Assessing drug-induced mitochondrial toxicity in cardiomyocytes: implications for preclinical cardiac safety evaluation

X Tang, Z Wang, S Hu, B Zhou - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drug-induced cardiotoxicity not only leads to the attrition of drugs during development, but
also contributes to the high morbidity and mortality rates of cardiovascular diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocyte modelling of cardiovascular diseases for natural compound discovery

K Zhu, X Bao, Y Wang, T Lu, L Zhang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Natural
compounds extracted from medicinal plants characterized by diverse biological activities …

Genetically engineered HEK cells as a valuable tool for studying electroporation in excitable cells

T Batista Napotnik, B Kos, T Jarm, D Miklavčič… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Electric pulses used in electroporation-based treatments have been shown to affect the
excitability of muscle and neuronal cells. However, understanding the interplay between …

Functional isolation, culture and cryopreservation of adult human primary cardiomyocytes

B Zhou, X Shi, X Tang, Q Zhao, L Wang, F Yao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death globally. Accurately
modeling cardiac homeostasis, dysfunction, and drug response lies at the heart of cardiac …

Insights into therapeutic products, preclinical research models, and clinical trials in cardiac regenerative and reparative medicine: where are we now and the way …

L Grigorian-Shamagian, R Sanz-Ruiz… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Great expectations have been set around the clinical potential of regenerative and
reparative medicine in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases [ie in particular, heart failure …

Multiomics uncover the proinflammatory role of Trpm4 deletion after myocardial infarction in mice

M Boukenna, JS Rougier… - American Journal …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Upon myocardial infarction (MI), ischemia-induced cell death triggers an inflammatory
response responsible for removing necrotic material and inducing tissue repair. TRPM4 is a …

Enhancing iPSC‐CM Maturation Using a Matrigel‐Coated Micropatterned PDMS Substrate

EN Jimenez‐Vazquez, A Jain, DK Jones - Current protocols, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac myocytes isolated from adult heart tissue have a rod‐like shape with highly
organized intracellular structures. Cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem …

Human induced pluripotent stem cell as a disease modeling and drug development platform—a cardiac perspective

MM Bekhite, PC Schulze - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
A comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology and cellular responses to drugs in
human heart disease is limited by species differences between humans and experimental …

Comparing the signaling and transcriptome profiling landscapes of human iPSC-derived and primary rat neonatal cardiomyocytes

K Bourque, J Jones-Tabah, D Pétrin, RD Martin… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The inaccessibility of human cardiomyocytes significantly hindered years of cardiovascular
research efforts. To overcome these limitations, non-human cell sources were used as …

Experimental heart failure models in small animals

M Gunata, H Parlakpinar - Heart Failure Reviews, 2023 - Springer
Heart failure (HF) is one of the most critical health and economic burdens worldwide, and its
prevalence is continuously increasing. HF is a disease that occurs due to a pathological …