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Review

Cell Bioprinting: The 3D-Bioplotter™ Case

by
David Angelats Lobo
1,2,* and
Paola Ginestra
1
1
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, V. Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
2
New Therapeutic Targets Laboratory (TargetsLab)-Oncology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Girona, Emili Grahit 77, 17003 Girona, Spain
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Materials 2019, 12(23), 4005; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma12234005
Submission received: 18 October 2019 / Revised: 20 November 2019 / Accepted: 28 November 2019 / Published: 2 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing towards the Design of 3D Advanced Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering)
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Abstract

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The classic cell culture involves the use of support in two dimensions, such as a well plate or a Petri dish, that allows the culture of different types of cells. However, this technique does not mimic the natural microenvironment where the cells are exposed to. To solve that, three-dimensional bioprinting techniques were implemented, which involves the use of biopolymers and/or synthetic materials and cells. Because of a lack of information between data sources, the objective of this review paper is, to sum up, all the available information on the topic of bioprinting and to help researchers with the problematics with 3D bioprinters, such as the 3D-Bioplotter™. The 3D-Bioplotter™ has been used in the pre-clinical field since 2000 and could allow the printing of more than one material at the same time, and therefore to increase the complexity of the 3D structure manufactured. It is also very precise with maximum flexibility and a user-friendly and stable software that allows the optimization of the bioprinting process on the technological point of view. Different applications have resulted from the research on this field, mainly focused on regenerative medicine, but the lack of information and/or the possible misunderstandings between papers makes the reproducibility of the tests difficult. Nowadays, the 3D Bioprinting is evolving into another technology called 4D Bioprinting, which promises to be the next step in the bioprinting field and might promote great applications in the future.

1. Introduction

Three-dimensional (3D) printing, also called Rapid Prototyping (RP), was originally developed by Charles Hull in 1986 as a technique called stereolithography (SLA) [1,2]. For being the first 3D technology ever conceived, its precision and resolution were and are still high [3].
The first technology was stereolithography, which consists of the solidification of a photosensitive material by an ultraviolet light source [4]. Later, other 3D printing techniques were conceived such as fused deposition modelling (FDM) [5], inkjet printing, direct laser patterning, cell-sheet technology, cell-laden technology, extrusion-based printing [6], valve-based technology, acoustic printing [7], selective laser melting [8], selective laser sintering [9], and laminated object manufacturing [10]. Some of these technologies can be seen in Figure 1. All of them can also be classified into four different categories, like extrusion printing, material sintering, material binding, and lamination [11].
Those technologies were first applied in the 3D printing field, but, 17 years ago, a new field was introduced called 3D Bioprinting, and the first application was the development of vascular tissue networks to maintain the cells within culture [13]. In addition, another application was the production of synthetic biocompatible supports for cells, also called scaffolds, to mimic the natural cellular microenvironment [14]. Several conditions must be accomplished before bioprinting, such as the acquisition of a 3D image, a computer-aided design (CAD) software [15], and the ability to control the deposition of the materials used [16].
Different approaches can be used to bioprint, either with or without cells at the initial step [12]. In particular, 80% of printers are optimized for an extrusion-based printing [17]. The material extrusion, especially of thermoplastic materials, is the most common and inexpensive technique because it can use a wide range of materials like polylactic acid (PLA), polycaprolactone (PCL), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and biodegradable calcium phosphate glass, which are then combined with cells such as human monocytes, for example to study the inflammation process [18]. On the other hand, the bioprinting technique can use cells directly so the design of a proper structure for the accommodation of cells in the synthesized scaffolds is more complicated but offers some advantages such as the possibility to optimize the cell deposition and distribution, and the printing speed [11]. Thus, the main difference between a typical material extrusion and a bioprinting technique is that the first one does not use cells directly, so it requires a post-seeding process that might not be required for bioprinting techniques.
As previously mentioned, the bioprinting process can be performed using two different approaches, called pre-seeding and post-seeding [19]. The pre-seeding bioprinting is a type of 3D bioprinting that involves the printing of both materials and cells at the same time. Although it requires more time to properly optimize the geometry of the scaffold manufactured, it also provides high applicability and efficiency. On the other hand, the post-seeding process, which could be used after an extrusion-based printing, consists of first printing the material and then co-culturing it with the proper cells. In this review paper, those techniques are related to the step in which the extrusion material and the cells are combined, as it could be at the same time for direct bioprinting, or after the printing of the material (i.e., mold or sacrificial structure) for indirect bioprinting. Compared to the direct bioprinting, the indirect one has lower efficiency. To sum up, direct bioprinting is more time-consuming than indirect bioprinting, but it also has higher efficiency on cell deposition and might also be a way to increase cell viability within the scaffold designed by not exposing cells under more stress.
In that context, several combinations of materials and cells, also called bio-inks, can be used to perform direct bioprinting by combining materials such as microcarriers, decellularized extracellular matrixes (dECM), and hydrogels with cells from tissue spheroids, cell pellets, and tissue strands [20].
Specifically, hydrogels have some interesting properties because they are in a solid/aqueous state. They are easily controllable by changing temperature and humidity [21], biodegradable, biocompatible, with tailorable mechanical strength, and readily available [17]. Their limits are related to the dissolution kinetics in body fluids and the difficult sterilization process. Of course, other materials can be used to avoid these limitations such as metals and metal alloys, ceramics and carbon compounds, and composites [11].
The most important bioprinting limitations are connected with the need of a vascular network to maintain cell viability within the bioprinted tissue or organ [7], the presence of bottlenecks between biology and engineering to bioprint complex compositions [22,23], the complexity of native tissues [24], the viscosity of the material [25,26,27], and, finally, the bio-inks available on the market. An ideal bio-ink must be strongly biocompatible, with appropriate rheological parameters [15,28], architectural integrity, and assure an equilibrium between cell viability and functionality after bioprinting [29].
In this review, we will focus on applications of 3D bio-printers available on the market, mainly the 3D-Bioplotter™ systems, for both direct and indirect bioprinting. We will be focused on 3D-Bioplotter™ systems because of their precision, flexibility, and user-friendly employment. These printers also offer the possibility of a process optimization in relation to the effects of the parameters and their interdependence with a stable platform that leads to a higher replicability of the results compared to other bioprinters available on the market. Moreover, we will refer to the state of the art on bioprinting, what has been done, and what will be needed for future studies.

