Innervating 3D in vitro models: bioengineering and design blueprints

abstract

Innervation plays a key role in tissue homeostasis, disease, and repair through-out our lifetimes. Strategies for emulating innervation and its bioinstructive influ-ence on surrounding cells are thus highly desirable to upgrade the organotypic features of human in vitro models. We delve into the latest strategies for generating innervated 3D models that mimic native innervation patterns, and highlight recent advances in bioengineering living platforms for emulating the effect of in-nervation during tissue regeneration or for recapitulating tumor-nerve interplay. We present an overview of the key design blueprints for generating innervated tissue models, highlight the challenges to be overcome, and discuss the biomedical breakthroughs that can branch from such in vitro platforms.

keywords

PERIPHERAL-NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; SCAFFOLD; CELLS; BIOMATERIALS; ORGANOIDS; INVASION; PROMOTE; TISSUES; STATE

subject category

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

authors

de Carvalho, MT; Henriques-Pereira, M; Monteiro, M; Lamghari, M; Mano, JF; Gaspar, VM

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