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Aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting of mesenchymal stem cell spheroids within alginate microgels

Myoung Hwan Kim, Dishary Banerjee, Nazmiye Celik, Ibrahim T Ozbolat
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.13.452209
Myoung Hwan Kim
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
2The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Dishary Banerjee
2The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
3Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Nazmiye Celik
2The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
3Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Ibrahim T Ozbolat
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
2The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
3Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
4Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
5Department of Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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Aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting (AAfB) has emerged as a promising technique for precise placement of tissue spheroids in three-dimensional (3D) space for fabrication of tissues. For successful embedded bioprinting using AAfB, an ideal support bath should possess shear-thinning behavior and yield-stress to obtain tightly fused assembly of bioprinted spheroids. Several studies have demonstrated support baths for embedded bioprinting, but these materials pose major challenges due to their low biocompatibility, opaqueness, complex and prolonged preparation procedures, and limited spheroid fusion efficacy. In this study, to circumvent the aforementioned limitations, we present the feasibility of AAfB of human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) spheroids in alginate microgels as a support bath. First, alginate microgels were prepared with different particle sizes modulated by blending time and concentration, followed by determination of the optimal bioprinting conditions by the assessment of rheological properties, bioprintability, and spheroid fusion efficiency. The bioprinted and consequently self-assembled tissue structures made of hMSC spheroids were osteogenically induced for bone tissue formation. Alongside, we investigated the effects of peripheral blood monocyte-derived osteoclast incorporation into the hMSC spheroids in heterotypic bone tissue formation. We demonstrated that alginate microgels enabled unprecedented positional accuracy (~5%), transparency for visualization, and improved fusion efficiency (~97%) of bioprinted hMSC spheroids for bone fabrication. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using alginate microgels as a support bath for many different applications including but not limited to freeform bioprinting of spheroids, cell-laden hydrogels, and fugitive inks to form viable tissue constructs.

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Aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting of mesenchymal stem cell spheroids within alginate microgels
Myoung Hwan Kim, Dishary Banerjee, Nazmiye Celik, Ibrahim T Ozbolat
bioRxiv 2021.07.13.452209; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.13.452209
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Aspiration-assisted freeform bioprinting of mesenchymal stem cell spheroids within alginate microgels
Myoung Hwan Kim, Dishary Banerjee, Nazmiye Celik, Ibrahim T Ozbolat
bioRxiv 2021.07.13.452209; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.13.452209

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