Issue 46, 2009
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

A cryogenic direct-plotting system for fabrication of 3D collagen scaffolds for tissue engineering

GeunHyung Kim,*a   SeungHyun Ahn,a   Hyeon Yoon,a   YunYoung Kimb  and  Wook Chunc  

* Corresponding authors

a Bio/Nanofluidics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Seosok-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
E-mail: gkim@chosun.ac.kr
Fax: +82-62-236-1534
Tel: +82-62-230-7180

b Modern Cell & Tissue Technologies Inc., 172 Seoul TechnoPark, Gongneung 2-dong, Seoul 137-743, Korea

c Department of Surgery, Burn Center, Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym Univeristy, Youngdeungpu-gu, Seoul 150-719, Korea

Abstract

The goal of tissue engineering is to repair or regenerate damaged tissue using a combination of cellular biology and materials engineering techniques. One of the challenging problems in tissue engineering is the development of a reproducible three-dimensional (3D) scaffold to support cell migration and infiltration. Although natural polymers, such as dissolved collagen or alginate, are considered ideal for this purpose, their hydrophilic properties have hindered the fabrication of designed 3D scaffold structures. To overcome this problem, we developed a novel system for the cryogenic plotting of 3D scaffolds. Using this technique, we created various 3D collagen scaffolds with designed pore structures that exhibited desired properties. The diameter of the individual collagen strands, which varied from 250 µm to 500 µm, was reproducibly dependent on processing parameters, and the final collagen scaffold showed little shrinkage (less than 12%) relative to the initial design. To evaluate the fabricated scaffold, we adapted the scaffold to regenerate skin tissue. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that co-cultured keratinocytes and fibroblasts completely migrated throughout the 3D collagen scaffold and keratinocytes were well differentiated on the surface of scaffold like a human skin.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B914187A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Jul 2009
Accepted
18 Sep 2009
First published
12 Oct 2009

J. Mater. Chem., 2009,19, 8817-8823

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A cryogenic direct-plotting system for fabrication of 3D collagen scaffolds for tissue engineering

G. Kim, S. Ahn, H. Yoon, Y. Kim and W. Chun, J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 8817 DOI: 10.1039/B914187A

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