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My research is centered around developing cell-printing methods to produce two-and three-dimensional structures for tissue-engineering applications

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My research is centered around developing cell-printing methods to produce two-and three-dimensional structures for tissue-engineering applications

Present	Director Biomedical Engineering program, University of Texas at El Paso
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Biomaterials and Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering

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500 W. University Ave.
M210E
El Paso, TX 79968-0520

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Electrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons cultured in a 3D ...

Biomaterials (2009)

Tao Xu, Peter Molnar, Gregory Cassie, Mainak Das, et al.

Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as 'entrapped' evenly distributed cells, (2) at the interface ...

Fabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues

Biofabrication (2009)

Tao Xu, Catalin Baicu, Michael Aho, Michael Zile, et al.

We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping method. With the use of ...

Human microvasculature fabrication using thermal inkjet printing technology

Biomaterials (2009)

Xiaofeng Cui and Thomas Boland

The current tissue engineering paradigm is that successfully engineered thick tissues must include vasculature. As biological approaches alone, such as ...

Loading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable, elastic ...

J Control Release (2008)

Changhong Zhang, Kejia Zhao, TJ Hu, Xiaofeng Cui, et al.

A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol, and a bicine chain extender. ...

Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable elastomeric polyurethane scaffolds fabricated by ...

Biomaterials (2008)

Changhong Zhang, Xuejun Wen, Narendra R Vyavahare and Thomas Boland

Biodegradable polyurethanes (PUs) were synthesized from methylene di-p-phenyl-diisocyanate (MDI), polycaprolactone diol (PCL-diol) and N,N-bis (2-hydorxyethyl)-2-aminoethane-sulfonic acid (BES), serving as a ...

Viability and Electrophysiology of Neural Cell Structures generated by the ...

Biomaterials (2006)

Tao Xu, Cassie Gregory, Peter Molnar, S Jalota, et al.

Complex cellular patterns and structures were created by automated and direct inkjet printing of primary embryonic hippocampal and cortical neurons. ...

Advances in Tissue Engineering: Cell Printing

J. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2005)

David Varghese, Malay Deshpande, Priya Kesari, S Ohri, et al.

Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells

Biomaterials (2005)

Tao Xu, Joyce Jin, Cassie Gregory, Jay J Hickman, et al.

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a commercial thermal printer to deposit Chinese Hamster Ovary ...

Construction of High- Density Bacterial Colony Arrays and Patterns by ...

Biotechnol. Bioeng. (2004)

Tao Xu, Sevastioni Petridou, Eric H Lee, Elisabeth A Roth, et al.

We have developed a method for fabricating bacterial colony arrays and complex patterns using commercially available ink-jet printers. Bacterial colony ...

Inkjet Printing for High Throughput Cell Patterning

Biomaterials (2004)

Elisabeth A Roth, Tao Xu, Mainak Das, Cassie Gregory, et al.

The adaptation of inkjet printing technology to the complex fields of tissue engineering and biomaterial development presents the potential to ...

Tissue-Engineering Constructs, Using Photopolymerizable Hydrogels and Stereolithography.”

Tissue Engineering (2004)

Busaina Dhariwala, Elaine Hunt and Thomas Boland

One of the most important aspects of tissue engineering is the design of the scaffold providing the mechanical strength and ...

A Quantitative Approach to Studying Structures and Orientation at Self- ...

J. Coll. Interf. Sci. (2003)

Laura Pardo and Thomas Boland

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have become a standard tool for exploring surface interactions. Although well characterized, SAMs are known to undergo ...

Cell And Organ Printing 2: Fusion of Cell Aggregates In ...

Anat. Rec. A Discov. Mol. Cell. Evol. Biol. (2003)

Thomas Boland, Vladimir Mironov, Anna Gutowska, Elisabeth A Roth, et al.

We recently developed a cell printer (Wilson and Boland, 2003) that enables us to place cells in positions that mimic ...

Cell and Organ Printing 1: Protein and Cell Printers

Anat. Rec. A Discov. Mol. Cell. Evol. Biol. (2003)

Cris Wilson and Thomas Boland

We have developed several devices for positioning organic molecules, molecular aggregates, cells, and single-cell organisms onto solid supports. These printers ...

Characterization of Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers and Protein Arrays Generated by ...

Langmuir (2003)

Laura F Pardo and Thomas Boland

Commercial ink-jet printers were used with little modification to deposit alkanethiols onto gold substrata and several proteins onto silica supports. ...

Application of Inkjet Printing to Tissue Engineering

Biotechnology J (2006)

Thomas Boland, Tao Xu, Brook Damon and Xiaofeng Cui

ecent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement are described. Organ printing refers ...

Organ printing: computer aided jet based 3D tissue engineering

Trends Biotechnol (2003)

Vladimir Mironov, Thomas Boland, Thomas Trusk, Gabor Forgacs, et al.

Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big ...