2. Materials for Bioprinting

2.1. Polymers

2.1.1. Natural Polymers

Natural polymers, also called biopolymers, have different properties and advantages, related to their chemical-physical compositions that can be adjusted to the target tissue and cell types [30,31,32]. If the scaffolds are properly planned, cells can have enough space for cell proliferation and migration [33]. Rheological parameters also need to be considered because they have high relevancy for the biofabrication process. Some of those parameters are the viscosity, shear-thinning, yield stress, and porosity, among others [34]. The use of biopolymers allows a better mimicry of the natural microenvironment of cells but have reproducibility problems of experiments because of their batch-to-batch variability.
Nowadays, bioprinting uses many natural and semi-synthetic polymers, such as collagen and fibrinogen [35,36], gelatin methacrylamide (GelMA) [34,37], alginate [38,39], Matrigel™ and Cultrex® [40], and basement membranes (ECM containing proteins like fibronectin, laminin, and collagen type IV) [41,42]. Other strategies can include the acquisition of ECM by inducing it to a chondrocyte culture and then separating it from the cells by a devitalized technique [43].

2.1.2. Synthetic Polymers

Internal variations on natural polymer synthesis make the comparison between experiments difficult. Synthetic polymers solve that problem because they have an exact structure and composition between samples.
Some of the materials that are used might be polycaprolactone (PCL), polyethylene glycol and derivatives (PEG), polylactic acid (PLA), poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) [44,45], and peptide scaffolds of BD™ Pura Matrix™ [41,46].

2.2. Cross-Linking Methods

Different cross-linking methods can be employed to retain certain geometries of the materials used for bioprinting, such as chemical, light, physical, and hybrid techniques. As seen in Figure 2, each material used is classified according to the type of cross-linking method used. As for the chemical cross-linking, the majority of the articles use alginate as the main material (80%) followed by alginate: gelatin (15%) and PEG-polymers (5%). In relation to the light techniques, the majority of the articles report the use of methacrylated-gelatin (55.6%), followed by methacrylated hyaluronic acid (33.3%), and hydroxyapatite (11.1%) as main materials of the hydrogels. Concerning the hybrid techniques, for the combination of more than one technique, the majority of the authors use methacrylated-gelatin (75%) or alginate (25%). Respecting the physical techniques, by the use of temperature, for example, the majority of the articles report as main material lignin combined with HPU (50%) or decellularized ECM (50%). Finally, a small part of the articles does not specify the cross-linking method used, and the main materials used for their hydrogels are alginate (40%), alginate: gelatin (40%) or methacrylated-gelatin (20%). Some examples of each category could be, for the chemical methods, the use of calcium ion solution, for light techniques, the exposure to a UV light source, physical cross-linking by temperature and hybrid techniques, by using more than one technique at the same time.

