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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages 15-28Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2021.01.018
Keywords
Nanotechnology; Scaffold; Tissue engineering; 3D printing; Nanoscale texture
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- Lyle and Sharon Bighley Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health) [P30CA086862]
- Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing at the University of Iowa
- NIH [T32GM008365]
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Tissue engineering is a interdisciplinary field that aims to create therapies that regenerate functional tissue by combining life sciences and engineering. The use of biologically active materials in scaffolds can enhance regeneration by enabling cell-scaffold interactions or releasing factors that aid in regeneration. Advanced techniques like nanotechnology in combination with 3D printing show promise in enhancing tissue engineering scaffolds for stimulating regeneration and cell interaction.
Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that aims to combine life sciences and engineering to create therapies that regenerate functional tissue. Early work in tissue engineering mostly used materials as inert scaffolding structures, but research has shown that constructing scaffolds from biologically active materials can help with regeneration by enabling cell-scaffold interactions or release of factors that aid in regeneration. Threedimensional (3D) printing is a promising technique for the fabrication of structurally intricate and compositionally complex tissue engineering scaffolds. Such scaffolds can be functionalized with techniques developed by nanotechnology research to further enhance their ability to stimulate regeneration and interact with cells. Nanotechnological components, nanoscale textures, and microscale/nanoscale printing can all be incorporated into the manufacture of 3D printed scaffolds. This review discusses recent advancements in the merging of nanotechnology with 3D printed tissue engineering scaffolds, with a focus on applications of nanoscale components, nanoscale texture, and innovative printing techniques and the effects observed in vitro and in vivo.
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