Cell sheet engineering--fabrication and utilization of patterned cell sheet

Tissue engineering seeks to provide regenerated tissue architectures in vitro but has not yet successfully created thick, highly vascularized, multi-functional tissues replicating native structure. We have proposed cell sheet engineering to overcome the problems of tissue engineering. And we have fo...

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Published inNihon rinshō Vol. 66; no. 5; p. 887
Main Authors Itoga, Kazuyoshi, Okano, Teruo
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published Japan 01.05.2008
Subjects
Animals
Cytological Techniques - instrumentation
Cytological Techniques - methods
Humans
Tissue Engineering - instrumentation
Tissue Engineering - methods
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Summary:Tissue engineering seeks to provide regenerated tissue architectures in vitro but has not yet successfully created thick, highly vascularized, multi-functional tissues replicating native structure. We have proposed cell sheet engineering to overcome the problems of tissue engineering. And we have focused attention on micropatterned structure of cells in tissue. Therefore we have developed maskless photolithography devices equipped with LCD-projectors to fabricate micropatterned surfaces rapidly and easily. In this paper, we introduce the fabrication technique of cell micropatterns with the maskless photolithography device. And we describe our recent approaches to fabricate vascularized tissue equivalents using cell sheet engineering and the cell micropatterning technique.
ISSN:0047-1852