Unconventional strategies for liver tissue engineering: plant, paper, silk and nanomaterial-based scaffolds.

IF 2.4 4区医学 Q4 CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING

Regenerative medicine Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-05 DOI:10.1080/17460751.2024.2378615

Sanyam Jain, Jai Gopal Sharma

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Abstract

The paper highlights how significant characteristics of liver can be modeled in tissue-engineered constructs using unconventional scaffolds. Hepatic lobular organization and metabolic zonation can be mimicked with decellularized plant structures with vasculature resembling a native-hepatic lobule vascular arrangement or silk blend scaffolds meticulously designed for guided cellular arrangement as hepatic patches or metabolic activities. The functionality of hepatocytes can be enhanced and maintained for long periods in naturally fibrous structures paving way for bioartificial liver development. The phase I enzymatic activity in hepatic models can be raised exploiting the microfibrillar structure of paper to allow cellular stacking creating hypoxic conditions to induce in vivo-like xenobiotic metabolism. Lastly, the paper introduces amalgamation of carbon-based nanomaterials into existing scaffolds in liver tissue engineering.

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肝脏组织工程的非常规策略：基于植物、纸张、丝绸和纳米材料的支架。

论文重点介绍了如何利用非常规支架在组织工程构建物中模拟肝脏的重要特征。肝小叶组织和新陈代谢分区可通过脱细胞植物结构进行模拟，该结构的脉管与原生肝小叶血管排列相似，或通过丝绸混合支架进行精心设计，以引导细胞排列为肝补片或新陈代谢活动。肝细胞的功能可在天然纤维结构中得到增强和长期保持，为生物人工肝的开发铺平了道路。利用纸张的微纤维结构，可以提高肝脏模型的 I 期酶活性，允许细胞堆叠，创造缺氧条件，诱导类似活体的异生物代谢。最后，论文介绍了在肝组织工程中将碳基纳米材料与现有支架的结合。

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Regenerative medicine 医学-工程：生物医学

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

3.70%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

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