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Growth Modelling Promoting Mechanical Stimulation of Smooth Muscle Cells of Porcine Tubular Organs in a Fibrin-PVDF Scaffold

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Reconstructive surgery and tissue replacements like ureters or bladders reconstruction have been recently studied, taking into account growth and remodelling of cells since living cells are capable of growing, adapting, remodelling or degrading and restoring in order to deform and respond to stimuli. Hence, shapes of ureters or bladders and their microstructure change during growth and these changes strongly depend on external stimuli such as training. We present the mechanical stimulation of smooth muscle cells in a tubular fibrin-PVDFA scaffold and the modelling of the growth of tissue by stimuli. To this end, mechanotransduction was performed with a kyphoplasty balloon catheter that was guided through the lumen of the tubular structure. The bursting pressure was examined to compare the stability of the incubated tissue constructs. The results showed the significant changes on tissues with training by increasing the burst pressure as a characteristic mechanical property and the smooth muscle cells were more oriented with uniformly higher density. Besides, the computational growth models also exhibited the accurate tendencies of growth of the cells under different external stimuli. Such models may lead to design standards for the better layered tissue structure in reconstructing of tubular organs characterized as composite materials such as intestines, ureters and arteries.

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Acknowledgements

The focal cyclic intraluminal mechanical stimulation is based on suggestions by G. M. Artmann. This project was supported in part by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany through the FHprofUnt project “BINGO” (03FH073PX2) and by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology through the project “UREPLACE” (KF0634101SB8).

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  1. Institute for Bioengineering, University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Heinrich-Mußmann-Str. 1, 52428, Jülich, Germany

    Minh Tuấn Dương, Volker Seifarth, Ayşegül Artmann, Gerhard M. Artmann & Manfred Staat

  2. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Immerwahrstraße 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Minh Tuấn Dương

  3. Hanoi University of Science and Technology, No. 1, DaiCoViet Road, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Minh Tuấn Dương

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Dương, M.T., Seifarth, V., Artmann, A., Artmann, G.M., Staat, M. (2018). Growth Modelling Promoting Mechanical Stimulation of Smooth Muscle Cells of Porcine Tubular Organs in a Fibrin-PVDF Scaffold. In: Artmann, G., Artmann, A., Zhubanova, A., Digel, I. (eds) Biological, Physical and Technical Basics of Cell Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7904-7_9

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