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Microfluidic Dry-spinning and Characterization of Regenerated Silk Fibroin Fibers
Published on: September 4, 2017
Fabrication of micro/nanoporous collagen/dECM/silk-fibroin biocomposite scaffolds using a low temperature 3D printing
Hyeongjin Lee1, Gi Hoon Yang1, Minseong Kim1
1Department of Biomechatronic Engineering, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Biomaterials must be biocompatible, biodegradable, and mechanically stable to be used for tissue engineering applications. Among various biomaterials, a natural-based biopolymer, collagen, has been widely applied in tissue engineering because of its outstanding biocompatibility. However, due to its low mechanical properties, collagen has been a challenge to build a desired/complex 3D porous structure with appropriate mechanical strength. To overcome this problem, in this study, we used a low temperature printing process to create a 3D porous scaffold consisting of collagen, decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) to induce high cellular activities, and silk-fibroin (SF) to attain the proper mechanical strength. To show the feasibility of the scaffold, pre-osteoblast (MC3T3-E1) cells were grown on the fabricated scaffold. Various in vitro cellular activities (cell-viability, MTT assay, and osteogenic activity) for pure collagen, collagen/dECM, and collagen/SF/dECM scaffolds were compared.
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