Generación de tejidos artificiales funcionalizados para aplicaciones de ingeniería tisular craneofacial y dental

  1. España Guerrero, Enrique
Supervised by:
  1. Ingrid Garzón Bello Co-director
  2. Antonio España López Co-director

Defence university: Universidad de Granada

Fecha de defensa: 02 December 2022

Committee:
  1. Fidel Hita Contreras Chair
  2. Fernando Campos Sánchez Secretary
  3. María del Carmen González Gallardo Committee member

Type: Thesis

Abstract

Recent advances in tissue engineering offer innovative clinical alternatives in dentistry and regenerative medicine. Tissue engineering combines human cells with compatible biomaterials to induce tissue regeneration. Shortening the fabrication time of biomaterials used in tissue engineering will contribute to treatment improvement, and biomaterial functionalization can be exploited to enhance scaffold properties. In this work, we have tested an alternative biofabrication method by directly including human oral mucosa tissue explants within the biomaterial for the generation of human bioengineered mouth and dental tissues for use in tissue engineering. To achieve this, acellular fibrin–agarose scaffolds (AFAS), non-functionalized fibrin-agarose oral mucosa stroma substitutes (n-FAOM), and novel functionalized fibrin-agarose oral mucosa stroma substitutes (F-FAOM) were developed and analyzed after 1, 2, and 3 weeks of in vitro development to determine extracellular matrix components as compared to native oral mucosa controls by using histochemistry and immunohistochemistry. Results demonstrate that functionalization speeds up the biofabrication method and contributes to improve the biomimetic characteristics of the scaffold in terms of extracellular matrix components and reduce the time required for in vitro tissue development.