Synthetic extracellular matrices with tailored adhesiveness and degradability support lumen formation during angiogenic sprouting

Current tissue engineering strategies lack materials that promote angiogenesis. Here the authors develop a microfluidic in vitro model in which chemokine-guided endothelial cell sprouting into a tunable hydrogel is followed by the formation of perfusable lumens to determine the material properties t...

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Main Authors: Jifeng Liu, Hongyan Long, Dagmar Zeuschner, Andreas F. B. Räder, William J. Polacheck, Horst Kessler, Lydia Sorokin, Britta Trappmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23644-5