3D Bioprinting Biomimetic Structures for Vascular Engineering
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomimetics of Materials and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tissue engineering; 3D bioprinting; vascular engineering; vascular biology; biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
The circulatory vascular system plays a critical role in the survival of all living things by supplying oxygen and nutrients and removing waste products. One of the major challenges in tissue engineering is to incorporate this vital system into artificial tissues and organs to ensure their long-term survival and support maturation. The complex branching structure of the vascular system, which ranges from centimeters to micrometers and changes dynamically in response to its environment, presents a challenge in its reconstruction.
Biomimetic approaches hold great potential as the most promising key field in creating hierarchical vascular structures that resemble tree branches and leaf veins. Building these complicated structures requires techniques for creating blood vessels of different sizes; connecting blood vessels of different scales without clogging; and creating functional, mature blood vessels that can dynamically change their structures. Recent advances in the highly-interdisciplinary 3D bioprinting field have realized many of these and hold great promise in addressing the remaining challenges.
This Special Issue on "3D Bioprinting Biomimetic Structures for Vascular Engineering" focuses on discovering important new research methods and exploring the potential of biomimetic approaches in building vascular structures. This issue calls for the contributions of researchers in the highly interdisciplinary fields of vascular engineering, biomimetic technology, and 3D bioprinting.
Dr. Vivian K. Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioprinting
- vascular engineering
- biomimetics
- tissue engineering
- vascularization
- bioreactor
- additive manufacturing
- bioink materials
- endothelialization
- artificial blood vessels
- tissue interfaces
- crculatory anastomosis
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