2.3. Cellular Typologies

In this section, the most important cell types that are being used with different types of 3D bioprinters, and with the 3D-Bioplotter™ will be described. All of the available information will be distributed in subsections according to the type of cells used.

2.3.1. Vascular Tissues

Vascularization is very important for the bioprinting, especially for large tissue constructs, because cells need a constant supply of nutrients and oxygen [12]. According to analyzed literature, one of the strategies is the use of the HUVEC cell line to develop vascular networks for cell viability maintenance, as seen in Table 1.
It seems that the presence of a PEG-derived polymer within the hydrogel is needed for the establishment of a proper vascular network for cell viability preservation. Because there is a lack of information on the cell line used with a modified thermal inkjet printer, we cannot confirm that the use of a sacrificial material like carbohydrate glass filament networks could be a better alternative than using PEG-derived polymers for microvascular network synthesis.

2.3.2. Cartilage and Bone-Like Structures

Many cartilage and bone applications can be reflected in Table 2, by 3D-Bioplotter™ and other 3D bioprinting machines. For cartilage tissue engineering, the majority of the cells used are related to primary chondrocytes followed by one example of human chondrocytes [51]. For bone tissue engineering, there are only two examples in the table, by using bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) combined with different hydrogels and endothelial stromal cells derived from the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue (SVFCs) used for the prevascularization process of bone constructs. The majority of articles are focused on regenerative medicine applications such as improvement on bioprinted cartilage [52], orthopedics [53,54,55], bone tissue bioprinting [56], prevascularization on bone tissue constructs [57] and cartilage tissue engineering [58,59]. One of the indirect contributions to the regenerative medicine field would be the study of a reversible cross-linking strategy [60]. In Table 2, there is only one example of human chondrocytes with a PEGDA hydrogel [51], which could be an isolated case because the articles that use primary chondrocytes are combined with alginate-based and/or gelatin methacryloyl hydrogels. There is also a lack of information on three articles about the cell lines used, which could help to determine if there is a relationship between the cell lines used and the compounds of their hydrogels.

2.3.3. Cardiac Tissues

The principal applications for cardiac tissue engineering are reported in Table 3, mainly focused on 3D-Bioplotter™ and with only one example of another brand of 3D bioprinter. The applications are focused on the generation of tissue spheroids [61], regenerative medicine for the generation of cardiac patches [62], cardiac implants, and nano-reinforced cardiac patches’ [63].
For 3D-Bioplotter™, human cardiac progenitor cells (hCPCs) and human coronary artery endothelial tissues became used for regenerative medicine applications, combined with alginate-based hydrogel or gelatin methacrylate hydrogel, then supplemented with support materials such as cardiac extracellular matrix, PEI, calcium chloride, methacrylated collagen, and carboxyl functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs).

2.3.4. Liver Tissues

For liver tissue applications, exposed in Table 4, there are only two examples of each type of 3D bioprinter. In the case of Organovo 3D-bioprinter, there is no information about the cell lines and materials used [64], which make the comparison of the two types of bioprinters difficult. The only described example is the use of 3D-Bioplotter™ for the bioprinting of liver tissue using a decellularized extracellular matrix of the liver and a sacrificial material called Pluronic F-127, combined with immortalized mouse small cholangiocytes and a cancer cell line called HUH7 [65].

2.3.5. Stem Cells

In the subject of stem cell applications, the majority of the papers use an alginate-based hydrogel with only three examples of methacrylated gelatin hydrogels combined [66,67,68,69,70], as reflected in Table 5.
There is also a clear relationship between cell lines and hydrogel compositions, in some cases. This can be observed with iPS and neural stem cells that use an alginate hydrogel supplemented with carboxymethyl-chitosan and agarose, with human mesenchymal stem cells for containing methacrylated gelatin as one component of their respective hydrogels [69,70]. The majority of applications are related to regenerative medicine such as the production of neural mini-tissues [60] but also related to model development for drug testing and the study of diseases such as breast cancer [67] and preeclampsia [69]. Only two examples are related to the development of techniques such as dielectric impedance spectroscopy technique [68] and mesoscopic fluorescence tomography [70].

