Challenges and opportunities for the next generation of cardiovascular tissue engineering

S Cho, DE Discher, KW Leong, G Vunjak-Novakovic… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Engineered cardiac tissues derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells offer unique
opportunities for patient-specific disease modeling, drug discovery and cardiac repair. Since …

Microfluidic organoids-on-a-chip: The future of human models

G Saorin, I Caligiuri, F Rizzolio - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidics opened the possibility to model the physiological environment by controlling
fluids flows, and therefore nutrients supply. It allows to integrate external stimuli such as …

Connecting past and present: single-cell lineage tracing

C Chen, Y Liao, G Peng - Protein & Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Central to the core principle of cell theory, depicting cells' history, state and fate is a
fundamental goal in modern biology. By leveraging clonal analysis and single-cell RNA-seq …

[PDF][PDF] 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] Human Stem Cells for Cardiac Disease Modeling and Preclinical and Clinical Applications—Are We on the Road to Success?

CD Correia, A Ferreira, MT Fernandes, BM Silva… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are pointed out by the World Health Organization (WHO)
as the leading cause of death, contributing to a significant and growing global health and …

Accelerating cardiovascular research: recent advances in translational 2D and 3D heart models

E Mohr, T Thum, C Bär - European Journal of Heart Failure, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In vitro modelling the complex (patho‐) physiological conditions of the heart is a major
challenge in cardiovascular research. In recent years, methods based on three‐dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Cardiac organoid: Multiple construction approaches and potential applications

Z Yang, Y Zhang, J Wang, J Yin, Z Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The human cardiac organoid (hCO) is three-dimensional tissue model that is similar to an in
vivo organ and has great potential on heart development biology, disease modeling, drug …

Emergence of heart and branchiomeric muscles in cardiopharyngeal mesoderm

F Lescroart, CE Dumas, N Adachi, RG Kelly - Experimental Cell Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Branchiomeric muscles of the head and neck originate in a population of cranial mesoderm
termed cardiopharyngeal mesoderm that also contains progenitor cells contributing to …

[PDF][PDF] A review of protocols for engineering human cardiac organoids

F Wu, Q He, F Li, X Yang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The use of human cardiac organoids (hCOs) as 3D in vitro models for cardiovascular
research has shown great promise. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) have proven to …