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Bio-electrospraying 3-D Organotypic Human Skin Cultures

Jayarajan, Vignesh; Auguste, Jensen O; Gene, Kenilson A; Auguste, Libny; Nunez, Camilo; Marcinowski, Bartlomiej; Jayasinghe, Suwan N; (2023) Bio-electrospraying 3-D Organotypic Human Skin Cultures. Small , Article e2304940. 10.1002/smll.202304940. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Organotypic 3D tissue models have greatly contributed to understand a wide range of molecular and cellular characteristics within a functional or diseased tissue. Human skin reconstructs which act as models are most useful for a wide range of investigations, ranging from tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, drug development, screening, and discovery to name a few. There are many approaches for reconstructing 3D skin tissue models, however, to date there have been very few that are able to generate organotypic 3D constructs with a single technology having minimal processing steps to finally scalability. The many manifestations of 3D bioprinting have contributed to this endeavor, having said that, the technology's limitations have tempered those reconstructed models, as they are known to contain low cell numbers/concentrations to those having damaged/dead molecules/cells within the reconstructed tissue, which are not desirable, for exploring as tissues models. Contrary to 3D bioprinting approaches, bio-electrosprays have been demonstrated to possess the ability to handle large concentrations of cells and molecules to whole fertilized embryos without damaging them from a molecular level upwards. Consequently, this article demonstrates, for the first time, bio-electrospray's capacity to reconstruct skin-like structures in vitro and its potential in reconstructing full-thickness 3D organotypic human skin tissues.

Type: Article
Title: Bio-electrospraying 3-D Organotypic Human Skin Cultures
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202304940
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202304940
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 The Authors. Small published by Wiley-VCH GmbH This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Additive biomanufacturing, bio-electrosprays, biological models, cells , organotypic 3D human skin tissue, skin cultures
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178800
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