中国组织工程研究 ›› 2026, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (29): 7539-7547.doi: 10.12307/2026.379

• 血管组织构建 vascular tissue construction • 上一篇    下一篇

大体积工程组织营养供给可定制的血管网仿生设计方法

贺潮淼1,2,关宇珩3,郑雄飞1,王赫然1   

  1. 1中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所机器人学国家重点实验室,辽宁省沈阳市   110016;2中国科学院大学,北京市   100049;3哈尔滨工业大学,黑龙江省哈尔滨市   150006
  • 收稿日期:2025-07-04 修回日期:2025-10-10 出版日期:2026-10-18 发布日期:2026-03-03
  • 通讯作者: 王赫然,博士,副研究员,中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所机器人学国家重点实验室,辽宁省沈阳市 110016
  • 作者简介:贺潮淼,男,1999年生,湖南省永兴县人,汉族,中国科学院大学在读硕士,主要从事器官制造与仪器开发的研究。
  • 基金资助:
    中科院青年科学家基础研究项目(YSBR-041)

A customizable vascular network biomimetic design for nutrient supply in large-scale engineering tissues

He Chaomiao1, 2, Guan Yuheng3, Zheng Xiongfei1, Wang Heran1   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning Province, China; 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, Heilongjiang Province, China 
  • Received:2025-07-04 Revised:2025-10-10 Online:2026-10-18 Published:2026-03-03
  • Contact: Wang Heran, PhD, Associate researcher, State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning Province, China
  • About author:He Chaomiao, MS candidate, State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning Province, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Supported by:
    Young Scientist Basic Research Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. YSBR-041

摘要:



文题释义:
营养供给可定制:大体积工程组织内部,需要血管网输运血液或营养物质,以维持细胞正常的生长代谢活动,算法根据代谢活性距离在每次生成后仿真计算营养供给情况,迭代生成血管使血管网结构达到指定的营养供给率,实现为工程组织模型定制具有营养供给功能的血管网。
血管网发育仿生:算法架构上,以一个体素代表血管单元或组织单元,并用体素模拟血管细胞和组织细胞的聚集、迁移、连通、成管、生长等发育行为;算法实现上,通过边生成边仿真模拟血管网的发育过程,例如设定营养供给率为96%,每完成一次血管网生成将计算一次营养供给率,若未达到设定值,则算法将会在已有血管网的骨架上对营养供给不足区域进行血管生成,模拟缺氧区域的血管网。

背景:构建有效的血管网对于大体积组织和器官的成功再生至关重要。目前血管网数字模型设计方法多依赖于固定的几何规则,难以满足不同材料和形状的工程组织的代谢需求,现有的分级式血管网因其分级规则导致扩散覆盖不足、营养供给率低。
目的:提出一种基于发育仿生原理的血管网体素模型设计方法,能够根据目标组织的代谢活性距离自动生成定制化的体素血管网结构。
方法:通过体素化技术模拟血管内皮细胞的迁移、聚集等生物学行为,对凝胶材料进行扩散实验,并基于菲克定律进行数据拟合,构建代谢-扩散耦合快速计算模型,基于该模型实现以代谢活性距离快速判别营养供给情况和划分低营养区域,从而模拟血管发育的动态重塑过程,以迭代地优化体素血管网模型的结构,直到营养供给率达到算法设定值。
结果与结论:与传统分级式设计方法相比,发育仿生式血管网设计在基于甲基丙烯酰化明胶(GelMA)水凝胶的长方体组织模型的代谢扩散仿真中,营养供给充足体积和单位体积营养贡献方面提高了25.53%,并成功为肾形和肺泡形等复杂形状的工程组织器官自动生成营养供给充足的血管网体素模型,验证了血管网发育仿生设计的优势与研究潜力。研究为在大体积工程组织和解剖学复杂器官中设计血管网数字模型提供了一种新的技术途径。
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6111-3785 (贺潮淼);https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3321-4438 (王赫然)


中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:干细胞;骨髓干细胞;造血干细胞;脂肪干细胞;肿瘤干细胞;胚胎干细胞;脐带脐血干细胞;干细胞诱导;干细胞分化;组织工程

关键词: 仿生血管网结构, 工程器官设计, 体素化设计, 生成式算法, 血管网设计, 组织修复, 器官制造, 生物3D打印

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Constructing an effective vascular network is crucial for the successful regeneration of large-volume tissues and organs. Currently, vascular network design methods predominantly rely on predefined geometric patterns, making them inadequate to meet the metabolic demands of engineered tissues with diverse material properties and complex morphologies. Existing hierarchical vascular networks suffer from insufficient diffusion coverage and low nutrient supply rates due to their hierarchical rules.
OBJECTIVE: To propose a vascular network model design method based on developmental biomimetic principles, aiming to automatically generate customized voxel vascular network structures tailored to the metabolically active distance of target tissues.
METHODS: The method integrated voxelization techniques to simulate biological behaviors of vascular endothelial cells, such as migration and aggregation. Diffusion experiments were conducted on gel materials, and Fick’s law was applied to fit experimental data, establishing a rapid computational metabolism-diffusion model. Leveraging this model, the metabolically active distance was utilized to rapidly evaluate nutrient supply status and delineate low-nutrient regions. This process enabled a dynamic optimization mimicking vascular development to iteratively refine the vascular network until the predefined algorithm-set nutrient supply rate threshold was achieved.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Compared with traditional hierarchical design methods, the proposed developmental biomimetic vascular network design demonstrated a 25.53% improvement in both nutrient-sufficient volume and nutrient contribution per unit volume within GelMA hydrogel-based cuboidal tissue constructs. This approach successfully generated nutrient-sufficient vascular network voxel models for complex-shaped engineered tissues and organs (e.g., renal-shaped and alveolar-shaped), validating its advantages in balancing structural adaptability with metabolic efficiency. The study provides a novel technical pathway for designing vascular networks in large-volume engineered tissues and anatomically complex organs.


Key words: biomimetic vascular network structure, engineered organ design, voxel-based design, generative algorithms, vascular network design, tissue repair, organ manufacturing, 3D bioprinting

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