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Publication Accès libre Recent advances in the development of tissue-engineered vascular media made by self-assembly(Elsevier, 2013-06-05) Guillemette, Maxime.; Laterreur, Véronique; Germain, Lucie; Ruel, Jean; Miville Godin, Caroline; Bourget, Jean-Michel; Mounier, Maxence; Veres, Teodor; Auger, François A.; Gauvin, RobertThere is a lack of an optimal transplant material for small calibre blood vessels. This could be overcome by tissue engineering. The optimal construct is to be derived from autologous cells and present mechanical resistance comparable to the gold standard, autologous vessels such as the internal mammary artery or the saphenous vein. Our laboratory has developed the self-assembly approach to produce tissue sheets that can be rolled into such vessel substitutes. Over the years, many improvements have been made to the technique to facilitate smooth muscle cell culture and to produce vascular media substitutes with higher circumferential mechanical resistance.Publication Restreint Microstructured human fibroblast-derived extracellular matrix scaffold for vascular media fabrication(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016-04-28) Guillemette, Maxime.; Tondreau, Maxime; Laterreur, Véronique; Germain, Lucie; Miville-Godin, Caroline; Ruel, Jean; Mounier, Maxence; Tremblay, Catherine; Labbé, Raymond; Bourget, Jean-Michel; Veres, Teodor; Auger, François A.; Gauvin, RobertIn the clinical and pharmacological fields, there is a need for the production of tissue-engineered small-diameter blood vessels. We have demonstrated previously that the extracellular matrix (ECM) produced by fibroblasts can be used as a scaffold to support three-dimensional (3D) growth of another cell type. Thus, a resistant tissue-engineered vascular media can be produced when such scaffolds are used to culture smooth muscle cells (SMCs). The present study was designed to develop an anisotropic fibroblastic ECM sheet that could replicate the physiological architecture of blood vessels after being assembled into a small diameter vascular conduit. Anisotropic ECM scaffolds were produced using human dermal fibroblasts, grown on a microfabricated substrate with a specific topography, which led to cell alignment and unidirectional ECM assembly. Following their devitalization, the scaffolds were seeded with SMCs. These cells elongated and migrated in a single direction, following a specific angle relative to the direction of the aligned fibroblastic ECM. Their resultant ECM stained for collagen I and III and elastin, and the cells expressed SMC differentiation markers. Seven days after SMCs seeding, the sheets were rolled around a mandrel to form a tissue-engineered vascular media. The resulting anisotropic ECM and cell alignment induced an increase in the mechanical strength and vascular reactivity in the circumferential direction as compared to unaligned constructs.