[HTML][HTML] Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

Cardiac fibrosis: Myofibroblast-mediated pathological regulation and drug delivery strategies

M Liu, BL de Juan Abad, K Cheng - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Cardiac fibrosis remains an unresolved problem in heart diseases. After initial injury, cardiac
fibroblasts (CFs) are activated and subsequently differentiate into myofibroblasts (myoFbs) …

[HTML][HTML] Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutic agents by hydrogel injection into the pericardial cavity for cardiac repair

D Zhu, Z Li, K Huang, TG Caranasos, JS Rossi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cardiac patches are an effective way to deliver therapeutics to the heart. However, such
procedures are normally invasive and difficult to perform. Here, we develop and test a …

[HTML][HTML] Biomaterials to enhance stem cell transplantation

BN Kharbikar, P Mohindra, TA Desai - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The successful transplantation of stem cells has the potential to transform regenerative
medicine approaches and open promising avenues to repair, replace, and regenerate …

A Phase II study of autologous mesenchymal stromal cells and c‐kit positive cardiac cells, alone or in combination, in patients with ischaemic heart failure: the CCTRN …

R Bolli, RD Mitrani, JM Hare, CJ Pepine… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims CONCERT‐HF is an NHLBI‐sponsored, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, Phase II
trial designed to determine whether treatment with autologous bone marrow‐derived …

Heart regeneration by endogenous stem cells and cardiomyocyte proliferation: controversy, fallacy, and progress

L He, NB Nguyen, R Ardehali, B Zhou - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Myocardial infarction
results in an irreversible loss of cardiomyocytes with subsequent adverse remodeling and …

Exosomes secreted by hiPSC-derived cardiac cells improve recovery from myocardial infarction in swine

L Gao, L Wang, Y Wei, P Krishnamurthy… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Cell therapy treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) is mediated, in part, by exosomes
secreted from transplanted cells. Thus, we compared the efficacy of treatment with a mixture …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the potential of hydrogels for advanced therapeutic applications: Current achievements and future directions

P Lu, D Ruan, M Huang, M Tian, K Zhu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

Endothelial extracellular vesicles contain protective proteins and rescue ischemia-reperfusion injury in a human heart-on-chip

M Yadid, JU Lind, HAM Ardoña, SP Sheehy… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from various stem cell sources induce cardioprotective
effects during ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). These have been attributed mainly to the …

Basic and Translational Research in Cardiac Repair and Regeneration: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

J Zhang, R Bolli, DJ Garry, E Marbán… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
This paper aims to provide an important update on the recent preclinical and clinical trials
using cell therapy strategies and engineered heart tissues for the treatment of postinfarction …