Immunocompetent 3D model of human upper airway for disease modeling and in vitro drug evaluation

Harrington, Helen; Cato, Paul; Salazar, Fabian; Wilkinson, Malcolm; Knox, Alan; Haycock, John W.; Rose, Felicity; Aylott, Jonathan W.; Ghaemmaghami, Amir M.

doi:10.1021/mp5000295

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Utilizing nanosensor-incorporated scaffolds in the development of a 3D lung model (2014)
Book Chapter
Harrington, H. C., Rose, F. R., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Aylott, J. W. (2014). Utilizing nanosensor-incorporated scaffolds in the development of a 3D lung model. In J. Haycock, A. Ahluwalia, & J. M. Wilkinson (Eds.), Cellular In Vitro Testing (89-107). Jenny Stanford Publishing

Human airway smooth muscle maintain in situ cell orientation and phenotype when cultured on aligned electrospun scaffolds (2014)
Journal Article
Morris, G., Bridge, J., Eltboli, O., Lewis, M., Knox, A., Aylott, J. W., …Rose, F. R. (2014). Human airway smooth muscle maintain in situ cell orientation and phenotype when cultured on aligned electrospun scaffolds. AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 307(1), Article L38-L47. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00318.2013

Human airway smooth muscle (HASM) contraction plays a central role in regulating airway resistance in both healthy and asthmatic bronchioles. In vitro studies that investigate the intricate mechanisms that regulate this contractile process are predom... Read More about Human airway smooth muscle maintain in situ cell orientation and phenotype when cultured on aligned electrospun scaffolds.

Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 1: Assessment of novel growth-factor-releasing hydrogels in an ex vivo chick femur defect model (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, E., Rose, F., Kanczler, J., Shakesheff, K., Gothard, D., White, L., …Oreffoa, R. (2014). Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 1: Assessment of novel growth-factor-releasing hydrogels in an ex vivo chick femur defect model. Acta Biomaterialia, 10(10), 4186-4196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2014.06.011

Current clinical treatments for skeletal conditions resulting in large-scale bone loss include autograft or allograft, both of which have limited effectiveness. In seeking to address bone regeneration, several tissue engineering strategies have come... Read More about Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 1: Assessment of novel growth-factor-releasing hydrogels in an ex vivo chick femur defect model.

A novel electrospun biphasic scaffold provides optimal three-dimensional topography forin vitroco-culture of airway epithelial and fibroblast cells (2014)
Journal Article
Morris, G., Bridge, J., Brace, L., Knox, A., Aylott, J. W., Brightling, C., …Rose, F. R. (2014). A novel electrospun biphasic scaffold provides optimal three-dimensional topography forin vitroco-culture of airway epithelial and fibroblast cells. Biofabrication, 6(3), Article 035014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5082/6/3/035014

Conventional airway in vitro models focus upon the function of individual structural cells cultured in a two-dimensional monolayer, with limited three-dimensional (3D) models of the bronchial mucosa. Electrospinning offers an attractive method to pro... Read More about A novel electrospun biphasic scaffold provides optimal three-dimensional topography forin vitroco-culture of airway epithelial and fibroblast cells.

Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 2: Enhancement of skeletal tissue repair through dual-growth-factor-releasing hydrogels within an ex vivo chick femur defect model (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, E., Felicity, R., Kanczler, J., Shakesheff, K., Gothard, D., White, L., …Oreffoa, R. (2014). Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 2: Enhancement of skeletal tissue repair through dual-growth-factor-releasing hydrogels within an ex vivo chick femur defect model. Acta Biomaterialia, 10(10), 4197-4205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2014.05.025

There is an unmet need for improved, effective tissue engineering strategies to replace or repair bone damaged through disease or injury. Recent research has focused on developing biomaterial scaffolds capable of spatially and temporally releasing co... Read More about Evaluation of skeletal tissue repair, Part 2: Enhancement of skeletal tissue repair through dual-growth-factor-releasing hydrogels within an ex vivo chick femur defect model.

A novel technique for the production of electrospun scaffolds with tailored three-dimensional micro-patterns employing additive manufacturing (2014)
Journal Article
Rogers, C. M., Morris, G. E., Gould, T. W., Bail, R., Toumpaniari, S., Harrington, H., …Rose, F. R. A. J. (2014). A novel technique for the production of electrospun scaffolds with tailored three-dimensional micro-patterns employing additive manufacturing. Biofabrication, 6(3), 035003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5082/6/3/035003

Electrospinning is a common technique used to fabricate fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. There is now growing interest in assessing the ability of collector plate design to influence the patterning of the fibres during the elect... Read More about A novel technique for the production of electrospun scaffolds with tailored three-dimensional micro-patterns employing additive manufacturing.

Immunocompetent 3D model of human upper airway for disease modeling and in vitro drug evaluation (2014)
Journal Article
Harrington, H., Cato, P., Salazar, F., Wilkinson, M., Knox, A., Haycock, J. W., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2014). Immunocompetent 3D model of human upper airway for disease modeling and in vitro drug evaluation. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 11(7), 2082-2091. https://doi.org/10.1021/mp5000295

The development of more complex in vitro models for the assessment of novel drugs and chemicals is needed because of the limited biological relevance of animal models to humans as well as ethical considerations. Although some human-cell-based assays... Read More about Immunocompetent 3D model of human upper airway for disease modeling and in vitro drug evaluation.