cyclic Flexure and Laminar Flow Synergistically Accelerate Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Mediated Engineered Tissue Formation: Implications for Engineered Heart Valve Tissues," Biomaterials, 27(36), pp. 6083-6095). The implications of this novel design are that fully coupled or decoupled physiological flow, flexure, and stretch modes of engineered tissue conditioning investigations can be readily accomplished with the inclusion of this device in experimental protocols on engineered heart valve tissue formation.
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Weber M, Gonzalez de Torre I, Moreira R, Frese J, Oedekoven C, Alonso M, Rodriguez Cabello CJ, Jockenhoevel S, Mela P. Multiple-Step Injection Molding for Fibrin-Based Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2015; 21:832-40. [PMID: 25654448 PMCID: PMC4523041 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2014.0396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Heart valves are elaborate and highly heterogeneous structures of the circulatory system. Despite the well accepted relationship between the structural and mechanical anisotropy and the optimal function of the valves, most approaches to create tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) do not try to mimic this complexity and rely on one homogenous combination of cells and materials for the whole construct. The aim of this study was to establish an easy and versatile method to introduce spatial diversity into a heart valve fibrin scaffold. We developed a multiple-step injection molding process that enables the fabrication of TEHVs with heterogeneous composition (cell/scaffold material) of wall and leaflets without the need of gluing or suturing components together, with the leaflets firmly connected to the wall. The integrity of the valves and their functionality was proved by either opening/closing cycles in a bioreactor (proof of principle without cells) or with continuous stimulation over 2 weeks. We demonstrated the potential of the method by the two-step molding of the wall and the leaflets containing different cell lines. Immunohistology after stimulation confirmed tissue formation and demonstrated the localization of the different cell types. Furthermore, we showed the proof of principle fabrication of valves using different materials for wall (fibrin) and leaflets (hybrid gel of fibrin/elastin-like recombinamer) and with layered leaflets. The method is easy to implement, does not require special facilities, and can be reproduced in any tissue-engineering lab. While it has been demonstrated here with fibrin, it can easily be extended to other hydrogels.
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- Miriam Weber
- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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- 2 G.I.R. Bioforge, University of Valladolid , CIBER-BBN, Valladolid, Spain
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- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany .,3 Institut für Textiltecknik, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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- 1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University , Aachen, Germany
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Hoogenkamp HR, Bakker GJ, Wolf L, Suurs P, Dunnewind B, Barbut S, Friedl P, van Kuppevelt TH, Daamen WF. Directing collagen fibers using counter-rotating cone extrusion. Acta Biomater 2015; 12:113-121. [PMID: 25462525 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2014] [Revised: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 10/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The bio-inspired engineering of tissue equivalents should take into account anisotropic morphology and the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix. This especially applies to collagen fibrils, which have various, but highly defined, orientations throughout tissues and organs. There are several methods available to control the alignment of soluble collagen monomers, but the options to direct native insoluble collagen fibers are limited. Here we apply a controlled counter-rotating cone extrusion technology to engineer tubular collagen constructs with defined anisotropy. Driven by diverging inner and outer cone rotation speeds, collagen fibrils from bovine skin were extruded and precipitated onto mandrels as tubes with oriented fibers and bundles, as examined by second harmonic generation microscopy and quantitative image analysis. A clear correlation was found whereby the direction and extent of collagen fiber alignment during extrusion were a function of the shear forces caused by a combination of the cone rotation and flow direction. A gradual change in the fiber direction, spanning +50 to -40°, was observed throughout the sections of the sample, with an average decrease ranging from 2.3 to 2.6° every 10μm. By varying the cone speeds, the collagen constructs showed differences in elasticity and toughness, spanning 900-2000kPa and 19-35mJ, respectively. Rotational extrusion presents an enabling technology to create and control the (an)isotropic architecture of collagen constructs for application in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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Moreira R, Velz T, Alves N, Gesche VN, Malischewski A, Schmitz-Rode T, Frese J, Jockenhoevel S, Mela P. Tissue-engineered heart valve with a tubular leaflet design for minimally invasive transcatheter implantation. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2014; 21:530-40. [PMID: 25380414 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2014.0214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation of (nonviable) bioprosthetic valves has been proven a valid alternative to conventional surgical implantation in patients at high or prohibitive mortality risk. In this study we present the in vitro proof-of-principle of a newly developed tissue-engineered heart valve for minimally invasive implantation, with the ultimate aim of adding the unique advantages of a living tissue with regeneration capabilities to the continuously developing transcatheter technologies. The tube-in-stent is a fibrin-based tissue-engineered valve with a tubular leaflet design. It consists of a tubular construct sewn into a self-expandable nitinol stent at three commissural attachment points and along a circumferential line so that it forms three coaptating leaflets by collapsing under diastolic back pressure. The tubular constructs were molded with fibrin and human umbilical vein cells. After 3 weeks of conditioning in a bioreactor, the valves were fully functional with unobstructed opening (systolic phase) and complete closure (diastolic phase). Tissue analysis showed a homogeneous cell distribution throughout the valve's thickness and deposition of collagen types I and III oriented along the longitudinal direction. Immunohistochemical staining against CD31 and scanning electron microscopy revealed a confluent endothelial cell layer on the surface of the valves. After harvesting, the valves underwent crimping for 20 min to simulate the catheter-based delivery. This procedure did not affect the valvular functionality in terms of orifice area during systole and complete closure during diastole. No influence on the extracellular matrix organization, as assessed by immunohistochemistry, nor on the mechanical properties was observed. These results show the potential of combining tissue engineering and minimally invasive implantation technology to obtain a living heart valve with a simple and robust tubular design for transcatheter delivery. The effect of the in vivo remodeling on the functionality of the tube-in-stent valve remains to be tested.
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- Ricardo Moreira
- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.,2Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- 1Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, AME-Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Characterization of Dermal Fibroblasts as a Cell Source for Pediatric Tissue Engineered Heart Valves. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2014. [DOI: 10.3390/jcdd1020146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Dubé J, Bourget JM, Gauvin R, Lafrance H, Roberge CJ, Auger FA, Germain L. Progress in developing a living human tissue-engineered tri-leaflet heart valve assembled from tissue produced by the self-assembly approach. Acta Biomater 2014; 10:3563-70. [PMID: 24813743 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Revised: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The aortic heart valve is constantly subjected to pulsatile flow and pressure gradients which, associated with cardiovascular risk factors and abnormal hemodynamics (i.e. altered wall shear stress), can cause stenosis and calcification of the leaflets and result in valve malfunction and impaired circulation. Available options for valve replacement include homograft, allogenic or xenogenic graft as well as the implantation of a mechanical valve. A tissue-engineered heart valve containing living autologous cells would represent an alternative option, particularly for pediatric patients, but still needs to be developed. The present study was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of using a living tissue sheet produced by the self-assembly method, to replace the bovine pericardium currently used for the reconstruction of a stented human heart valve. In this study, human fibroblasts were cultured in the presence of sodium ascorbate to produce tissue sheets. These sheets were superimposed to create a thick construct. Tissue pieces were cut from these constructs and assembled together on a stent, based on techniques used for commercially available replacement valves. Histology and transmission electron microscopy analysis showed that the fibroblasts were embedded in a dense extracellular matrix produced in vitro. The mechanical properties measured were consistent with the fact that the engineered tissue was resistant and could be cut, sutured and assembled on a wire frame typically used in bioprosthetic valve assembly. After a culture period in vitro, the construct was cohesive and did not disrupt or disassemble. The tissue engineered heart valve was stimulated in a pulsatile flow bioreactor and was able to sustain multiple duty cycles. This prototype of a tissue-engineered heart valve containing cells embedded in their own extracellular matrix and sewn on a wire frame has the potential to be strong enough to support physiological stress. The next step will be to test this valve extensively in a bioreactor and at a later date, in a large animal model in order to assess in vivo patency of the graft.
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- Jean Dubé
- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada
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- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada
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- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada
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- Edwards Lifesciences LLC, One Edwards Way, Irvine, CA 92614, USA
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- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada
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- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada
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- Centre d'organogénèse expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Centre de recherche FRQS du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec, 1401, 18(eme) rue, G1J 1Z4 Québec, QC, Canada; Département de Chirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada.
