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Abstract Introduction
Tissue engineering is a new and exciting technique which This review will present the current state of the art of
has the potential to create tissues and organs de novo. It tissue engineering, with particular emphasis on the scaf-
involves the in vitro seeding and attachment of human folds on which tissue can be formed. The important role
cells onto a scaffold. These cells then proliferate, migrate of the scaffold will be discussed and the conventional
and differentiate into the specific tissue while secreting scaffold fabrication techniques will be introduced, high-
the extracellular matrix components required to create the lighting the limitations of these fabrication techniques
tissue. It is evident, therefore, that the choice of scaffold and the need to find other ways to create scaffolds with
is crucial to enable the cells to behave in the required man- complex internal features. In particular, the use of solid
ner to produce tissues and organs of the desired shape and freeform fabrication (SFF) to produce customised scaf-
size. Current scaffolds, made by conventional scaffold fab- folds with controlled internal microarchitecture will be
rication techniques, are generally foams of synthetic poly- addressed and the current SFF technologies being ap-
mers. The cells do not necessarily recognise such surfaces, plied to scaffold fabrication will be reviewed.
and most importantly cells cannot migrate more than
500µm from the surface. The lack of oxygen and nutrient Tissue Engineering
supply governs this depth. Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field which in-
uses layer-manufacturing strategies to create physical ob- volves the ‘application of the principles and methods of
jects directly from computer-generated models. It can engineering and life sciences towards the fundamental
improve current scaffold design by controlling scaffold understanding of structure-function relationships in nor-
parameters such as pore size, porosity and pore distribu- mal and pathological mammalian tissues and the devel-
tion, as well as incorporating an artificial vascular sys- opment of biological substitutes that restore, maintain or
tem, thereby increasing the mass transport of oxygen and improve tissue function’ (Shalak and Fox, 1988). The
nutrients into the interior of the scaffold and supporting goal of tissue engineering is to surpass the limitations of
cellular growth in that region. Several SFF systems have conventional treatments based on organ transplantation
produced tissue-engineering scaffolds with this concept in and biomaterial implantation (Langer and Vacanti, 1993).
mind, which will be the main focus of this review. We are It has the potential to produce a supply of
developing scaffolds from collagen and with an internal immunologically tolerant ‘artificial’ organ and tissue
vascular architecture using SFF. Collagen has major ad- substitutes that can grow with the patient. This should
vantages as it provides a favourable surface for cellular lead to a permanent solution to the damaged organ or
attachment. The vascular system allows for the supply of tissue without the need for supplementary therapies, thus
nutrients and oxygen throughout the scaffold. The future making it a cost-effective treatment in the long term
of tissue engineering scaffolds is intertwined with SFF tech- (Patrick et al., 1998).
nologies. One of the principle methods behind tissue engineer-
ing involves growing the relevant cell(s) in vitro into the
Key Words: Tissue engineering, scaffold, collagen, syn- required three-dimensional (3D) organ or tissue. But
thetic polymers, solid freeform fabrication, rapid cells lack the ability to grow in favoured 3D orientations
prototyping, artificial vascular system, microarchitecture. and thus define the anatomical shape of the tissue. In-
stead, they randomly migrate to form a two-dimensional
(2D) layer of cells. However, 3D tissues are required
and this is achieved by seeding the cells onto porous
matrices, known as scaffolds, to which the cells attach
and colonise (Langer and Vacanti, 1993). The scaffold
therefore is a very important component for tissue engi-
neering.
*Address for correspondence: Several requirements have been identified as crucial
J.T. Czernuszka for the production of tissue engineering scaffolds
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, (Hutmacher, 2001): (1) the scaffold should possess in-
Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK terconnecting pores of appropriate scale to favour tissue
FAX Number: +44-1865-273789 integration and vascularisation, (2) be made from mate-
E-mail: jan.czernuszka@materials.ox.ac.uk rial with controlled biodegradability or bioresorbability
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so that tissue will eventually replace the scaffold, (3) have Solvent-casting particulate-leaching
appropriate surface chemistry to favour cellular attach- This technique involves producing a solution of PLLA in
ment, differentiation and proliferation, (4) possess ad- chloroform and adding salt particles of a specific diam-
equate mechanical properties to match the intended site eter to produce a uniform suspension (Mikos et al., 1994,
of implantation and handling, (5) should not induce any 1996). The solvent is allowed to evaporate leaving be-
adverse response and, (6) be easily fabricated into a vari- hind a polymer matrix with salt particles embedded
ety of shapes and sizes. Bearing these requirements in throughout. The composite is then immersed in water
mind, several materials have been adopted or synthesised where the salt leaches out to produce a porous structure.
and fabricated into scaffolds. A lamination technique using chloroform as the binder
was proposed to shape these scaffolds into 3D structures
Scaffold Materials (Mikos et al., 1993a).
