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Tissue Engineering: Stereolithography‐Based Hydrogel Microenvironments to Examine Cellular Interactions (Adv. Funct. Mater. 19/2011)
Author(s) -
Zorlutuna Pinar,
Jeong Jae Hyun,
Kong Hyunjoon,
Bashir Rashid
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201190080
Subject(s) - stereolithography , materials science , self healing hydrogels , tissue engineering , biocompatible material , hippocampal formation , nanotechnology , courtesy , biomedical engineering , scaffold , biophysics , neuroscience , composite material , polymer chemistry , biology , engineering , political science , law
Unique multifunctional, biodegradable, and biocompatible hydrogels are used to encapsulate hippocampal neurons and myoblast cells using stereolithography to create complex 3D tissue structures. As reported on page 3642 by Rashid Bashir and coworkers, this system is able to accommodate both cell types, while a spatially patterned 3D co‐culture of these cells results in enhanced cholinergic activity of the hippocampal neurons. (Image courtesy of Janet Hanlon‐Sin at ITG Beckman Institute, UIUC).