Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 257, Issue 12, Pages 5142-5147Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.11.049
Keywords
Laser Assisted Bioprinting; Cell viability; Hydrogels
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Funding
- Region Aquitaine, GIS Advanced Materials in Aquitaine
- French Institute for Dental Research (IFRO)
- EU
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Biofabrication of three dimensional tissues by Laser-Assisted Bioprinting (LAB) implies to develop specific strategies for assembling the extracellular matrix (ECM) and cells. Possible strategies consist in (i) printing cells onto or in the depth of ECM layer and/or (ii) printing bioinks containing both cells and ECM-like printable biomaterial. The aim of this article was to evaluate combinatorial effects of laser pulse energy, ECM thickness and viscosity of the bioink on cell viability. A LAB workstation was used to print Ea.hy926 endothelial cells onto a quartz substrate covered with a film of ECM mimicking Matrigel (TM). Hence, effect of laser energy, Matrigel (TM) film thickness and bioink viscosity was addressed for different experimental conditions (8-24 mu J, 20-100 mu m and 40-110mPas, respectively). Cell viability was assessed by live/dead assay performed 24 h post-printing. Results show that increasing the laser energy tends to augment the cell mortality while increasing the thickness of the Matrigel (TM) film and the viscosity of the bioink support cell viability. Hence, critical printing parameters influencing high cell viability have been related to the cell landing conditions and more specifically to the intensity of the cell impacts occurring at the air-ECM interface and at the ECM-glass interface. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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