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Liver bioengineering: current status and future perspectives.

Christopher Booth1, Tom Soker, Pedro Baptista

  • 1Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.

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Liver regeneration and bioengineering strategies are advancing for clinical use. Research focuses on scaffold-based approaches and manipulating cellular pathways to restore liver function.

Keywords:
Extracellular matrixLiverRegenerative medicineScaffoldStem cellsTissue engineering

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Area of Science:

  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Bioengineering
  • Hepatology

Background:

  • The liver possesses a unique capacity for regeneration after injury or resection.
  • Current limitations in liver transplantation and drug toxicity testing necessitate novel approaches.
  • Understanding cellular mechanisms is key to unlocking the liver's regenerative potential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review current strategies for liver regeneration and bioengineering for clinical applications.
  • To explore scaffold-based tissue engineering and in-situ regeneration methods.
  • To highlight the challenges and future directions in clinical translation.

Main Methods:

  • Scaffold-based tissue engineering using synthetic or decellularized matrices seeded with cells.
  • In vivo or bioreactor maturation of engineered liver tissues.
  • Investigating endogenous liver regeneration by manipulating cellular pathways and stem cell niches.

Main Results:

  • Liver organoids have been developed from rodent livers, repopulated with specific cells, showing promise for clinical translation.
  • Infusion of autologous bone marrow cells has demonstrated safety and clinical improvement in patients, though responsible cells are undetermined.
  • Scaffold-based methods offer a potentially faster route to clinical application compared to in-situ regeneration.

Conclusions:

  • Two primary strategies, scaffold-based engineering and in-situ regeneration, are being pursued for clinical liver bioengineering.
  • Further research into cell pathways, stem cell niches, and cell-extracellular matrix interactions is crucial for advancing regenerative medicine.
  • Liver bioengineering holds significant potential for transplantation and preclinical drug development.