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Jana S, Tefft BJ, Spoon DB, Simari RD. Scaffolds for tissue engineering of cardiac valves. Acta Biomater 2014; 10:2877-93. [PMID: 24675108 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2013] [Revised: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Tissue engineered heart valves offer a promising alternative for the replacement of diseased heart valves avoiding the limitations faced with currently available bioprosthetic and mechanical heart valves. In the paradigm of tissue engineering, a three-dimensional platform - the so-called scaffold - is essential for cell proliferation, growth and differentiation, as well as the ultimate generation of a functional tissue. A foundation for success in heart valve tissue engineering is a recapitulation of the complex design and diverse mechanical properties of a native valve. This article reviews technological details of the scaffolds that have been applied to date in heart valve tissue engineering research.
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- S Jana
- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Masoumi N, Annabi N, Assmann A, Larson BL, Hjortnaes J, Alemdar N, Kharaziha M, Manning KB, Mayer JE, Khademhosseini A. Tri-layered elastomeric scaffolds for engineering heart valve leaflets. Biomaterials 2014; 35:7774-85. [PMID: 24947233 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 04/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Tissue engineered heart valves (TEHVs) that can grow and remodel have the potential to serve as permanent replacements of the current non-viable prosthetic valves particularly for pediatric patients. A major challenge in designing functional TEHVs is to mimic both structural and anisotropic mechanical characteristics of the native valve leaflets. To establish a more biomimetic model of TEHV, we fabricated tri-layered scaffolds by combining electrospinning and microfabrication techniques. These constructs were fabricated by assembling microfabricated poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) and fibrous PGS/poly(caprolactone) (PCL) electrospun sheets to develop elastic scaffolds with tunable anisotropic mechanical properties similar to the mechanical characteristics of the native heart valves. The engineered scaffolds supported the growth of valvular interstitial cells (VICs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) within the 3D structure and promoted the deposition of heart valve extracellular matrix (ECM). MSCs were also organized and aligned along the anisotropic axes of the engineered tri-layered scaffolds. In addition, the fabricated constructs opened and closed properly in an ex vivo model of porcine heart valve leaflet tissue replacement. The engineered tri-layered scaffolds have the potential for successful translation towards TEHV replacements.
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- Nafiseh Masoumi
- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, State College, PA 16802, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Research Group for Experimental Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Moorenstr. 5, Dusseldorf 40225, Germany
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- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, State College, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21569, Saudi Arabia.
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Masoumi N, Larson BL, Annabi N, Kharaziha M, Zamanian B, Shapero KS, Cubberley AT, Camci-Unal G, Manning KB, Mayer JE, Khademhosseini A. Electrospun PGS:PCL microfibers align human valvular interstitial cells and provide tunable scaffold anisotropy. Adv Healthc Mater 2014; 3:929-39. [PMID: 24453182 PMCID: PMC4053480 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201300505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Revised: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Tissue engineered heart valves (TEHV) can be useful in the repair of congenital or acquired valvular diseases due to their potential for growth and remodeling. The development of biomimetic scaffolds is a major challenge in heart valve tissue engineering. One of the most important structural characteristics of mature heart valve leaflets is their intrinsic anisotropy, which is derived from the microstructure of aligned collagen fibers in the extracellular matrix (ECM). In the present study, a directional electrospinning technique is used to fabricate fibrous poly(glycerol sebacate):poly(caprolactone) (PGS:PCL) scaffolds containing aligned fibers, which resemble native heart valve leaflet ECM networks. In addition, the anisotropic mechanical characteristics of fabricated scaffolds are tuned by changing the ratio of PGS:PCL to mimic the native heart valve's mechanical properties. Primary human valvular interstitial cells (VICs) attach and align along the anisotropic axes of all PGS:PCL scaffolds with various mechanical properties. The cells are also biochemically active in producing heart-valve-associated collagen, vimentin, and smooth muscle actin as determined by gene expression. The fibrous PGS:PCL scaffolds seeded with human VICs mimick the structure and mechanical properties of native valve leaflet tissues and would potentially be suitable for the replacement of heart valves in diverse patient populations.
