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. 2019 May 21;11(2):17. doi: 10.1038/s41368-019-0050-5

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Procedures for preparing cell sheet/beta tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) composite grafts. a Preparing three cell sheet/β-TCP grafts including OM/UM/β-TCP, OM/HUVEC-UM/β-TCP, and HUVEC-UM/OM/β-TCP. b Macroscopic view of an human mesenchymal stem cell sheet on a dish (I) and a porous β-TCP scaffold (II). The scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image demonstrates the morphology of β-TCP pores (III). Point forceps were used to wrap the cell sheet onto a β-TCP scaffold (IV), thus generating a HUVEC-UM/OM/β-TCP graft (V). The SEM images show a very dense extracellular matrix of cell sheets on a β-TCP scaffold (VI, VII). (Adapted from ref. 62 with permission. Further permissions related to the material excerpted should be directed to the ACS: https://pubs.acs.org.ccindex.cn/doi/10.1021/am502056q.)