Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering (Sep 2016)

New bioreactor vessel for tissue engineering of human nasal septal chondrocytes

  • Princz Sascha,
  • Wenzel Ulla,
  • Schwarz Silke,
  • Rotter Nicole,
  • Hessling Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2016-0071
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 319 – 322

Abstract

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Cultivation of human nasal septal chondrocytes in a self-established automated bioreactor system with a new designed reactor glass vessel and the results of a computational fluid dynamics model are presented. The first results show the effect of a homogeneous fluidic condition of the continuous medium flow and the resulting stresses on the scaffolds’ surface and their influence on the migration of the cells into the scaffold matrix under these conditions. For this purpose computational models, generated with the computational fluid dynamics software STAR-CCM+, and the results of alcian blue staining for newly synthesized sulphated glycosaminoglycans have been compared during cultivation in the new and a first version of the glass reactor vessel with inhomogeneous fluidic conditions, with the same automated bioreactor system and under similar cultivation conditions.

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