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This feature reduces the direct stimulation to the spinal cord tissue by the elastomer and then reduces the immune response or resistance caused by the host spinal cord tissue. Second, the IKVAVS peptide modifies PSeD to create a bioactive interface to support NSC growth and differentiation. In the in vivo study, the number of CD68-positive macrophages decreased in the PSeD-IKVAVS/NSC group compared to that in the SCI group (20% vs 60%). The low inflammation induced by the scaffold was beneficial to NSCs, resulting in increased locomotor recovery, as indicated by the increased Basso-Beattie-Bresnahan score (5, the average score in the PSeD-IKVAVS/NSC group, vs 2, the average score in the SCI group). Based on the above two characteristics, a PSeD-IKVAVS bioelastomer is fabricated, which provides a beneficial and bioactive microenvironment for NSCs after transplantation.Structural bone allograft transplantation remains one of the common strategies for repair and reconstruction of large bone defects. Due to the loss of periosteum that covers the outer surface of the cortical bone, the healing and incorporation of allografts is extremely slow and limited. To enhance the biological performance of allografts, herein, we report a novel and simple approach for engineering a periosteum mimetic coating on the surface of structural bone allografts via polymer-mediated electrospray deposition. This approach enables the coating on allografts with precisely controlled composition and thickness. In addition, the periosteum mimetic coating can be tailored to achieve desired drug release profiles by making use of an appropriate biodegradable polymer or polymer blend. The efficacy study in a murine segmental femoral bone defect model demonstrates that the allograft coating composed of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) and bone morphogenetic protein-2 mimicking peptide significantly improves allograft healing as evidenced by decreased fibrotic tissue formation, increased periosteal bone formation, and enhanced osseointegration. Taken together, this study provides a platform technology for engineering a periosteum mimetic coating which can greatly promote bone allograft healing. This technology could eventually result in an off-the-shelf and multifunctional structural bone allograft for highly effective repair and reconstruction of large segmental bone defects. The technology can also be used to ameliorate the performance of other medical implants by modifying their surfaces.Providing control over the geometric shape of cell-laden hydrogel microspheroids, such as diameter and axial ratio, is critical for their use in biomedical applications. Building on our previous work establishing a microfluidic platform for production of large cell-laden microspheres, here we establish the ability to produce microspheroids with varying axial ratio (microrods) and elucidate the mechanisms controlling microspheroidal geometry. Microspheroids with radial diameters ranging from 300 to over 1000 μm and axial ratios from 1.3 to 3.6 were produced. Although for microfluidic devices with small channel sizes (typically less then 500 μm) the mechanisms governing geometric control have been investigated, these relationships were not directly translatable to production of larger microspheroids (radial diameter 102 - 103 μm) in microfluidic devices with larger channel sizes (up to 1000 μm). In particular as channel size was increased, fluid density differences became more influential in geometric control. We found that two parameters, narrowing ratio (junction diameter over outlet diameter) and flow fraction (discrete phase flow rate over total flow rate), were critical in adjusting the capillary number, modulation of which has been previously shown to enable control over microspheroid diameter and axial ratio. By changing the device design and the experimental conditions, we exploited the relationship between these parameters to predictably modulate microspheroid geometric shape. Finally, we demonstrated the applicability to tissue engineering through encapsulation of fibroblasts and endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) in hydrogel microspheroids with different axial ratios and negligible loss of cell viability. This study advances microfluidic production of large cell-laden microspheroids (microspheres and microrods) with controllable size and geometry, opening the door for further investigation of geometric shape-related biomedical applications such as engineered tissue formation.Recent advances in embedded three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting have expanded the design space for fabricating geometrically complex tissue scaffolds using hydrogels with mechanical properties comparable to native tissues and organs in the human body. The advantage of approaches such as Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) printing is the ability to embed soft biomaterials in a thermoreversible support bath at sizes ranging from a few millimeters to centimeters. In this study, we were able to expand this printable size range by FRESH bioprinting a full-size model of an adult human heart from patient-derived magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sets. We used alginate as the printing biomaterial to mimic the elastic modulus of cardiac tissue. In addition to achieving high print fidelity on a low-cost printer platform, FRESH-printed alginate proved to create mechanically tunable and suturable models. EGFR inhibitor This demonstrates that large-scale 3D bioprinting of soft hydrogels is possible using FRESH and that cardiac tissue constructs can be produced with potential future applications in surgical training and planning.The human amniotic membrane (HAM) has been viewed as a potential regenerative material for a wide variety of injured tissues because of its collagen-rich content. High degradability of HAM limits its wide practical application in bone tissue engineering. In this study, the natural matrix of the decellularized amniotic membrane was developed by the double diffusion method. The results confirmed a reduction of the amniotic membrane's degradability because of the deposition of calcium and phosphate ions during the double diffusion process. Real-time PCR results showed a high expression of osteogenesis-related genes from adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) cultured on the surface of the developed mineralized amniotic membrane (MAM). Further in vivo experiments were conducted using an MAM preseeded with ADMSCs and a critical-size rat calvarial defect model. Histopathological results confirmed that the MAM + cell sample has excellent potential in bone regeneration.EGFR inhibitor