2.3.6. Cancer Cells

Principal cancer cell applications are represented in Table 6. Alginate is the main component of the hydrogels, followed by methacrylated gelatin and a complex hydrogel formulation [67].
The applications are related to regenerative and other medical studies but only is associated with cancer study, which in that case is drug testing using an HER-2 positive breast cancer cell line called 21PT, combined with a complex hydrogel based on methacrylated gelatin supplemented with other compounds [67]. One interesting study would be the one associated with the biofabrication of constructs with high cell viability because the authors performed a photo-crosslinking technique with a UV light source that apparently does not affect the cell viability of the scaffold [74].

2.3.7. Adipose Tissues

In the matter of adipose tissue applications, only two examples are found in Table 7 that use methacrylated gelatin-based hydrogels. Only one example is related to regenerative medicine on adipose tissue engineering, with supplementation of PEG-4A in the hydrogel [50]. The other application is related to the metabolic study for the differences between white and brown adipose tissues [57].

2.3.8. Muscle Cells

For muscle cells, there is only one application that uses L8 myoblasts and Schwann cells, combined with an alginate-based hydrogel for a study of cell damages of bioprinting processes [78], seen in Table 8.

2.3.9. Schwann Cells

Concerning Schwann cell applications, the main component of the hydrogels employed is alginate, supplemented with different support materials depending on the cell line and resulted applications. Some applications the development of better peptide-modified alginate scaffolds [79], the repair of peripheral nerve injury [80], production of scaffolds with high integrity and cell viability [81], and the explanation of cell damage and proliferative ability on bioprinting processes [78]. Further information can be found in Table 9.

2.3.10. Skin Tissues

Relative to skin tissue applications (Table 10) almost all hydrogels use methacrylated gelatin followed by PEG formulations and a novel hydrogel formulation. One interesting article is the proposed alternative hydrogel formulation based on lignin, which is suggested as a new concept for skin tissue bioprinting. The majority of the papers correspond to regenerative medicine, except for one on the use of mesoscopic fluorescence tomography, previously mentioned [70]. Except for the novel formulation [82], it seems that the common cross-linking method used is the chemical one, exempting the use of a photoinitiator and tyrosinase on bioprinting of living skin tissue constructs [83].

2.4. General Summary

The main and support materials used for bioprinting can be seen in Figure 3 and Figure 4, obtained from a revision of the literature of 40 articles on bioprinting tests with the 3D-Bioplotter™.
As seen in Figure 3, the most common material used for scaffold manufacturing is alginate. Alginate is a good candidate because it is cheap, easy to print, to handle and extrude while protecting encapsulated cells within it [84]. It has limits such as the absence of cell-adhesion properties [85], but they can be avoided by adding gelatin [86], hyaluronic acid [75], or methacrylated collagen [63] as support materials.
As for the scaffold geometry, there is not a clear default geometry because it depends on the type of bio-inks used and the authors and the final applications in each case. As previously said, alginate is an interesting material to be used for bioprinting, not only because it is cheap but also because of its high biocompatibility and the ability to absorb water, and therefore the ability to control cell viability within the hydrogel [87,88].
One of the main issues in 3D bioprinting is to maintain the cell viability because many factors such as shear stress during printing and cell encapsulation could reduce the cell growth from 40% to 2% and that cell damage may also be caused by the different cross-linking processes performed after bioprinting [89]. Materials by themselves, like alginate, have some limitations that might influence the cell viability during bioprinting, so the combination with support materials could be helpful to reduce these problems [90]. For example, the combination of alginate and biosilica resulted in being more promising not only for the bone tissue culture formation than alginate or biosilica alone, but also for the cell viability due to the improved extrusion process [72]. Other authors proposed the use of cylindrical cell aggregates, composed of mouse bone marrow cells (BMSC), Schwann cells (SC) and agarose, to not only make it easy to handle the bio-ink but also not affecting the generation of the proper post-printing structure because of a reduction on the cell damage [91]. When the main application is regenerative medicine and transplants, an autograft of adult stem cells, especially adipose-derived stem cells, can be used safely to avoid the rejection process during transplantation [92].
Other improvements can be made for mechanical properties such as mechanical strength, elasticity, and stiffness. Some of the strategies can be, for example, the cross-linking methods by exposure to ultraviolet light, heat, and/or an ionic solution.

