Printing methods | Materials | Cells | Animal model | Features | Refs. |
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Inkjet printing | Fib/BMP-2 | hMPCs | – | Controlling cells fate of primary muscle derived stem cells toward osteogenic or myogenic cells by BMP-2 patterning | [118] |
3D ITOP | Fib/gelatin/ HA/glycerol | hMPCs | Rat VML TA | Fabricating biomimetic implantable human skeletal muscle construct (mm3-cm3 size) made up of hundreds of long parallel myofiber bundles | [120] |
 | Fib/gelatin/ HA/glycerol | hMPCs/hNSCs | Rat VML TA | Forming neuro-muscular junction and facilitating rapid innervations in rodent model | [121] |
 | Fib/NF loaded microsphere | hMPCs | – | Accelerating peripheral nerve regeneration and innervation by release NF delivery | [122] |
Extrusion | Au nanowires/collagen | C2C12 | Rat VML temporalis muscle | Increasing C2C12 differentiation by aligned in Au nanowires | [130] |
Collagen | hADSC/HUVEC | Rat VML temporalis muscle | Achieving in-situ direct bioprinting by combining bioprinting with bioreactor enabling | [145] | |
dECM | – | Canine VML biceps femoris | Acellular 3D bioprinted dECM patches for implantation of bulk patient-specific scaffold (12 × 8 × 2 cm) based on computed tomography imaging | [127] | |
Collagen | hMSCs | Rat VML TA | Fabricating collagen microfiber with 1,000 times higher tensile strengths than a normal collagen gel | [124] | |
SLA | Oxidized methacrylic alginate/PEGMA | Primary neurons/C2C12 | – | Demonstrating spatial control of neurons and myoblasts for enhancing functionality of neurons | [125] |
DLP | Poly (glycerol sebacate) acrylate | C2C12 | Rat VML TA | Tuning of mechanical and geometrical cues through 3D printing process | [126] |
Embedded printing | GelMA | hiPSC-MPCs/HUVEC | Mouse VML quadriceps | Forming endothelialized perfusable channels with increasing iPSC-MPC’s viability and functionality | [123] |