Investigations into synthetic and natural inorganic ceramic
materials (e.g. hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate) Gas foaming
as candidate scaffold material have been aimed mostly at A biodegradable polymer, such as PLGA is saturated with
bone tissue engineering (Burg et al., 2000). This is be- carbon dioxide (CO2) at high pressures (Mooney et al.,
cause these ceramics resemble the natural inorganic com- 1996). The solubility of the gas in the polymer is then
ponent of bone and have osteoconductive properties decreased rapidly by bringing the CO2 pressure back to
(LeGeros, 2002). However, these ceramics are inherently atmospheric level. This results in nucleation and growth
brittle and cannot match the mechanical properties of bone. of gas bubbles, or cells, with sizes ranging between 100-
It should be mentioned that bone is a composite compris- 500 µm in the polymer.
ing a polymer matrix reinforced with ceramic particles.
The polymer is the protein collagen, 30% dry weight, and Fibre meshes/fibre bonding
hydroxyapatite (HA), 70% dry weight. Moreover, ceramic Fibres, produced by textile technology, have been used to
scaffolds cannot be expected to be appropriate for the make non-woven scaffolds from PGA and PLLA (Cima
growth of soft tissues (e.g. heart muscle tissue) consider- et al., 1991). The lack of structural stability of these non-
ing that these tissues possess different cellular receptors woven scaffolds, often resulted in significant deforma-
and mechanical property requirements. Synthetic and tion due to contractile forces of the cells that have been
natural polymers are an attractive alternative and versa- seeded on the scaffold. This led to the development of a
tile in their applications to the growth of most tissues. fibre bonding technique to increase the mechanical prop-
erties of the scaffolds (Mikos et al., 1993b). This is
Synthetic polymers achieved by dissolving PLLA in methylene chloride and
Aliphatic polyesters such as polyglycolic acid (PGA), casting over the PGA mesh. The solvent is allowed to
polylactic acid (PLLA), their copolymers (e.g. PLGA) and evaporate and the construct is then heated above the melt-
polycaprolactone (PCL) are the most commonly used poly- ing point of PGA. Once the PGA-PLLA construct has
mers for tissue engineering scaffold applications (Freed cooled, the PLLA is removed by dissolving in methylene
and Vunjak-Novakovic, 1998; Agrawal and Ray, 2001; chloride again. This treatment results in a mesh of PGA
Hutmacher 2001). The degradation products of these poly- fibres joined at the cross-points.
mers (glycolic acid and lactic acid) are present in the hu-
man body and are removed by natural metabolic path- Phase separation
ways. For a comprehensive review on synthetic polymers A biodegradable synthetic polymer is dissolved in mol-
used in tissue engineering scaffolds, the reader is referred ten phenol or naphthalene and biologically active mol-
to Griffith (2000) and Hayashi (1994). ecules such as alkaline phosphatase can be added to the
solution (Lo et al., 1995). The temperature is then low-
Natural polymers ered to produce a liquid-liquid phase separation and
Naturally derived protein or carbohydrate polymers have quenched to form a two-phase solid. The solvent is re-
been used as scaffolds for the growth of several tissue types. moved by sublimation to give a porous scaffold with
By far the most popular natural polymer used for tissue bioactive molecules incorporated in the structure.
engineering scaffolds is collagen. The reader is referred
to Hayashi (1994) for a review on biodegradable natural Melt moulding
polymers. This process involves filling a Teflon mould with PLGA
powder and gelatine microspheres, of specific diameter,
Conventional Scaffold Fabrication Techniques and then heating the mould above the glass-transition
temperature of PLGA while applying pressure to the mix-
Several techniques have been developed to process syn- ture (Thompson et al.,1995a). This treatment causes the
thetic and natural scaffold materials into porous struc- PLGA particles to bond together. Once the mould is re-
tures. These conventional scaffold fabrication techniques moved, the gelatin component is leached out by immers-
are defined herein as processes that create scaffolds hav- ing in water and the scaffold is then dried. Scaffolds
ing a continuous, uninterrupted pore structure which lacks produced this way assume the shape of the mould. The
any long-range channelling microarchitecture. A descrip- melt moulding process was modified to incorporate short
tion of the different techniques follows. fibres of HA. A uniform distribution of HA fibres through-
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out the PLGA scaffold could only be accomplished by us- ucts which raise concerns that the scaffold
ing a solvent-casting technique to prepare a composite ma- microenvironment may not be ideal for tissue growth.
