[HTML][HTML] Histo-anatomical structure of the living isolated rat heart in two contraction states assessed by diffusion tensor MRI

PW Hales, JE Schneider, RAB Burton, BJ Wright… - Progress in biophysics …, 2012 - Elsevier
Deformation and wall-thickening of ventricular myocardium are essential for cardiac pump
function. However, insight into the histo-anatomical basis for cardiac tissue re-arrangement …

Recent progress in light sheet microscopy for biological applications

K Chatterjee, FW Pratiwi, FCM Wu, P Chen… - Applied …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The introduction of light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) has overcome the
challenges in conventional optical microscopy. Among the recent breakthroughs in …

Robust anisotropic cellulose hydrogels fabricated via strong self-aggregation forces for cardiomyocytes unidirectional growth

D Ye, P Yang, X Lei, D Zhang, L Li, C Chang… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of a facile and fast method to construct anisotropic hydrogels with the
ability to induce unidirectional growth of cells remains challenging. In this work, we …

The cardiolipin-binding peptide elamipretide mitigates fragmentation of cristae networks following cardiac ischemia reperfusion in rats

ME Allen, ER Pennington, JB Perry, S Dadoo… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to cardiac pathologies. Barriers to new therapies
include an incomplete understanding of underlying molecular culprits and a lack of effective …

Stretch harmonizes sarcomere strain across the cardiomyocyte

J Li, J Sundnes, Y Hou, M Laasmaa, M Ruud… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Increasing cardiomyocyte contraction during myocardial stretch serves as
the basis for the Frank-Starling mechanism in the heart. However, it remains unclear how …

Cardiac thin filament regulation and the Frank–Starling mechanism

F Kobirumaki-Shimozawa, T Inoue, SA Shintani… - The journal of …, 2014 - Springer
The heart has an intrinsic ability to increase systolic force in response to a rise in ventricular
filling (the Frank–Starling law of the heart). It is widely accepted that the length dependence …

Silicon nanowire-induced maturation of cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Y Tan, D Richards, R Xu, S Stewart-Clark, SK Mani… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The current inability to derive mature cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells has
been the limiting step for transitioning this powerful technology into clinical therapies. To …

Integrated analysis of contractile kinetics, force generation, and electrical activity in single human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

JD Kijlstra, D Hu, N Mittal, E Kausel, P van der Meer… - Stem cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
The quantitative analysis of cardiomyocyte function is essential for stem cell-based
approaches for the in vitro study of human cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. We …

SarcTrack: an adaptable software tool for efficient large-scale analysis of sarcomere function in hiPSC-cardiomyocytes

CN Toepfer, A Sharma, M Cicconet… - Circulation …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) in
combination with CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing provide unparalleled opportunities to study …

Elastic serum-albumin based hydrogels: mechanism of formation and application in cardiac tissue engineering

N Amdursky, MM Mazo, MR Thomas… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are promising materials for mimicking the extra-cellular environment. Here, we
present a simple methodology for the formation of a free-standing viscoelastic hydrogel from …