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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS
Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages 253-261Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2018.0343
Keywords
induced pluripotent stem cells; bone differentiation; scaffold; 3D printing
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- Petplan Charitable Trust [227-265]
- Paul Mellon Foundation
- Anne Duchess of Westminster Charitable Trust
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Horses, like humans, can experience bone fractures and due to their large size and the need to bear weight on all limbs during the recovery period, they can be difficult to treat. Surgical techniques to improve fracture repair are improving, but to date, regenerative medicine technologies to aid fracture healing are not commonly applied in horses. We have previously demonstrated that equine induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be differentiated into bone forming osteoblasts in 2D culture. In this study, we report on the use of a thermoplastic, 3D-printed polymer to provide a scaffold for successful, in vitro osteoblast differentiation of equine iPSCs. The scaffold provides a transparent, cost-effective solution to allow the analysis of osteoblast differentiation using live-cell imaging, immunohistochemistry, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction. This in vitro study demonstrates the future feasibility of generating 3D bone constructs through the cell seeding of scaffolds to use in regenerative medicine strategies to improve fracture repair in a relevant, large animal model.
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