Single-cell RNA sequencing in cardiovascular development, disease and medicine

DT Paik, S Cho, L Tian, HY Chang… - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies in the past 10 years
have had a transformative effect on biomedical research, enabling the profiling and analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial-targeted therapy for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity

BB Wu, KT Leung, ENY Poon - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin, are effective chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment
of cancer, but their clinical use is associated with severe and potentially life-threatening …

[PDF][PDF] Progress in multicellular human cardiac organoids for clinical applications

H Kim, RD Kamm, G Vunjak-Novakovic, JC Wu - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Advances in self-organizing cardiac organoids to recapitulate human cardiogenesis have
provided a powerful tool for unveiling human cardiac development, studying cardiovascular …

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 infects human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, impairing electrical and mechanical function

S Marchiano, TY Hsiang, A Khanna, T Higashi… - Stem cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
COVID-19 patients often develop severe cardiovascular complications, but it remains
unclear if these are caused directly by viral infection or are secondary to a systemic …

Cellular and engineered organoids for cardiovascular models

D Thomas, S Choi, C Alamana, KK Parker… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
An ensemble of in vitro cardiac tissue models has been developed over the past several
decades to aid our understanding of complex cardiovascular disorders using a reductionist …

Highlights on advancing frontiers in tissue engineering

N Ashammakhi, A GhavamiNejad, R Tutar… - … Engineering Part B …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The field of tissue engineering continues to advance, sometimes in exponential leaps
forward, but also sometimes at a rate that does not fulfill the promise that the field imagined a …

SGLT2 inhibitor ameliorates endothelial dysfunction associated with the common ALDH2 alcohol flushing variant

H Guo, X Yu, Y Liu, DT Paik, JM Justesen… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
The common aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) alcohol flushing variant known as
ALDH2* 2 affects∼ 8% of the world's population. Even in heterozygous carriers, this …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing disease Modeling: the emergence of organoids in cellular systems

R Silva-Pedrosa, AJ Salgado, PE Ferreira - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cellular models have created opportunities to explore the characteristics of human diseases
through well-established protocols, while avoiding the ethical restrictions associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the promising potential of induced pluripotent stem cells in cancer research and therapy

M Chehelgerdi, F Behdarvand Dehkordi… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
The advent of iPSCs has brought about a significant transformation in stem cell research,
opening up promising avenues for advancing cancer treatment. The formation of cancer is a …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling cardiac disease mechanisms using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes: progress, promises and challenges

EI Parrotta, V Lucchino, L Scaramuzzino… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a class of disorders affecting the heart or blood
vessels. Despite progress in clinical research and therapy, CVDs still represent the leading …