3D-bioprinting of Ion Conducting Gelatin Hydrogels for Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering Ghent University
In the context of skeletal muscle tissue engineering, conductive hydrogel materials have proven successful in promoting the myogenesis process but come with the drawbacks of non-biodegradability, water insolubility, poor mechanical properties and debated in vivo cytotoxicity. A resort to ionic conductivity will be made instead which relies on ion transport, like all biological processes, by developing an ion conducting gelatin hydrogel which ...