Abstract
The increased need to accelerate the healing process of critical size defects in the bone led to the study of optimal combination of cells, materials and external stimuli to obtain fully differentiated tissue to the injured site. Bioreactors play a crucial role in the control over the development of functional tissue allowing control over the surrounding chemical and mechanical environment. This chapter aims to review bioreactor systems currently available for monitoring mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) behaviour under mechanical stimuli and to give an insight of their effect on cellular commitment. Shear stress , mechanical strain and pulsed electromagnetic field bioreactors are presented, and the effect of multiple conditions under varying parameters such as amplitude, frequency or duration of the stimuli on bone progenitor cells differentiation is considered and extensively discussed with particular focus on osteogenic and chondrogenic commitment.
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Brunelli, M., Perrault, C., Lacroix, D. (2019). A Review of Bioreactors and Mechanical Stimuli. In: Multiscale Mechanobiology in Tissue Engineering. Frontiers of Biomechanics, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8075-3_1
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