Journal
BIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages 3580-3595Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.03.019
Keywords
Time-sharing structure-supporting; High permeability; Bioink; Homogeneous cell growth; Tissue-like constructs
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52075285]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China [201604040002]
- KeyArea Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China [2020B090923003]
- Key Research and Development Projects of People's Liberation Army, China [BWS17J036]
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This study presents a novel hydrogel bioink that can shorten the ink preparation time, ensure cell dispersion, maintain the preset shape, and promote uniform cell growth, benefiting tissue repair. The hydrogel, through crosslinking, enables the integrity of cell-laden constructs to last for 21 days, with stable cell viability and morphology. Experiments show that the bioink exhibits excellent biological specificity in nerve-like, muscle-like, and cartilage-like constructs.
The ready-to-use, structure-supporting hydrogel bioink can shorten the time for ink preparation, ensure cell dispersion, and maintain the preset shape/microstructure without additional assistance during printing. Meanwhile, ink with high permeability might facilitate uniform cell growth in biological constructs, which is beneficial to homogeneous tissue repair. Unfortunately, current bioinks are hard to meet these requirements simultaneously in a simple way. Here, based on the fast dynamic crosslinking of aldehyde hyaluronic acid (AHA)/N-carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) and the slow stable crosslinking of gelatin (GEL)/4-arm poly(ethylene glycol) succinimidyl glutarate (PEG-SG), we present a time-sharing structure-supporting (TSHSP) hydrogel bioink with high permeability, containing 1% AHA, 0.75% CMC, 1% GEL and 0.5% PEG-SG. The TSHSP hydrogel can facilitate printing with proper viscoelastic property and self-healing behavior. By crosslinking with 4% PEGSG for only 3 min, the integrity of the cell-laden construct can last for 21 days due to the stable internal and external GEL/PEG-SG networks, and cells manifested long-term viability and spreading morphology. Nerve-like, muscle-like, and cartilage-like in vitro constructs exhibited homogeneous cell growth and remarkable biological specificities. This work provides not only a convenient and practical bioink for tissue engineering, targeted cell therapy, but also a new direction for hydrogel bioink development.
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