terial of HA fibres, PLGA matrix and gelatine or salt Lactic acid is releases from PLLA during degradation
porogen, which was then used in the melt moulding proc- (Reed and Gilding, 1981), reducing the pH, which fur-
ess (Thompson et al., 1995b). ther accelerates the degradation rate due to autocataly-
sis (Vert et al., 1994), resulting in a highly acidic envi-
Emulsion freeze drying ronment adjacent to the polymer. Such an environment
This process involves adding ultrapure water to a solution may adversely affect cellular function (Kohn et al.,
of methylene chloride with PGA (Whang et al., 1995). The 2002). Cells attached to scaffolds are faced with sev-
two immiscible layers are then homogenised to form a wa- eral weeks of in vitro culturing before the tissue is suit-
ter-in-oil emulsion, which is then quenched in liquid nitro- able for implantation. During this period, even small
gen and freeze-dried to produce the porous structure. pH changes (6.8-7.5) in the scaffold microenvironment
can significantly affect bone marrow stromal cell ex-
Solution Casting pression of osteoblastic phenotypic markers (Kohn et
PLGA is dissolved in chloroform and then precipitated by al., 2002). Furthermore, particles released during poly-
the addition of methanol (Reuber et al., 1987; Schmitz and mer degradation can affect bone-remodelling processes
Hollinger, 1988). Demineralised freeze-dried bone can be (Wake et al., 1998) along with eliciting an inflamma-
combined with the PLGA, and the composite material is tory response and inducing bone resorption in vivo
then pressed into a mould and heated to 45-48oC for 24h to (Bergsma et al., 1995; Suganuma and Alexander, 1993).
create the scaffold. Moreover, current synthetic polymers do not possess a
surface chemistry which is familiar to cells, that in vivo
Freeze drying thrive on an extracellular matrix made mostly of colla-
Synthetic polymers, such as PLGA, are dissolved in glacial gen, elastin, glycoproteins, proteoglycans, laminin and
acetic acid or benzene. The resultant solution is then fro- fibronectin (Alberts et al., 1994). In contrast, collagen
zen and freeze-dried to yield porous matrices (Hsu et al., is the major protein constituent of the extracellular ma-
1997). Similarly, collagen scaffolds have been made by trix and is recognised by cells (Kleinman et al., 1981)
freezing a dispersion or solution of collagen and then freeze- as well as being chemotactic (Postlethwaite et al., 1978).
drying (Yannas et al., 1980). Freezing the dispersion or Collagen scaffolds presents a more native surface rela-
solution results in the formation of ice crystals that force tive to synthetic polymer scaffolds for tissue engineer-
and aggregate the collagen molecules into the interstitial ing purposes. However, like other natural polymers, it
spaces. The ice crystals are then removed by freeze-dry- may elicit an immune response (Arem, 1985). The an-
ing. The pore size can be controlled by the freezing rate tigenicity of collagen can be reduced by treating with
and pH; a fast freezing rate produces smaller pores pepsin to remove the telopeptide regions or by
(Dagalakis et al., 1980; Doillon et al., 1986). Unidirec- crosslinking (Chevally and Herbage, 2000).
tional solidification has been used to create a homogenous Conventional scaffold fabrication techniques are in-
3D-pore structure (Schoof et al., 2000, 2001). Dehydra- capable of precisely controlling pore size, pore geom-
tion of the frozen collagen using ethanol and then critical etry, spatial distribution of pores and construction of
point drying has also been used to make collagen scaffolds internal channels within the scaffold. Scaffolds pro-
(Dagalakis et al., 1980, Sachlos et al., 2003). These colla- duced by solvent-casting particulate-leaching cannot
gen scaffolds are then crosslinked by either physical or guarantee interconnection of pores because this is de-
chemical means to reduce the solubility, antigenicity and pendent on whether the adjacent salt particles are in
degradation rate. Physical crosslinking involves exposing contact. Furthermore, skin layers are formed during
to ultraviolet (Miyata et al., 1971) or gamma irradiation evaporation and agglomeration of salt particles makes
(Miyata et al., 1980), or dehydrothermal treatment controlling the pore size difficult (Hutmacher, 2001).
