A new holistic 3D non-invasive analysis of cellular distribution and motility on fibroin-alginate microcarriers using light sheet fluorescent microscopy

• Serena Duchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Duchi, Filippo Piccinini

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Osteoarticolar Regeneration Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy, Department of Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

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• Filippo Piccinini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Serena Duchi, Filippo Piccinini

  Roles Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) S.r.l., IRCCS, Meldola (FC), Italy

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• Michela Pierini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Osteoarticolar Regeneration Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Alessandro Bevilacqua,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems “Ercole De Castro” (ARCES), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Maria Luisa Torre,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Cell Delivery System Lab, Department of Drug Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Enrico Lucarelli,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Osteoarticolar Regeneration Laboratory, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

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• Spartaco Santi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spartaco.santi@cnr.it

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Genetics (CNR), Bologna, Italy, SC Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Cell Biology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9856-7053

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