2014
DOI: 10.3390/pr2010167
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Towards a Tissue-Engineered Ligament: Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Dedicated Multi-Chamber Tension-Torsion Bioreactor

Abstract: Tissue engineering may constitute a promising alternative to current strategies in ligament repair, providing that suitable scaffolds and culture conditions are proposed. The objective of the present contribution is to present the design and instrumentation of a novel OPEN ACCESSProcesses 2014, 2 168 multi-chamber tension-torsion bioreactor dedicated to ligament tissue engineering. A preliminary biological evaluation of a new braided scaffold within this bioreactor under dynamic loading is reported, starting w… Show more

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“…PLCL is an elastomeric synthetic copolymer combining biocompatible, degradable PLLA and PCL, resulting in desirable mechanical properties. It is of great interest in tissue engineering, because of its biocompatibility, biodegradability, and easy processing. Vuornos et al compared a foamed PLCL(70/30) structure with a braided poly( l / d )lactide (PLA, 96 L/4D) scaffold for tendon tissue engineering, and PLCL was judged to be excessively elastic to form a braided structure in their study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…PLCL is an elastomeric synthetic copolymer combining biocompatible, degradable PLLA and PCL, resulting in desirable mechanical properties. It is of great interest in tissue engineering, because of its biocompatibility, biodegradability, and easy processing. Vuornos et al compared a foamed PLCL(70/30) structure with a braided poly( l / d )lactide (PLA, 96 L/4D) scaffold for tendon tissue engineering, and PLCL was judged to be excessively elastic to form a braided structure in their study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…PLCL (85/15) braided scaffold was fabricated according to previously described methods . Briefly, it consists of a multilayer braided structure, each layer being made up of 16 fibers of poly(lactide‐co‐ε‐caprolactone) (PLCL, Purac Biomaterials) with a lactic acid/ε‐caprolactone proportion of 85/15.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another important aspect is to understand if the proposed experimental conditions in bioreactors result in highly reproducible outcomes, so that suitable bone engineering protocols can be developed for translational applications. The use of miniature multi-chamber bioreactor systems has been proposed to address the problem of the large variability associated with the use of biological material, resulting for example from genetic and developmental differences of the cell source used to engineering tissues [85,86]. Bioreactor systems support dynamic maturation of tissue substitutes by providing physical stimulation to the cells in the three-dimensional context within biomaterial scaffolds.…”
Section: Future Directions For Clinical Translationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That dynamic culture, when compared with a static culture, presented a high cellular adhesion and proliferation in 28 days. 25 …”
Section: Cell Seeding and Delivery Of Growth Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%