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Bioprinting and Cellular Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes

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Recent successful attempts to generate β cells are discussed and how this can be coupled with bioprinting technologies in order to fabricate pancreas tissues, which holds great potential for type 1 diabetes.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2017-11-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: 3D bioprinting & Pancreatic islets.

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Bioprinting: From Tissue and Organ Development to in Vitro Models.

TL;DR: The continuous convergence of the experts in the fields of material sciences, cell biology, engineering, and many other disciplines will gradually allow us to overcome the barriers identified on the demanding path toward manufacturing and adoption of tissue and organ replacements.
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Essential steps in bioprinting: From pre- to post-bioprinting

TL;DR: This review, for the first time, puts all the bioprinting stages in perspective of the whole process of biopprinting, and analyzes their current state of the art.
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Bioprinting functional tissues

TL;DR: Several factors that are critical for printing functional tissues including cell density, vascularization, innervation, heterogeneity, engraftment, mechanics, and tissue-specific function are discussed to inform the reader with future directions in bioprinting complex and volumetric tissues.
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Engineering a Clinically Translatable Bioartificial Pancreas to Treat Type I Diabetes

TL;DR: The status of the most advanced and widely explored implementations of cell encapsulation are highlighted with an eye toward translating the potential of this technological approach to medical reality.
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Bioprinting towards Physiologically Relevant Tissue Models for Pharmaceutics

TL;DR: The currently available tissue models in pharmaceutics along with their limitations are discussed and the possibilities of bioprinting physiologically relevant tissue models, which hold great potential in drug testing, high-throughput screening, and disease modeling are highlighted.
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Evaluation of bioprinter technologies

TL;DR: This paper prefaces the evolution of the field of bioprinting and presents the first comprehensive review of existing bioprinter technologies, where a comparative evaluation is performed for bioprinters.
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Quantitative analysis of cell composition and purity of human pancreatic islet preparations

TL;DR: Both EM and LM provide accurate methods to determine the cell composition of human islet preparations and can help us understand many of the discrepancies of islet composition in the literature.
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Fabrication of three-dimensional bioplotted hydrogel scaffolds for islets of Langerhans transplantation

TL;DR: 3D bioplotting was used for the fabrication of a 3D alginate-based porous scaffold as an extra-hepatic islet delivery system and INS1E β-cells, human and mouse islets were successfully embedded in 3D-plotted constructs without affecting their morphology and viability, while preventing their aggregation.
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