Textile Technologies and Tissue Engineering: A Path Toward Organ Weaving

Mohsen Akbari; Ali Tamayol; Sara Bagherifard; Ludovic Serex; Pooria Mostafalu; Negar Faramarzi; Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi; Ali Khademhosseini

doi:10.1002/adhm.201500517

Textile Technologies and Tissue Engineering: A Path Toward Organ Weaving

Adv Healthc Mater. 2016 Apr 6;5(7):751-66. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201500517. Epub 2016 Feb 29.

Authors

Mohsen Akbari^{1

2

3

4}, Ali Tamayol^{1

2

3}, Sara Bagherifard^{1

2

5

6}, Ludovic Serex^{1

2}, Pooria Mostafalu^{1

2

3}, Negar Faramarzi^{1

2}, Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi², Ali Khademhosseini^{1

2

3

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
² Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
³ Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 20156, Italy.
⁶ David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21569, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Department of Bioindustrial Technologies, College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-701, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Textile technologies have recently attracted great attention as potential biofabrication tools for engineering tissue constructs. Using current textile technologies, fibrous structures can be designed and engineered to attain the required properties that are demanded by different tissue engineering applications. Several key parameters such as physiochemical characteristics of fibers, microarchitecture, and mechanical properties of the fabrics play important roles in the effective use of textile technologies in tissue engineering. This review summarizes the current advances in the manufacturing of biofunctional fibers. Different textile methods such as knitting, weaving, and braiding are discussed and their current applications in tissue engineering are highlighted.

Keywords: biofabrication; biomaterials; fiber-based techniques; scaffolds; textile technologies; tissue engineering.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Biocompatible Materials / chemistry
Biomedical Technology / methods*
Humans
Organ Specificity*
Textiles*
Tissue Engineering / methods*

Substances

Biocompatible Materials

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