3. Manufacturing Parameters

3.1. Temperature of the Head and Plate

This relationship is the most uncertain, firstly because the process temperatures are mostly related to the bioprinted materials and due to the lack of information on the temperature of the head and plate of the 3D-Bioplotter™, among the different papers consulted.
Most of the articles only contain one of those two parameters (57.5%) and only a small portion of the research (5%) includes all the available information to understand the possible correlation between them. The majority of the papers report a temperature of the head and the plate around 22 °C while printing alginate or methacrylated gelatin-based hydrogels in the presence of cells. A high portion of papers gives no indications on those parameters, which have a strong relationship with the cell survival rate in the synthesized constructs. While the temperature of the head is more related to the cells’ viability and the material properties, the temperature of the plate could be a crucial parameter because the plate is involved in processes like physical cross-linking and the maintenance of cell viability post-printing. The temperature information could be beneficial especially when newly developed materials are used.

3.2. Pressure

Pressure is an important parameter to be considered, not only because every polymer has its specific properties such as viscosity among others, but also because, when the printing is performed with cells, they need to be maintained all of the time in the optimal conditions because a stress situation provoked, for example, by higher pressures might be capable of altering the viability of the cells, and reducing it, which can be a problem for the experiments that are being performed. In Table 11, we can see some examples of different cell lines from bone and cartilage tissues, stem cells, cancer cells, adipose tissues, Schwann cells related to the nervous system and fibroblasts, in this order.

4. Applications of Bioprinting

The applications of bioprinting can be classified by their field, such as regenerative medicine, material science, drug testing, and other (i.e., cellular characterization). As illustrated in Figure 5, the main application in 3D bioprinting is regenerative medicine (37.5%). Some examples could be those related to the production of implants for cardiac failure, audition-loss [62,69], cartilage tissue engineering [58,93], and human neural tissue construction [7]. According to the analyzed literature, drug tests are mainly related to the design of cellular models for clinical research. Apropos of material science and other advanced applications, some examples are those related to cell-compatible hydrogel synthesis [27], improvements on cell viability maintenance during bioprinting processes [68], and the development of new materials such as a combination between lignin and polyurethane [82]. Other examples related to the medical field, classified as other applications, are cellular characterization [94], chemical material characterization [95], development of new techniques [70,76], and gene characterization [77].

5. Discussion

As previously mentioned, different materials and systems can be used for 3D bioprinting, and especially for regenerative medicine. Focusing on 3D-Bioplotter™ systems, the main material used for scaffold manufacturing is alginate, but combined with other polymers in order to improve its mechanic and biologic properties. One of the possible improvements is the use of polyethyleneimine (PEI) as a chemical cross-linking, in order to improve the mechanical stability of the 3D constructs [80,81].
Furthermore, 37.5% of the analyzed articles do not have clear temperature information and that is very crucial for the maintenance of cell viability because variations of those parameters can increase cell viability and, therefore, affect the validation of experiments in the 3D bioprinting field.
Furthermore, a new field derived from 3D bioprinting was introduced recently, called 4D bioprinting. The main difference between 3D and 4D bioprinting is that this latest technology uses smart materials that can re-shape in the response to external stimuli such as light, temperature, and humidity [96]. This new technology uses the same 3D printers but with different materials, so it is an improvement in the material science side. All the smart materials must fulfill the same properties as the biomaterials used in 3D bioprinting, such as biocompatibility, non-inflammatory response, dynamic and supporting physiological functions [97], non-toxicity, and with appropriate rheological properties if needed [98].
Thus, even though 3D bioprinting was established 17 years ago, there are still some limitations on the manufacturing processes as well as on the availability of bio-inks on the market, to mimic more exactly the natural cell microenvironment. Further studies might be developed to improve the fabrication of tissue-engineered scaffolds [83]. In the future, it will be necessary for the development of high-resolution multi-material bioprinters and accurate stimulation methods to be used not only in a regenerative medicine field but also in research in general, in order to find new biomarkers on more diseases or disorders, and help treat them more effectively.

