A common technique for in vitro cartilage regeneration is to seed a porous matrix with cartilage cells and to culture the construct in static conditions or under medium perfusion in a bioreactor. An essential step toward the development of functional cartilage is to understand and control the tissue growth phenomenon in such systems. The growth process depends on various space- and time-varying biophysical variables of the environment surrounding the cartilage cells, primarily mass transport and mechanical variables, all involved in the cell biological response. Moreover, the growth process is inherently multiscale, since cell size (10 microns), scaffold pore size (100 microns), and cellular construct size (10 mm) pertain to three separate spatial scales. To obtain a quantitative understanding of cartilage growth in this complex multiphysics and multiscale system, advanced mathematical models and efficient scientific computing techniques have been developed. In this chapter, we discuss the existing knowledge in this field and we present the most recent advancements for the numerical simulation of cartilage tissue engineering.

Multiphysics Computational Modeling in Cartilage Tissue Engineering

RAIMONDI, MANUELA TERESA;LAGANA', MATTEO;ZUNINO, PAOLO;SACCO, RICCARDO
2013-01-01

Abstract

A common technique for in vitro cartilage regeneration is to seed a porous matrix with cartilage cells and to culture the construct in static conditions or under medium perfusion in a bioreactor. An essential step toward the development of functional cartilage is to understand and control the tissue growth phenomenon in such systems. The growth process depends on various space- and time-varying biophysical variables of the environment surrounding the cartilage cells, primarily mass transport and mechanical variables, all involved in the cell biological response. Moreover, the growth process is inherently multiscale, since cell size (10 microns), scaffold pore size (100 microns), and cellular construct size (10 mm) pertain to three separate spatial scales. To obtain a quantitative understanding of cartilage growth in this complex multiphysics and multiscale system, advanced mathematical models and efficient scientific computing techniques have been developed. In this chapter, we discuss the existing knowledge in this field and we present the most recent advancements for the numerical simulation of cartilage tissue engineering.
2013
Volume 10: Computational Modeling in Tissue Enginering
978-3-642-32562-5
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