(Weadock et al., 1983-84; Thompson and Czernuszka Moreover, only thin scaffold cross-sections can be pro-
1995). Chemical crosslinking is achieved by the use of duced due to difficulty in removing salt particles deep
bifunctional agents like glutaraldehyde (GTA) (Ruijgrok et in the matrix. For gas foaming, it has been reported
al., 1994) and hexamethylene diisocyanate (Olde Damink that only 10-30% of the pores were interconnected
et al., 1995) or by carboxyl group activation with (Mooney et al., 1996). Non-woven fibre meshes have
carbodiimides (Weadock et al., 1983-84). Other natural poor mechanical integrity. Excluding gas foaming and
polymers like chitin (Madihally and Matthew, 1999) and melt moulding, conventional scaffold fabrication tech-
alginate (Glicklis et al., 2000) are also fabricated into scaf- niques use organic solvents, like chloroform and meth-
folds using freezing-drying. ylene chloride, to dissolve synthetic polymers at some
stage in the process. The presence of residual organic
Limitations of current tissue engineering scaffolds solvent is the most significant problem facing these tech-
Several detailed investigations have shown that cells at- niques due to the risks of toxicity and carcinogenicity it
tach to synthetic polymer scaffolds leading to the forma- poses to cells.
tion of tissue, summarised by Freed and Vunjak-Novakovic In addition, conventional fabrication techniques pro-
(1998). However, the degradation of synthetic polymers, duce scaffolds that are foam structures. Cells are then
both in vitro and in vivo conditions, releases acidic by-prod- seeded and expected to grow into the scaffold. How-
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Stereolithography (SLA)
(Hull, 1990)
The process involves selective polymerisation of a liquid
photocurable monomer by an ultraviolet laser beam. The Figure 3: Schematic diagram of the Stereolithography
UV beam is guided (x- and y-axis control) onto the liquid (SLA) system.
monomer surface in accordance to the CAD cross-sectional
data. After the first layer is built, the elevator holding the
model is lowered into the vat (z-axis control) so as to allow
the liquid photopolymer to cover the surface. A ‘wiper arm’
is then displaced over the liquid to flatten the surface. The
procedure is repeated until the model is completed. This
system requires support structures to be added to the model,
to prevent any overhanging or unconnected features from
falling to the bottom of the liquid-filled vat. After comple-
tion, the model is raised and any support structures are re-
moved manually. Figure 3 shows this system.
3D Plotter
(Landers and Mulhaupt, 2000)
This system, developed by researchers at the University of
Freiburg, involves a moving extruder head (x-, y- and z-axis
control) and uses compressed air to force out a liquid or paste-
like plotting medium. The extruder head can be heated to
the required temperature. The medium solidifies when it Figure 5: Schematic diagram of the 3D Bioplotter sys-
comes in contact with the substrate or previous layer. Fig- tem.
ure 5 shows this system.
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E. Sachlos and J.T. Czernuszka. Making tissue engineering scaffolds work
M. Dalby: For the collagen / HA composite intended for modulus is controlled via several routes - firstly by the
bone tissue engineering, how mechanically similar to bone components comprising the scaffold itself, secondly the
is the material and what is the percentage of HA incorpo- scale and size of the porosity and thirdly, the dimensions
rated - will there be enough to truly effect osteoblast re- and shape of any internal channels. It is this degree of
sponse? In order for such a material to be used in load- control which makes solid free-form fabrication such a
bearing applications, the material should be able to sup- useful tool in making scaffolds. The scaffold of bone tis-
port the rigors of walking etc. Perhaps it is intended that sue augmentation has a Young’s modulus of approximately
once osseointegration has taken place the formation of 2 GPa.. This is similar to many artificial polymers, but
bone within the scaffold will be able to take the load? we use the natural components - collagen and hydroxya-
A. Curtis: Would the authors like to comment on (1) The patite. The response of osteoprogenitor cells to this class
degree of accuracy and reproducibility in fabrication that of biomaterial is superior to that found with artificial poly-
is desired, and (2) The desirable mechanical properties of mers.
the polymer?
Authors: These two questions are answered together. The Additional Reference
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