Challenges and opportunities for the next generation of cardiovascular tissue engineering

S Cho, DE Discher, KW Leong, G Vunjak-Novakovic… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Engineered cardiac tissues derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells offer unique
opportunities for patient-specific disease modeling, drug discovery and cardiac repair. Since …

Excessive Trabeculation of the Left Ventricle: JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging Expert Panel Paper

SE Petersen, B Jensen, N Aung, MG Friedrich… - Cardiovascular …, 2023‏ - jacc.org
Excessive trabeculation, often referred to as “noncompacted” myocardium, has been
described at all ages, from the fetus to the adult. Current evidence for myocardial …

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis identifies murine heart molecular features at embryonic and neonatal stages

W Feng, A Bais, H He, C Rios, S Jiang, J Xu… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Heart development is a continuous process involving significant remodeling during
embryogenesis and neonatal stages. To date, several groups have used single-cell …

Organ-specific endothelial cell differentiation and impact of microenvironmental cues on endothelial heterogeneity

L Gifre-Renom, M Daems, A Luttun… - International journal of …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Endothelial cells throughout the body are heterogeneous, and this is tightly linked to the
specific functions of organs and tissues. Heterogeneity is already determined from …

Proliferation and maturation: janus and the art of cardiac tissue engineering

BN Singh, D Yucel, BI Garay, EG Tolkacheva… - Circulation …, 2023‏ - ahajournals.org
During cardiac development and morphogenesis, cardiac progenitor cells differentiate into
cardiomyocytes that expand in number and size to generate the fully formed heart. Much is …

Placental inflammation leads to abnormal embryonic heart development

EJ Ward, S Bert, S Fanti, KM Malone, RT Maughan… - Circulation, 2023‏ - ahajournals.org
Background: Placental heart development and embryonic heart development occur in
parallel, and these organs have been proposed to exert reciprocal regulation during …

Single-cell RNA sequencing to identify cellular heterogeneity and targets in cardiovascular diseases: from bench to bedside

X Xu, X Hua, H Mo, S Hu, J Song - Basic research in cardiology, 2023‏ - Springer
The mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain incompletely elucidated. Single-
cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has enabled the profiling of single-cell transcriptomes at …

The insulin-like growth factor signalling pathway in cardiac development and regeneration

S Díaz Del Moral, M Benaouicha… - International journal of …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Insulin and Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) perform key roles during embryonic
development, regulating processes of cell proliferation and survival. The IGF signalling …

Single-cell technologies to decipher cardiovascular diseases

WT Abplanalp, N Tucker, S Dimmeler - European Heart Journal, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. A deeper
understanding of the multicellular composition and molecular processes may help to identify …

Why is endothelial resilience key to maintain cardiac health?

LS Tombor, S Dimmeler - Basic research in cardiology, 2022‏ - Springer
Myocardial injury as induced by myocardial infarction results in tissue ischemia, which
critically incepts cardiomyocyte death. Endothelial cells play a crucial role in restoring …