Embedded 3D Bioprinting of Esophageal Muscle-Layer Analogs for Tissue Engineering

To begin, take the cultured esophageal smooth muscle cells once they attain 80%co fluency. Aspirate the medium and wash the endothelial smooth muscle cells with five milliliters of PBS. Then add two milliliters of 0.2%Trypsin-EDTA to the flask and incubate for two minutes to digest the cells.

Add two milliliters of DMEM to terminate the digestion process and transfer the cell suspension to a 15 milliliter centrifuge tube. Centrifuge the tube at 675G for three minutes. Carefully aspirate the supernatant, and resuspend the cell pellet in the composite gelatin methacrylate and silk fibroin methacryloyl bioinks.

After bioprinting and washing the 3D esophageal muscle layer with PBS, carefully aspirate the PBS and replace it with three milliliters of DMEM, supplemented with 10%FBS, and 1%penicillin or streptomycin.