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- Nafiseh Masoumi
- Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, Sate College, PA, USA. Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the David Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Cir, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, Sate College, PA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 205 Hallowell Building, Sate College, PA, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 65 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan Cir, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Weber M, Heta E, Moreira R, Gesche VN, Schermer T, Frese J, Jockenhoevel S, Mela P. Tissue-engineered fibrin-based heart valve with a tubular leaflet design. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2014; 20:265-75. [PMID: 23829551 PMCID: PMC3968886 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2013.0258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The general approach in heart valve tissue engineering is to mimic the shape of the native valve in the attempt to recreate the natural haemodynamics. In this article, we report the fabrication of the first tissue-engineered heart valve (TEHV) based on a tubular leaflet design, where the function of the leaflets of semilunar heart valves is performed by a simple tubular construct sutured along a circumferential line at the root and at three single points at the sinotubular junction. The tubular design is a recent development in pericardial (nonviable) bioprostheses, which has attracted interest because of the simplicity of the construction and the reliability of the implantation technique. Here we push the potential of the concept further from the fabrication and material point of view to realize the tube-in-tube valve: an autologous, living HV with remodelling and growing capability, physiological haemocompatibility, simple to construct and fast to implant. We developed two different fabrication/conditioning procedures and produced fibrin-based constructs embedding cells from the ovine umbilical cord artery according to the two different approaches. Tissue formation was confirmed by histology and immunohistology. The design of the tube-in-tube foresees the possibility of using a textile coscaffold (here demonstrated with a warp-knitted mesh) to achieve enhanced mechanical properties in vision of implantation in the aortic position. The tube-in-tube represents an attractive alternative to the conventional design of TEHVs aiming at reproducing the valvular geometry.
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- Miriam Weber
- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Institut für Textiltechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Textile Implants, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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De Jesús AM, Sander EA. Observing and quantifying fibroblast-mediated fibrin gel compaction. J Vis Exp 2014:e50918. [PMID: 24458198 DOI: 10.3791/50918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Cells embedded in collagen and fibrin gels attach and exert traction forces on the fibers of the gel. These forces can lead to local and global reorganization and realignment of the gel microstructure. This process proceeds in a complex manner that is dependent in part on the interplay between the location of the cells, the geometry of the gel, and the mechanical constraints on the gel. To better understand how these variables produce global fiber alignment patterns, we use time-lapse differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy coupled with an environmentally controlled bioreactor to observe the compaction process between geometrically spaced explants (clusters of fibroblasts). The images are then analyzed with a custom image processing algorithm to obtain maps of the strain. The information obtained from this technique can be used to probe the mechanobiology of various cell-matrix interactions, which has important implications for understanding processes in wound healing, disease development, and tissue engineering applications.
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Mol A, Smits AIPM, Bouten CVC, Baaijens FPT. Tissue engineering of heart valves: advances and current challenges. Expert Rev Med Devices 2014; 6:259-75. [DOI: 10.1586/erd.09.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A physically motivated constitutive model for cell-mediated compaction and collagen remodeling in soft tissues. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2013; 13:985-1001. [DOI: 10.1007/s10237-013-0549-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2013] [Accepted: 12/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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van Loosdregt IAEW, Argento G, Driessen-Mol A, Oomens CWJ, Baaijens FPT. Cell-mediated retraction versus hemodynamic loading - A delicate balance in tissue-engineered heart valves. J Biomech 2013; 47:2064-9. [PMID: 24268314 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.10.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Revised: 10/29/2013] [Accepted: 10/31/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Preclinical studies of tissue-engineered heart valves (TEHVs) showed retraction of the heart valve leaflets as major failure of function mechanism. This retraction is caused by both passive and active cell stress and passive matrix stress. Cell-mediated retraction induces leaflet shortening that may be counteracted by the hemodynamic loading of the leaflets during diastole. To get insight into this stress balance, the amount and duration of stress generation in engineered heart valve tissue and the stress imposed by physiological hemodynamic loading are quantified via an experimental and a computational approach, respectively. Stress generation by cells was measured using an earlier described in vitro model system, mimicking the culture process of TEHVs. The stress imposed by the blood pressure during diastole on a valve leaflet was determined using finite element modeling. Results show that for both pulmonary and systemic pressure, the stress imposed on the TEHV leaflets is comparable to the stress generated in the leaflets. As the stresses are of similar magnitude, it is likely that the imposed stress cannot counteract the generated stress, in particular when taking into account that hemodynamic loading is only imposed during diastole. This study provides a rational explanation for the retraction found in preclinical studies of TEHVs and represents an important step towards understanding the retraction process seen in TEHVs by a combined experimental and computational approach.
