title: Textile Technologies and Tissue Engineering: A Path Toward Organ Weaving.
abstract: Textile technologies have recently attracted great attention as potential biofabrication tools for engineering tissue constructs. Using current textile technologies, fibrous structures can be designed and engineered to attain the required properties that are demanded by different tissue engineering applications. Several key parameters such as physiochemical characteristics of fibers, microarchitecture, and mechanical properties of the fabrics play important roles in the effective use of textile technologies in tissue engineering. This review summarizes the current advances in the manufacturing of biofunctional fibers. Different textile methods such as knitting, weaving, and braiding are discussed and their current applications in tissue engineering are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.|Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akbari
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tamayol
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 20156, Italy.|David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bagherifard
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Serex
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Pooria
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mostafalu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Negar
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Faramarzi
authors.affiliation: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Mohammad Hossein
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.|Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21569, Saudi Arabia.|Department of Bioindustrial Technologies, College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khademhosseini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009928:Organ Specificity; D013784:Textiles; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials
keywords: biofabrication; biomaterials; fiber-based techniques; scaffolds; textile technologies; tissue engineering