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The effect of geometry on three-dimensional tissue growth.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Rumpler, Monika Woesz, Alexander Dunlop, John W.C van Dongen, Joost T Fratzl, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Tissue formation is determined by uncountable biochemical signals between cells; in addition, physical parameters have been shown to exhibit significant effects on the level of the single cell. Beyond the cell, however, there is still no quantitative understanding of how geometry affects tissue growth, which is of much significance for bone healing and tissue engineering. In this paper, it is shown that the local growth rate of tissue formed by osteoblasts is strongly influenced by the geometrical features of channels in an artificial three-dimensional matrix. Curvature-driven effects and mechanical forces within the tissue may explain the growth patterns as demonstrated by numerical simulation and confocal laser scanning microscopy. This implies that cells within the tissue surface are able to sense and react to radii of curvature much larger than the size of the cells themselves. This has important implications towards the understanding of bone remodelling and defect healing as well as towards scaffold design in bone tissue engineering. |
| ISSN | 17425689 |
| Journal | Journal of the Royal Society Interface |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC2495039 |
| Issue Number | 27 |
| PubMed reference number | 18348957 |
| e-ISSN | 17425662 |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsif.2008.0064 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Royal Society |
| Publisher Date | 2008-10-01 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2008 The Royal Society |
| Subject Keyword | three-dimensional tissue formation scaffold channels bone tissue engineering curvature-driven growth osteoblasts |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Biomaterials Biochemistry Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biotechnology |