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Scaffold-based tissue engineering: rationale for computer-aided design and solid free-form fabrication systems
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The application, advancement and future directions of SFF techniques in the design and creation of scaffolds for use in clinically driven tissue engineering are reviewed.About:
This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2004-07-01. It has received 1067 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scaffold.read more
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3D bioprinting of tissues and organs
Sean V. Murphy,Anthony Atala +1 more
TL;DR: 3D bioprinting is being applied to regenerative medicine to address the need for tissues and organs suitable for transplantation and developing high-throughput 3D-bioprinted tissue models for research, drug discovery and toxicology.
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Porous scaffold design for tissue engineering
TL;DR: The integration of CTD with SFF to build designer tissue-engineering scaffolds is reviewed and the mechanical properties and tissue regeneration achieved using designer scaffolds are details.
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Polymers for 3D Printing and Customized Additive Manufacturing
TL;DR: Polymers are by far the most utilized class of materials for AM and their design, additives, and processing parameters as they relate to enhancing build speed and improving accuracy, functionality, surface finish, stability, mechanical properties, and porosity are addressed.
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Three-dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering applications : role of porosity and pore size
Qiu Li Loh,Cleo Choong +1 more
TL;DR: The ability of pore size and porosity of scaffolds to direct cellular responses and alter the mechanical properties of scaffold will be reviewed, followed by a look at nature's own scaffold, the extracellular matrix.
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A review on stereolithography and its applications in biomedical engineering
TL;DR: Stereolithography is a solid freeform technique (SFF) that was introduced in the late 1980s as mentioned in this paper, and it has been widely used in biomedical applications, as well as the biodegradable resin materials developed for use with stereolithography.
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Scaffolds in tissue engineering bone and cartilage.
TL;DR: Research on the tissue engineering of bone and cartilage from the polymeric scaffold point of view is reviews from a biodegradable and bioresorbable perspective.
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Thermosensitive sol-gel reversible hydrogels.
TL;DR: It is timely to summarize the polymeric systems that undergo sol-gel transitions, particularly due to temperature, with emphasis on the underlying transition mechanisms and potential delivery aspects.
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Fused deposition modeling of novel scaffold architectures for tissue engineering applications.
TL;DR: Analysis of the measured data shows a high correlation between the scaffold porosity and the compressive properties based on a power-law relationship.
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Photopolymerizable hydrogels for tissue engineering applications.
Kytai T. Nguyen,Jennifer L. West +1 more
TL;DR: Advantages of photopolymerization of hydrogels are presented, the photoinitiators and materials in current use are described and the applications that have been investigated are summarized.
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Scaffold design and fabrication technologies for engineering tissues--state of the art and future perspectives.
TL;DR: An overview of the various fabrication techniques of scaffolds is presented, beginning with the basic and conventional techniques to the more recent, novel methods that combine both scaffold design and fabrication capabilities.