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Tissue-engineered flexible ear-shaped cartilage.

Jian-Wei Xu1, T Shane Johnson, Pejman M Motarjem

  • 1Division of Plastic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02130, USA.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|April 30, 2005
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Researchers engineered a flexible, human-sized ear construct using lyophilized swine perichondrium. This novel method successfully mimics native ear anatomy and mechanical properties for potential reconstructive applications.

Area of Science:

  • Biomaterials Engineering
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Regenerative Medicine

Background:

  • Previous tissue-engineered ear constructs lacked human ear flexibility and size.
  • Recent advances involved incorporating a perichondrium-like layer for improved flexibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate lyophilized swine perichondrium as a pseudoperichondrium for conferring flexibility.
  • To engineer a flexible cartilage construct in the shape and size of a human ear.

Main Methods:

  • Auricular chondrocytes and perichondrium were isolated from swine.
  • Constructs were formed using chondrocytes in fibrin polymer, with or without lyophilized swine perichondrium lamination.
  • An ear-shaped construct was implanted and stented in an athymic rat for 6 weeks.

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Main Results:

  • Engineered cartilaginous tissue was observed in both experimental and control groups.
  • Lamination with lyophilized swine perichondrium resulted in neocartilage histoarchitecture resembling native ear.
  • Experimental constructs exhibited mechanical properties similar to native ear, unlike control constructs.

Conclusions:

  • A cartilage construct resembling the human ear in shape, size, and flexibility was successfully engineered.
  • Lamination with lyophilized perichondrium is a reliable method for imparting elastic-like flexibility to engineered cartilage.