Engineered skeletal muscle tissue for soft robotics: fabrication strategies, current applications, and future challenges

Microcontact Printing of Fibronectin on a Biodegradable Polymeric Surface for Skeletal Muscle Cell Orientation

(2018) Lina Altomare et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research

(2015) Deepak Trivedi et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Carbon Nanotubes Instruct Physiological Growth and Functionally Mature Syncytia: Nongenetic Engineering of Cardiac Myocytes

(2013) Valentina Martinelli et al.   ACS Nano

Optimizing the structure and contractility of engineered skeletal muscle thin films

(2013) Y. Sun et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Dielectrophoretically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes to Control Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Hydrogels to Fabricate Contractile Muscle Myofibers

(2013) Javier Ramón-Azcón et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering skeletal muscle repair

(2013) Mark Juhas et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineered Nanomembranes for Directing Cellular Organization Toward Flexible Biodevices

(2013) Toshinori Fujie et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electrical stimulation as a biomimicry tool for regulating muscle cell behavior

(2013) Samad Ahadian et al.   Organogenesis

A Topographically Modified Substrate-Embedded MEA for Directed Myotube Formation at Electrode Contact Sites

(2012) Christopher G. Langhammer et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Synergic effects of nanofiber alignment and electroactivity on myoblast differentiation

(2012) Sook Hee Ku et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A contactless electrical stimulator: application to fabricate functional skeletal muscle tissue

(2012) Samad Ahadian et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Tissue engineering on the nanoscale: lessons from the heart

(2012) Sharon Fleischer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Interdigitated array of Pt electrodes for electrical stimulation and engineering of aligned muscle tissue

(2012) Samad Ahadian et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Formation and optogenetic control of engineered 3D skeletal muscle bioactuators

(2012) Mahmut Selman Sakar et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Micropatterning Topology on Soft Substrates Affects Myoblast Proliferation and Differentiation

(2012) Susi Zatti et al.   LANGMUIR

A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

(2012) Janna C Nawroth et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Rapid casting of patterned vascular networks for perfusable engineered three-dimensional tissues

(2012) Jordan S. Miller et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Fabrication of functional three-dimensional tissues by stacking cell sheets in vitro

(2012) Yuji Haraguchi et al.   Nature Protocols

Isolation and Maintenance-Free Culture of Contractile Myotubes from Manduca sexta Embryos

(2012) Amanda L. Baryshyan et al.   PLoS One

Development of Polydimethylsiloxane Substrates with Tunable Elastic Modulus to Study Cell Mechanobiology in Muscle and Nerve

(2012) Rachelle N. Palchesko et al.   PLoS One

In vitro microvessels for the study of angiogenesis and thrombosis

(2012) Y. Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Murine Model of Volumetric Muscle Loss and a Regenerative Medicine Approach for Tissue Replacement

(2012) Brian M. Sicari et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Engineered Contractile Skeletal Muscle Tissue on a Microgrooved Methacrylated Gelatin Substrate

(2012) Vahid Hosseini et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Development of Miniaturized Walking Biological Machines

(2012) Vincent Chan et al.   Scientific Reports

Muscle on a chip: In vitro contractility assays for smooth and striated muscle

(2012) Anna Grosberg et al.   JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL METHODS

Bioprinting of growth factors onto aligned sub-micron fibrous scaffolds for simultaneous control of cell differentiation and alignment

(2011) Elmer D.F. Ker et al.   BIOMATERIALS

The role of extracellular matrix composition in structure and function of bioengineered skeletal muscle

(2011) Sara Hinds et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Skeletal myotube integration with planar microelectrode arrays in vitro for spatially selective recording and stimulation: A comparison of neuronal and myotube extracellular action potentials

(2011) Christopher G. Langhammer et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Regeneration of skeletal muscle

(2011) Neill J. Turner et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Biomimetic tissues on a chip for drug discovery

(2011) Amir M. Ghaemmaghami et al.   DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Generation of skeletal muscle cells from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells as anin vitromodel and for therapy of muscular dystrophies

(2011) Sabrina Salani et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Ensembles of engineered cardiac tissues for physiological and pharmacological study: Heart on a chip

(2011) Anna Grosberg et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Nanowired three-dimensional cardiac patches

(2011) Tal Dvir et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Biological cardio-micro-pumps for microbioreactors and analytical micro-systems

(2011) Maciej Pilarek et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

A Tissue-Engineered Muscle Repair Construct for Functional Restoration of an Irrecoverable Muscle Injury in a Murine Model

(2011) Masood A. Machingal et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Local Tissue Geometry Determines Contractile Force Generation of Engineered Muscle Networks

(2011) Weining Bian et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Biohybrid thin films for measuring contractility in engineered cardiovascular muscle

(2010) Patrick W. Alford et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Assembly and Dynamics of Myofibrils

(2010) Joseph W. Sanger et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Spatiotemporally controlled contraction of micropatterned skeletal muscle cells on a hydrogel sheet

(2010) Kuniaki Nagamine et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Measurement of Contractile Stress Generated by Cultured Rat Muscle on Silicon Cantilevers for Toxin Detection and Muscle Performance Enhancement

(2010) Kerry Wilson et al.   PLoS One

Substrate Elasticity Regulates Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Culture

(2010) P. M. Gilbert et al.   SCIENCE

Effect of MicroRNA Modulation on Bioartificial Muscle Function

(2010) Caroline Rhim et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Functional Evaluation of Artificial Skeletal Muscle Tissue Constructs Fabricated by a Magnetic Force-Based Tissue Engineering Technique

(2010) Yasunori Yamamoto et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Assembly of skeletal muscle cells on a Si-MEMS device and their generative force measurement

(2009) Kazunori Shimizu et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Controlling the Orientation and Synaptic Differentiation of Myotubes with Micropatterned Substrates

(2009) Jacinthe Gingras et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Control of myotube contraction using electrical pulse stimulation for bio-actuator

(2009) Ken-ichi Yamasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

Preparation of artificial skeletal muscle tissues by a magnetic force-based tissue engineering technique

(2009) Yasunori Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Mesoscopic hydrogel molding to control the 3D geometry of bioartificial muscle tissues

(2009) Weining Bian et al.   Nature Protocols

T.P.4.04 Automated drug screening with contractile muscle tissue engineered from dystrophic myoblasts

(2009) H. Vandenburgh et al.   NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

Muscle Differentiation and Myotubes Alignment Is Influenced by Micropatterned Surfaces and Exogenous Electrical Stimulation

(2009) Marina Flaibani et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

A Novel Bioreactor for Stimulating Skeletal Muscle In Vitro

(2009) Kenneth Donnelly et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS

Aligned Cell Sheets Grown on Thermo-Responsive Substrates with Microcontact Printed Protein Patterns

(2008) Corin Williams et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineered skeletal muscle tissue networks with controllable architecture

(2008) Weining Bian et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Fabrication of skeletal muscle constructs by topographic activation of cell alignment

(2008) Yi Zhao et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Drug-screening platform based on the contractility of tissue-engineered muscle

(2008) Herman Vandenburgh et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE