3D Printing for Bio-Synthetic Biliary Stents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. PVA Stent Fabrication and Crosslinking
2.2. Collagen Injection Mold Chamber Fabrication
2.3. Barium Sulfate Coating and X-Ray Imaging
2.4. XL-PVA Swelling Analysis
2.5. Collagen Preparation
2.6. Isolation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
2.7. Stem Cell Collagen Injection Molding and Stent Maturation
2.8. Cholangiocyte Seeding
2.9. Imaging
3. Results
3.1. Fabrication of XL-PVA Stents and Collagen Injection Molding Chamber
3.2. XL-PVA Swelling Analysis
3.3. Hybrid Stent Cell Culture and Imaging
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. Patents
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Boyer, C.J.; Boktor, M.; Samant, H.; White, L.A.; Wang, Y.; Ballard, D.H.; Huebert, R.C.; Woerner, J.E.; Ghali, G.E.; Alexander, J.S. 3D Printing for Bio-Synthetic Biliary Stents. Bioengineering 2019, 6, 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering6010016
Boyer CJ, Boktor M, Samant H, White LA, Wang Y, Ballard DH, Huebert RC, Woerner JE, Ghali GE, Alexander JS. 3D Printing for Bio-Synthetic Biliary Stents. Bioengineering. 2019; 6(1):16. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering6010016
Chicago/Turabian StyleBoyer, Christen J., Moheb Boktor, Hrishikesh Samant, Luke A. White, Yuping Wang, David H. Ballard, Robert C. Huebert, Jennifer E. Woerner, Ghali E. Ghali, and Jonathan S. Alexander. 2019. "3D Printing for Bio-Synthetic Biliary Stents" Bioengineering 6, no. 1: 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering6010016