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- Inge A E W van Loosdregt
- Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Trombetta-eSilva J, Eadie EP, Zhang Y, Norris RA, Borg TK, Bradshaw AD. The effects of age and the expression of SPARC on extracellular matrix production by cardiac fibroblasts in 3-D cultures. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79715. [PMID: 24223185 PMCID: PMC3819255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Fibrillar collagen is the primary component of the cardiac interstitial extracellular matrix. This extracellular matrix undergoes dramatic changes from birth to adulthood and then into advanced age. As evidence, fibrillar collagen content was compared in sections from neonates, adult, and old hearts and was found to increase at each respective age. Cardiac fibroblasts are the principle cell type that produce and control fibrillar collagen content. To determine whether fibroblast production, processing, and deposition of collagen differed with age, primary cardiac fibroblasts from neonate, adult, and old mice were isolated and cultured in 3-dimensional (3D) fibrin gels. Fibroblasts from each age aligned in fibrin gels along points of tension and deposited extracellular matrix. By confocal microscopy, wild-type neonate fibroblasts appeared to deposit less collagen into fibrillar structures than fibroblasts from adults. However, by immunoblot analysis, differences in procollagen production and processing of collagen I were not detected in neonate versus adult fibroblasts. In contrast, fibroblasts from old mice demonstrated increased efficiency of procollagen processing coupled with decreased production of total collagen. SPARC is a collagen-binding protein previously shown to affect cardiac collagen deposition. Accordingly, in the absence of SPARC, less collagen appeared to be associated with fibroblasts of each age grown in fibrin gels. In addition, the increased efficiency of procollagen alpha 1(I) processing in old wild-type fibroblasts was not detected in old SPARC-null fibroblasts. Increased levels of fibronectin were detected in wild-type neonate fibroblasts over that of adult and old fibroblasts but not in SPARC-null neonate fibroblasts versus older ages. Immunostaining of SPARC overlapped with that of collagen I but not to that of fibronectin in 3D cultures. Hence, whereas increases in procollagen processing, influenced by SPARC expression, plausibly contribute to increased collagen deposition in old hearts, other cellular mechanisms likely affect differential collagen deposition by neonate fibroblasts.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jessica Trombetta-eSilva
- Department of Craniofacial Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Gazes Cardiac Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Craniofacial Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Gazes Cardiac Research Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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Tubular heart valves from decellularized engineered tissue. Ann Biomed Eng 2013; 41:2645-54. [PMID: 23897047 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-013-0872-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A novel tissue-engineered heart valve (TEHV) was fabricated from a decellularized tissue tube mounted on a frame with three struts, which upon back-pressure cause the tube to collapse into three coapting "leaflets." The tissue was completely biological, fabricated from ovine fibroblasts dispersed within a fibrin gel, compacted into a circumferentially aligned tube on a mandrel, and matured using a bioreactor system that applied cyclic distension. Following decellularization, the resulting tissue possessed tensile mechanical properties, mechanical anisotropy, and collagen content that were comparable to native pulmonary valve leaflets. When mounted on a custom frame and tested within a pulse duplicator system, the tubular TEHV displayed excellent function under both aortic and pulmonary conditions, with minimal regurgitant fractions and transvalvular pressure gradients at peak systole, as well as well as effective orifice areas exceeding those of current commercially available valve replacements. Short-term fatigue testing of one million cycles with pulmonary pressure gradients was conducted without significant change in mechanical properties and no observable macroscopic tissue deterioration. This study presents an attractive potential alternative to current tissue valve replacements due to its avoidance of chemical fixation and utilization of a tissue conducive to recellularization by host cell infiltration.
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Spoon DB, Tefft BJ, Lerman A, Simari RD. Challenges of biological valve development. Interv Cardiol 2013. [DOI: 10.2217/ica.13.21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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