Author Contributions

D.A.L. and P.G. equally contributed to the paper. D.A.L. wrote the paper and P.G. revised the style.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Examples of the available techniques in the 3D printing field [12].
Figure 1. Examples of the available techniques in the 3D printing field [12].
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Figure 2. Description of the cross-linking techniques and their materials used for the 3D-Bioplotter™ bioprinter. The information is represented as percentages (%) and the different materials used are represented by colors.
Figure 2. Description of the cross-linking techniques and their materials used for the 3D-Bioplotter™ bioprinter. The information is represented as percentages (%) and the different materials used are represented by colors.
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Figure 3. Main materials used for scaffolds bioprinting. The information is represented as percentages (%).
Figure 3. Main materials used for scaffolds bioprinting. The information is represented as percentages (%).
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Figure 4. Support materials used for scaffolds. The information is represented as percentages (%).
Figure 4. Support materials used for scaffolds. The information is represented as percentages (%).
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Figure 5. Classification of applications for the 3D-Bioplotter™ printer. All of the available information is classified into five categories, and the results are expressed as percentages (%).
Figure 5. Classification of applications for the 3D-Bioplotter™ printer. All of the available information is classified into five categories, and the results are expressed as percentages (%).
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Table 1. Principal vascular tissue applications.
Table 1. Principal vascular tissue applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationReference
Modified thermal inkjet printer from HP® and Canon®Not specifiedSacrificial material (carbohydrate glass filament networks)Microvascular networks[47,48]
3D-Bioplotter™HUVEC 1Gelatin ink completed with PEG-SVACell-compatible hydrogels[49]
3D-Bioplotter™HUVEC and HWA 2Methacrylated gelatin, methacrylated hyaluronic acid, and PEG-4A 3Robust cryogel for adipose tissue engineering[50]
1 human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 2 human adipose progenitor cell line. 3 polyethylene glycol-valeric acid.
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Table 2. Principal cartilage and bone applications.
Table 2. Principal cartilage and bone applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
Modified HP® Deskjet 500 printerHuman chondrocytesPEGDA 1 hydrogelAmbiguous[51]
Multihead deposition system (MHDS) printer from AM technologyNot specifiedAlginate-based ink completed with PCL 2Strength improvement on bioprinted cartilage[52]
3D printerNot specifiedPCL/hydroxyapatite hydrogelOrthopaedic applications[32,34,53,54]
Biological laser (BioLP) printer designed in the laboratory Not specifiedAlginate/hydroxyapatite hydrogelOrthopedic applications[55]
3D-Bioplotter™BMSCs 3Non-medical alginate hydrogel and calcium chloride/Lutrol F127/Matrigel/Agarose and methylcellulosePatterned constructs for bone tissue bioprinting[56]
3D-Bioplotter™SVFC 4PCL/hydroxyapatite hydrogelPrevascularization in 3D bioprinted bone constructs[57]
3D-Bioplotter™Primary chondrocytes, other cellsAlginate hydrogel, PCL and calcium chlorideCartilage tissue engineering[58]
3D-Bioplotter™Primary chondrocytesAlginate/hydroxyapatite hydrogelCartilage tissue engineering[59]
3D-Bioplotter™Primary chondrocytes, Mesenchymal stem cells, Cartilage derived progenitor cellsGelatin methacryloyl hydrogel, with a photoinitiatorReversible cross-linking strategy on cartilage tissue engineering[60]
1 poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate. 2 polycaprolactone. 3 bone marrow stromal cells. 4 endothelial stromal cells derived from the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue.
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Table 3. Principal cardiac tissue applications.
Table 3. Principal cardiac tissue applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
Printer designed by nScrypt Inc.Cardiac cells and HUVEC 1Not specifiedTissue spheroids[61]
3D-Bioplotter™hCPCs 2Gelatin methacrylate hydrogel and cardiac ECM 3Cardiac patches[62]
3D-Bioplotter™Human coronary artery endothelial tissuesAlginate hydrogel and calcium chloride/PEI 4Cardiac implants[63]
3D-Bioplotter™Human coronary artery endothelial cellsAlginate hydrogel and methacrylated collagen and CNTs 5Nano-reinforced cardiac patches[63]
