Ex Vivo Gene Delivery to Porcine Cardiac Allografts Using a Myocardial-Enhanced Adeno-Associated Viral Vector

M Mendiola Pla, Y Chiang, A Roki, C Wang… - Human Gene …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Transplantation, the gold standard intervention for organ failure, is a clinical field that is ripe
for applications of gene therapy. One of the major challenges in applying gene therapy to …

Isolated Perfused Hearts for Cardiovascular Research: An Old Dog with New Tricks

T Yang, Z Liu, S Shu, Z Chen, X Hua, J Song - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
In modern cardiovascular research, isolated perfused hearts have become cost-effective
and highly reproducible tools to investigate the mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases …

Current Approaches to Optimize Donor Heart for Transplantation

AH Alam, CY Lee, MK Kanwar, Y Moayedi… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heart transplantation remains a critical therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure,
offering incremental survival and improved quality of life. One of the key components behind …

Delivery of Therapeutics to Solid Organs Using Ex Vivo Machine Perfusion

M Mendiola Pla, DE Bowles - Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Safety and …, 2024 - Springer
The use of ex vivo machine perfusion for organ preservation has significantly improved solid
organ transplantation outcomes. This modality of organ preservation has increased the …

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging characterization of acute rejection in a porcine heterotopic heart transplantation model

M Mendiola Pla, CA Milano, C Glass, DE Bowles… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Preclinical disease models are important for the advancement of therapeutics towards
human clinical trials. One of the difficult tasks of develo** a well-characterized model is …