Advanced Tissue Culture Technologies - Seminar

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Topic

The course material is designed to provide theoretical background to currently employed three dimensional tissue culture techniques including scaffold-based (biodegradable) and scaffold-free (tissue printing, pelleting and hanging-drop) systems. The course will detail the importance of the tissue microenvironment in normal and artificial tissue development. Directed cellular growth, organ formation for surgical implantation and drug target identification in human tissue systems and in vitro testing of pharmaceutical compounds in complex tissue systems are also part of the curriculum. The course will discuss the latest advances in technology and medicine for replacing tissues and organs damaged by disease and of developing therapies for previously untreatable conditions.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Basic principles of tissue engineering (TE). Characteristics of 2D and 3D cell cultures - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 2. Cells and tissue types in tissue engineering: isolation, culturing and directed differentiation of different stem cells I. - Bánfai Krisztina
• 3. Cells and tissue types in tissue engineering: isolation, culturing and directed differentiation of different stem cells II. - Bánfai Krisztina
• 4. Characteristics and use of bioreactors - Bánfai Krisztina
• 5. Scaffolds and biomaterials in TE I. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 6. Scaffolds and biomaterials in TE II. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 7. Scaffold-free technologies used for the generation of aggregate cultures. I. - Bánfai Krisztina
• 8. Scaffold-free technologies used for the generation of aggregate cultures. II. - Bánfai Krisztina
• 9. Advanced tissue models using transwell inserts: methodology of Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) and Blood-Brain-Barrier (BBB) models. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 10. Hepatocyte models for drug induced liver injury I. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 11. Hepatocyte models for drug induced liver injury II. - Bánfai Krisztina
• 12. Tissue printing technologies I. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 13. Tissue printing technologies II. - Bóvári-Biri Judit
• 14. Test - Bóvári-Biri Judit

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Pongracz & Keen: Medical Biotechnology, Elsevier, 2009

Joseph D. Bronzino: Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs

Ali Khademhosseini (ed.): Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Microenvironment, Technologies and Applications (Engineering in Medicine & Biology)

Challa S. S. R. Kumar (ed.): Tissue, Cell and Organ Engineering (Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences)

W. Mark Saltzman: Tissue Engineering: Engineering Principles for the Design of Replacement Organs and Tissues

Robert Lanza, Robert Langer, Joseph Vacanti: Principles of Tissue Engineering, 3rd edition

Will W. Minuth, Raimund Strehl, Karl Schumacher: Tissue Engineering: From Cell Biology to Artificial Organs

Fen Ontaigne: Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering, Forgacs & Newman, 2005.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Completion of seminars and practices

Mid-term exams

Every seminar will contain a fast, 10 min test.

Making up for missed classes

None

Exam topics/questions

The list of test questions correlates with the lecture and seminar titles.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Bóvári-Biri Judit
• Steinerbrunnerné Nagy Alexandra