3D Sugar Printing of Networks Mimicking the Vasculature.

ABSTRACT: The vasculature plays a central role as the highway of the body, through which nutrients and oxygen as well as biochemical factors and signals are distributed by blood flow. Therefore, understanding the flow and distribution of particles inside the vasculature is valuable both in healthy and disease-associated networks. By creating models that mimic the microvasculature fundamental knowledge can be obtained about these parameters. However, microfabrication of such models remains a challenging goal. In this paper we demonstrate a promising 3D sugar printing method that is capable of recapitulating the vascular network geometry with a vessel diameter range of 1 mm down to 150 µm. For this work a dedicated 3D printing setup was built that is capable of accurately printing the sugar glass mate

SUBMITTER: Pollet AMAO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7019326 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature