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Bioengineered gastrointestinal tissues with fibroblast-induced shapes
- Abstract:
- Bioengineered gastrointestinal (GI) tracts have potential applications in regenerative medicine and disease modeling. Methods for engineering tubular GI tracts containing natural extracellular matrix (ECM) are currently limited. Here, the fabrication of collagen tubes with designed shapes by using lipid bilayer supported droplet networks is reported. Droplets containing cells and collagen are arrayed in lipid‐containing oil to form droplet networks, which undergo thermal gelation to provide continuous collagen tubes. A variety of tubular GI tissues are fabricated. For example, human intestinal organoids embedded in the collagen tubes migrate to the luminal surfaces and fuse to form a continuous epithelial layer, mimicking aspects of intestinal tissue structure. Fibroblasts embedded in the collagen induce a cell density dependent contraction of the tubes. Complex tubular structures are produced by patterning droplets containing different densities of fibroblasts. The fibroblast‐containing collagen tubes are seeded with various epithelial cells at their luminal surfaces to form gastric and colonic tissues, which comprise monolayers or multilayers of epithelial cells and fibroblast‐containing subepithelial layers. The engineered gastric tissues are susceptible to infection with Helicobacter pylori. The versatile technique allows the construction of tubular GI tracts containing ECM and layered structures, with broad potential applications in disease research and regenerative medicine.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/adfm.202007514
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- Wiley
- Journal:
- Advanced Functional Materials More from this journal
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 6
- Article number:
- 2007514
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-06
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1616-3028
- ISSN:
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1616-301X
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English
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1141517
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pubs:1141517
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2020-11-10
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- Zhou, L et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 The Authors. Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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