A versatile modular bioreactor platform for Tissue Engineering
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- 作者：Sebastian Schuerlein ; Thomas Schwarz ; Steffan Krziminski ; Sabine Gä ; tzner ; Anke Hoppensack ; Ivo Schwedhelm ; Matthias Schweinlin ; Heike Walles and Jan Hansmann
- 刊名：Biotechnology Journal
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：12
- 期：2
- 全文大小：1233K
- ISSN：1860-7314
文摘
Tissue Engineering (TE) bears potential to overcome the persistent shortage of donor organs in transplantation medicine. Additionally, TE products are applied as human test systems in pharmaceutical research to close the gap between animal testing and the administration of drugs to human subjects in clinical trials. However, generating a tissue requires complex culture conditions provided by bioreactors. Currently, the translation of TE technologies into clinical and industrial applications is limited due to a wide range of different tissue-specific, non-disposable bioreactor systems. To ensure a high level of standardization, a suitable cost-effectiveness, and a safe graft production, a generic modular bioreactor platform was developed. Functional modules provide robust control of culture processes, e.g. medium transport, gas exchange, heating, or trapping of floating air bubbles. Characterization revealed improved performance of the modules in comparison to traditional cell culture equipment such as incubators, or peristaltic pumps. By combining the modules, a broad range of culture conditions can be achieved. The novel bioreactor platform allows using disposable components and facilitates tissue culture in closed fluidic systems. By sustaining native carotid arteries, engineering a blood vessel, and generating intestinal tissue models according to a previously published protocol the feasibility and performance of the bioreactor platform was demonstrated.