Macromolecular crowding transforms regenerative medicine by enabling the accelerated development of functional and truly three-dimensional cell assembled micro tissues.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Scaffold-free in vitro organogenesis exploits the innate ability of cells to synthesise and deposit their own extracellular matrix to fabricate tissue-like assemblies. Unfortunately, cell-assembled tissue engineered concepts require prolonged ex vivo culture periods of very high cell numbers for the development of a borderline three-dimensional implantable device, which are associated with phenotypic drift and high manufacturing costs, thus, hindering their clinical translation and commercialisation. Herein, we report the accelerated (10 days) development of a truly three-dimensional (338.1 ± 42.9 μm) scaffold-free tissue equivalent that promotes fast wound healing and induces formation of neotissue composed of mature collagen fibres, using human adipose derived stem cells seeded at only 50,000 cells/cm<sup>2</sup> on an poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-tert-butylacrylamide (PNIPAM86-NTBA14) temperature-responsive electrospun scaffold and grown under macromolecular crowding conditions (50 μg/ml carrageenan). Our data pave the path for a new era in scaffold-free regenerative medicine.