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ArticleBioengineering & translational medicine2023

Stirred culture of cartilaginous microtissues promotes chondrogenic hypertrophy through exposure to intermittent shear stress.

Niki Loverdou, Maxim Cuvelier, Gabriella Nilsson Hall, An-Sofie Christiaens, Isaak Decoene, Kristel Bernaerts, Bart Smeets, Herman Ramon, Frank P Luyten, Liesbet Geris and 1 more

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Article in Bioengineering & translational medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Niki LoverdouPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0802-1570
Maxim CuvelierPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
Gabriella Nilsson HallPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
An-Sofie ChristiaensDepartment of Chemical Engineering KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan Leuven Belgium.
Isaak DecoenePrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
Kristel BernaertsDepartment of Chemical Engineering KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan Leuven Belgium.
Bart SmeetsPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
Herman RamonBiosystems Department MeBioS, KU Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg Leuven Belgium.
Frank P LuytenPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
Liesbet GerisPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.
Ioannis PapantoniouPrometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering KU Leuven Leuven Herestraat Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4754-5492
Prometheus Research (United States) · USKU Leuven · BEUniversity of Liège · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cartilage microtissues are promising tissue modules for bottom up biofabrication of implants leading to bone defect regeneration. Hitherto, most of the protocols for the development of these cartilaginous microtissues have been carried out in static setups, however, for achieving higher scales, dynamic process needs to be investigated. In the present study, we explored the impact of suspension culture on the cartilage microtissues in a novel stirred microbioreactor system. To study the effect of the process shear stress, experiments with three different impeller velocities were carried out. Moreover, we used mathematical modeling to estimate the magnitude of shear stress on the individual microtissues during dynamic culture. Identification of appropriate mixing intensity allowed dynamic bioreactor culture of the microtissues for up to 14 days maintaining microtissue suspension. Dynamic culture did not affect microtissue viability, although lower proliferation was observed as opposed to the statically cultured ones. However, when assessing cell differentiation, gene expression values showed significant upregulation of both Indian Hedgehog (

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bioreactorcartilage microtissuesexometabolomicsmathematical modelingshear stress

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PMID37206246
PMCPMC10189438
OpenAlexW4313317125

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