1 human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 2 human cardiac progenitor cells. 3 extracellular matrix. 4 polyethyleneimine. 5 carboxyl functionalized carbon nanotubes.
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Table 4. Principal liver tissue applications.
Table 4. Principal liver tissue applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
Organovo 3D-bioprinterNot specifiedNot specified (with problems)Microliver tissues for in vitro drug testing[64]
3D-Bioplotter™Immortalized mouse small cholangiocytes and HUH7 1dECM 2 of the liver and sacrificial material (Pluronic F-127)3D-Bioprinting for liver tissues[65]
1 human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. 2 decellularized extracellular matrix.
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Table 5. Principal stem cell applications.
Table 5. Principal stem cell applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™iPSCs 1 and/or hNSCs 2Alginate-CMC 3 hydrogelTissue bioprinting[60]
3D-Bioplotter™iPSCsAlginate-CMC-agarose hydrogel and calcium chlorideIn situ cell proliferation and successive multilineage differentiation[66]
3D-Bioplotter™ASMCs 4Complex hydrogel (methacrylated hyaluronic acid, methacrylated gelatin, hyaluronic acid and gelatinBreast cancer model for drug resistance study[67]
3D-Bioplotter™Human mesenchymal stem cellsMethacrylated gelatin hydrogelPlacenta model for preeclampsia[69]
3D-Bioplotter™Frontal cortical human neural stem cellsAlginate-CMC-agarose hydrogel and calcium chlorideHuman neural tissues’ applications[60]
3D-Bioplotter™Frontal cortical human neural stem cellsAlginate-CMC-agarose hydrogel and calcium chlorideProduction of neural mini-tissues[60]
3D-Bioplotter™Human mesenchymal stem cells and L929 fibroblastsGelatin methacrylate hydrogel/alginate hydrogel and calcium chlorideMesoscopic fluorescence tomography for bone tissue engineering[70]
3D-Bioplotter™hASCs 5Alginate hydrogel and calcium chlorideMonitoring of 3D constructs via dielectric impedance spectroscopy technique[68]
3D-Bioplotter™Human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cellsSodium alginate-gelatin hydrogelOsteogenesis’ applications on in vivo studies[71]
1 induced-pluripotent stem cells. 2 human neural stem cells. 3 carboxymethyl-chitosan. 4 adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cells. 5 human adipose-derived stem cells.
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Table 6. Principal cancer cell applications.
Table 6. Principal cancer cell applications.
3D Printer UsedCell line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™21PT cell line 1Complex hydrogel (methacrylated hyaluronic acid, methacrylated gelatin, hyaluronic acid and gelatinBreast cancer model for drug resistance study[67]
3D-Bioplotter™SaOS-2 cell line 2Biocalcite hydrogel (alginate and biosilica)Synthesis of calcium phosphate-bone[72]
3D-Bioplotter™HUH7 3 and immortalized mouse small cholangiocytesdECM 4 of the liver and sacrificial material (Pluronic F-127)3D-Bioprinting for liver tissues[65]
3D-Bioplotter™SaOS-2 cell lineAlginate-gelatin-bioglass hydrogel, polyP/calcium chloride, and silica/biosilicaGrowth and biomineralization of SaOS-2 cells on bioglass[72]
3D-Bioplotter™SaOS-2 cell lineAlginate-gelatin-agarose hydrogel and calcium chlorideBioprinting of bioartificial tissue[73]
3D-Bioplotter™MG63 cell line 5 and hASCs 6Alginate hydrogel and calcium chlorideMonitoring of 3D constructs via dielectric impedance spectroscopy technique[68]
3D-Bioplotter™HepG2 7Methacrylated gelatin B-type photocurable with UV-lightConstructs with high cell viability[74]
3D-Bioplotter™ATDC5 8Alginate hydrogel and PCL 9Cartilage tissue engineering[58]
3D-Bioplotter™ATDC5Alginate-hyaluronic acid hydrogel and calcium chloride or PVA 10 or PEI 11Tissue reparation[75]
3D-Bioplotter™ATDC5Alginate hydrogel and PCL and calcium chlorideCartilage tissues’ applications[76]
3D-Bioplotter™JEG3 cell line 12 and trophoblast cellsMethacrylated gelatin hydrogel and EGF 13Testing on ZEB2, a master regulator of EMT 14[77]
1 HER2 -positive breast tumour cell line. 2 sarcoma osteogenic cell line. 3 hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. 4 decellularized extracellular matrix. 5 osteosarcoma cell line. 6 human adipose-derived stem cells. 7 hepatocarcinoma cell line. 8 mouse teratocarcinoma cell line. 9 polycaprolactone. 10 poly(vinyl alcohol). 11 polyethyleneimine. 12 choriocarcinoma cell line. 13 epidermal growth factor. 14 epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
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Table 7. Principal adipose tissue applications.
