Natural biomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering: a highly biocompatible solution

QA Majid, ATR Fricker, DA Gregory… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) constitute a major fraction of the current major global
diseases and lead to about 30% of the deaths, ie, 17.9 million deaths per year. CVD include …

3D cardiac cell culture: a critical review of current technologies and applications

C Zup**er - Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture is often mentioned in the context of regenerative
medicine, for example, for the replacement of ischemic myocardium with tissue-engineered …

Generation of functional human 3D cortico-motor assembloids

J Andersen, O Revah, Y Miura, N Thom, ND Amin… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neurons in the cerebral cortex connect through descending pathways to hindbrain and
spinal cord to activate muscle and generate movement. Although components of this …

Human-iPSC-derived cardiac stromal cells enhance maturation in 3D cardiac microtissues and reveal non-cardiomyocyte contributions to heart disease

E Giacomelli, V Meraviglia, G Campostrini, A Cochrane… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cardiomyocytes (CMs) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are functionally
immature, but this is improved by incorporation into engineered tissues or forced contraction …

3D bioprinting of high cell-density heterogeneous tissue models through spheroid fusion within self-healing hydrogels

AC Daly, MD Davidson, JA Burdick - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular models are needed to study human development and disease in vitro, and to
screen drugs for toxicity and efficacy. Current approaches are limited in the engineering of …

Human engineered heart tissue patches remuscularize the injured heart in a dose-dependent manner

E Querdel, M Reinsch, L Castro, D Köse, A Bähr… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Human engineered heart tissue (EHT) transplantation represents a potential
regenerative strategy for patients with heart failure and has been successful in preclinical …

Imaging cellular forces with photonic crystals

Q Li, Z Chen, Y Zhang, S Ding, H Ding, L Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Current techniques for visualizing and quantifying cellular forces have limitations in live cell
imaging, throughput, and multi-scale analysis, which impede progress in cell force research …

Establishment of a heart-on-a-chip microdevice based on human iPS cells for the evaluation of human heart tissue function

M Abulaiti, Y Yalikun, K Murata, A Sato, MM Sami… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Human iPS cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) hold promise for drug discovery for
heart diseases and cardiac toxicity tests. To utilize human iPSC-derived CMs, the …

3D co-culture of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes with cardiac fibroblasts improves tissue-like features of cardiac spheroids

P Beauchamp, CB Jackson, LC Ozhathil… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Both cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts (CF) play essential roles in cardiac
development, function, and remodeling. Properties of 3D co-cultures are incompletely …

Uncoupling DNA damage from chromatin damage to detoxify doxorubicin

X Qiao, SY van der Zanden… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The anthracycline doxorubicin (Doxo) and its analogs daunorubicin (Daun), epirubicin (Epi),
and idarubicin (Ida) have been cornerstones of anticancer therapy for nearly five decades …