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ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 29-39Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2015.09.003
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Microfluidic techniques; Bottom-up tissue engineering; 3D tissue fabrication; Cellular building blocks; Clinical treatments
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Microsized cellular constructs such as cellular aggregates and cell-laden hydrogel blocks are attractive cellular building blocks to reconstruct 3D macroscopic tissues with spatially ordered cells in bottom-up tissue engineering. In this regard, microfluidic techniques are remarkable methods to form microsized cellular constructs with high production rate and control of their shapes such as point, line, and plane. The fundamental shapes of the cellular constructs allow for the fabrication of larger arbitrary-shaped tissues by assembling them. This review introduces microfluidic formation methods of microsized cellular constructs and manipulation techniques to assemble them with control of their arrangements. Additionally, we show applications of the cellular constructs to biological studies and clinical treatments and discuss future trends as their potential applications. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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