Recent advances in cell-laden 3D bioprinting: materials, technologies and applications. Issue 4 (October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Huang, Jie; Fu, Han; Li, Chong; Dai, Jianwu; Zhang, Zhijun
• Is Part Of: Journal of 3D printing in medicine. Volume 1:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 268
• Publication Date: 2017-10
• Subjects: cell-laden 3D bioprinting -- printing strategy -- tissue engineering; Three-dimensional imaging in medicine -- Periodicals; Three-dimensional printing -- Periodicals; Medical technology -- Periodicals; Medical innovations -- Periodicals; Biomedical Technology; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Medical innovations; Medical technology; Three-dimensional imaging in medicine; Three-dimensional printing; Periodicals; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 610.28
• DOI: 10.2217/3dp-2017-0010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2059-4755

Abstract

Fabrication of 3D scaffolds with patient-specific designs, high structural and component complexity, and rapid on-demand production at a low-cost by printing technique has attracted ever-increasing interests in tissue engineering. Cell-laden 3D bioprinting offers good prospects for future organ transplantation. Compared with nonbiological 3D printing, cell-laden 3D bioprinting involves more complex factors, including the choice of printing materials, the strategy of gelling, cell viability and technical challenges. Although cell-populated 3D bioprinting has so many complex factors, it has proven to be a useful and exciting tool with wide potential applications in regenerative medicine to generate a variety of transplantable tissues. In this review, we first overview the bioprinting materials, gelling strategies and some major applications of cell-laden 3D bioprinting, with main focus on the recent advances and current challenges of the field. Finally, we propose some future directions of the cell-populated 3D bioprinting in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In this review, we first overview the bioprinting materials, gelling strategies and some major applications of cell-populated 3D bioprinting, with main focus on the recent advances and current challenges of the field. Finally, we propose some future directions of the cell-laden 3D bioprinting in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.