Table 7. Principal adipose tissue applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™WAP 1 and BAP 2Methacrylated hyaluronic acid-methacrylated gelatin and hyaluronic acid and gelatinChecking behaviour and metabolic function on human brown adipocyte[57]
3D-Bioplotter™HWA 3 and HUVEC 4Methacrylated gelatin, methacrylated hyaluronic acid, and PEG-4A 5Robust cryogel for adipose tissue engineering[50]
1 human white adipose progenitor cells. 2 human brown adipose progenitor cells. 3 human adipose progenitor cells. 4 human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 5 4arm poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate.
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Table 8. Muscle cell application, for 3D-Bioplotter™ technology.
Table 8. Muscle cell application, for 3D-Bioplotter™ technology.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™L8 myoblasts and Schwann cellsAlginate hydrogel and DMEM 1Characterization of cell damage and proliferative ability during and after bioprinting[78]
1 Dulbecco’s modified eagle medium.
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Table 9. Principal Schwann cell applications.
Table 9. Principal Schwann cell applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™Living Schwann cellsAlginate/RGD 1-alginate hydrogel, hyaluronic acid, fibrinogen, and calcium chloridePotential nerve tissue engineering applications[78]
3D-Bioplotter™Rat primary Schwann cellsAlginate hydrogel, RGD/YIGSR 2 peptides, and calcium chloride/PEI 3Peptide-modified alginate scaffolds[79]
3D-Bioplotter™RSC96 cell line 4Alginate hydrogel, hyaluronic acid, and calcium chlorideScaffolds with high integrity and cell viability[81]
3D-Bioplotter™RSC96 cell line and L8 myoblastsAlginate hydrogel and DMEM 5Characterization of cell damage and proliferative ability during and after bioprinting[78]
3D-Bioplotter™RSC96 cell lineAlginate hydrogel and calcium chloride/PEIRepair of peripheral nerve injury[80]
3D-Bioplotter™Rat Schwann cells and ATDC5 6Alginate-hyaluronic acid hydrogel and calcium chloride/PVA 7 or PEI 8Tissue reparation[75]
1 arginine-glycine-aspartate peptide. 2 tyrosine-isoleucine-glycine-serine-arginine peptide. 3 polyethyleneimine. 4 ATTC immortalized rat Schwann cell line. 5 Dulbecco’s modified eagle medium. 6 mouse teratocarcinoma cell line. 7 poly(vinyl alcohol). 8 polyethyleneimine.
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Table 10. Principal skin tissue applications.
Table 10. Principal skin tissue applications.
3D Printer UsedCell Line (s) UsedMaterials UsedApplicationsReference
3D-Bioplotter™HDF 1 and HUVEC 235 formulations of PEG 3-X polymersCell-compatible hydrogels[49]
3D-Bioplotter™L929 fibroblasts and Human mesenchymal stem cellsGelatin methacrylate hydrogel/alginate hydrogel and calcium chlorideMesoscopic fluorescence tomography for bone tissue engineering[70]
3D-Bioplotter™NIH/3T3 cell line 4Methacrylated gelatin hydrogel and EGF 5Regenerative medicine for tympanic membrane perforations[69]
3D-Bioplotter™Primary human dermal fibroblast cellsLignin—HPU 6 hydrogelA new concept for fibroblasts bioprinting[82]
3D-Bioplotter™HEM 7, HaCat 8, and HDFGelatin methacrylamide hydrogel, collagen, and photoinitiator (and tyrosinase)Bioprinting of living skin constructs[83]
1 human dermal fibroblasts. 2 human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 3 poly(ethylene glycol). 4 murine fibroblast cell line. 5 epidermal growth factor. 6 hydrophilic polyurethane. 7 human melanocytes. 8 human keratinocytes.
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Table 11. Some examples of different pressures applied to different cell types constructs, using a 3D-Bioplotter™ printer. All the pressures are expressed in kilopascals (kPa), to improve the comparison between articles.
Table 11. Some examples of different pressures applied to different cell types constructs, using a 3D-Bioplotter™ printer. All the pressures are expressed in kilopascals (kPa), to improve the comparison between articles.
Cell Line (s)Pressure (kPa)References
BMSCs 130–300[56]
Primary chondrocytes (cartilage tissue)10[59]
hCPCs 270–80[62]
Human iPSCs 35[66]
ASMCs 4300–350[67]
hNSCs 5150–200[60]
ATDC5 630[58]
SaOS-2 cell line 790[72,73]
21PT cell line 8300–350[67]
HWA 9 (+HUVEC 10)300–350[50]
Living Schwann cells30[78]
HDF 11 (+HUVEC)100–250[49]
Primary human dermal fibroblasts200[82]
1 bone marrow stromal cells. 2 human cardiac progenitor cells. 3 induced-pluripotent stem cells. 4 adipose-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cells. 5 human neural stem cells. 6 mouse teratocarcinoma cell line. 7 sarcoma osteogenic cell line. 8 HER2 -positive breast tumour cell line. 9 human adipose progenitor cell line. 10 human umbilical vein endothelial cells. 11 human dermal fibroblasts.

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