Opportunities and challenges in cardiac tissue engineering from an analysis of two decades of advances

RZ Zhuang, R Lock, B Liu… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Engineered human cardiac tissues facilitate progress in regenerative medicine, disease
modelling and drug development. In this Perspective, we reflect on the most notable …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondria and metabolic transitions in cardiomyocytes: lessons from development for stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

JC Garbern, RT Lee - Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2021 - Springer
Current methods to differentiate cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs)
inadequately recapitulate complete development and result in PSC-derived cardiomyocytes …

Metabolically driven maturation of human-induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived cardiac microtissues on microfluidic chips

N Huebsch, B Charrez, G Neiman, B Siemons… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The immature physiology of cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem
cells (hiPSCs) limits their utility for drug screening and disease modelling. Here we show …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-chamber cardioids unravel human heart development and cardiac defects

C Schmidt, A Deyett, T Ilmer, S Haendeler… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The number one cause of human fetal death are defects in heart development. Because the
human embryonic heart is inaccessible and the impacts of mutations, drugs, and …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling human multi-lineage heart field development with pluripotent stem cells

D Yang, J Gomez-Garcia, S Funakoshi, T Tran… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The cardiomyocyte (CM) subtypes in the mammalian heart derive from distinct lineages
known as the first heart field (FHF), the anterior second heart field (aSHF), and the posterior …

[HTML][HTML] PPARdelta activation induces metabolic and contractile maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

NM Wickramasinghe, D Sachs, B Shewale… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes (PSC-CMs) provide an unprecedented
opportunity to study human heart development and disease, but they are functionally and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of protocols for human iPSC culture, cardiac differentiation, subtype-specification, maturation, and direct reprogramming

DM Lyra-Leite, Ó Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, M Wang, Y Zhou… - STAR protocols, 2022 - Elsevier
The methods for the culture and cardiomyocyte differentiation of human embryonic stem
cells, and later human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC), have moved from a complex …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Heart regeneration: 20 years of progress and renewed optimism

JC Garbern, RT Lee - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide, and thus there remains great
interest in regenerative approaches to treat heart failure. In the past 20 years, the field of …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial dynamics, and mitophagy in the maturation of cardiomyocytes

Q Ding, Y Qi, SY Tsang - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can undergo unlimited self-renewal and can differentiate into
all the cell types present in our body, including cardiomyocytes. Therefore, PSCs can be an …