3D Bioprinting of Engineered Tissue Flaps with Hierarchical Vessel Networks (VesselNet) for Direct Host-To-Implant Perfusion

Autoři	SZKLANNY Ariel A. MACHOUR Majd REDENSKI Idan CHOCHOLA Václav GOLDFRACHT Idit KAPLAN Ben EPSHTEIN Mark YAMEEN Haneen Simaan MERDLER Uri FEINBERG Adam SELIKTAR Dror KORIN Netanel JAROŠ Josef LEVENBERG Shulamit
Rok publikování	2021
Druh	Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj	ADVANCED MATERIALS
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU	Lékařská fakulta
Citace
www	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.202102661
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202102661
Klíčová slova	3D bioprinting; ECM bioink; engineered flap; personalized medicine; tissue engineering; vascularization.
Popis	Engineering hierarchical vasculatures is critical for creating implantable functional thick tissues. Current approaches focus on fabricating mesoscale vessels for implantation or hierarchical microvascular in vitro models, but a combined approach is yet to be achieved to create engineered tissue flaps. Here, millimetric vessel-like scaffolds and 3D bioprinted vascularized tissues interconnect, creating fully engineered hierarchical vascular constructs for implantation. Endothelial and support cells spontaneously form microvascular networks in bioprinted tissues using a human collagen bioink. Sacrificial molds are used to create polymeric vessel-like scaffolds and endothelial cells seeded in their lumen form native-like endothelia. Assembling endothelialized scaffolds within vascularizing hydrogels incites the bioprinted vasculature and endothelium to cooperatively create vessels, enabling tissue perfusion through the scaffold lumen. Using a cuffing microsurgery approach, the engineered tissue is directly anastomosed with a rat femoral artery, promoting a rich host vasculature within the implanted tissue. After two weeks in vivo, contrast microcomputer tomography imaging and lectin perfusion of explanted engineered tissues verify the host ingrowth vasculature's functionality. Furthermore, the hierarchical vessel network (VesselNet) supports in vitro functionality of cardiomyocytes. Finally, the proposed approach is expanded to mimic complex structures with native-like millimetric vessels. This work presents a novel strategy aiming to create fully-engineered patient-specific thick tissue flaps.