Ice templating soft matter: fundamental principles and fabrication approaches to tailor pore structure and morphology and their biomedical applications

H Joukhdar, A Seifert, T Jüngst, J Groll… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Porous scaffolds are widely used in biomedical applications where pore size and
morphology influence a range of biological processes, including mass transfer of solutes …

[HTML][HTML] 3D bioprinting in cardiac tissue engineering

Z Wang, L Wang, T Li, S Liu, B Guo, W Huang, Y Wu - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heart disease is the main cause of death worldwide. Because death of the myocardium is
irreversible, it remains a significant clinical challenge to rescue myocardial deficiency …

A perfusable, multifunctional epicardial device improves cardiac function and tissue repair

S Huang, D Lei, Q Yang, Y Yang, C Jiang, H Shi… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite advances in technologies for cardiac repair after myocardial infarction (MI), new
integrated therapeutic approaches still need to be developed. In this study, we designed a …

[HTML][HTML] Next generation of heart regenerative therapies: progress and promise of cardiac tissue engineering

MF Tenreiro, AF Louro, PM Alves… - NPJ Regenerative …, 2021 - nature.com
The adult heart is a vital and highly specialized organ of the human body, with limited
capability of self-repair and regeneration in case of injury or disease. Engineering …

Emerging functional biomaterials as medical patches

Y Wang, G Chen, H Zhang, C Zhao, L Sun, Y Zhao - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Medical patches have been widely explored and applied in various medical fields,
especially in wound healing, tissue engineering, and other biomedical areas. Benefiting …

Application of textile technology in tissue engineering: A review

C Jiang, K Wang, Y Liu, C Zhang, B Wang - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the key elements in tissue engineering is to design and fabricate scaffolds with tissue-
like properties. Among various scaffold fabrication methods, textile technology has shown its …

3D Electrospun Nanofiber‐Based Scaffolds: From Preparations and Properties to Tissue Regeneration Applications

S Han, K Nie, J Li, Q Sun, X Wang, X Li… - Stem cells …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospun nanofibers have been frequently used for tissue engineering due to their
morphological similarities with the extracellular matrix (ECM) and tunable chemical and …

Reconstructing the heart using iPSCs: Engineering strategies and applications

S Cho, C Lee, MA Skylar-Scott, SC Heilshorn… - Journal of Molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have emerged as a key component of cardiac tissue
engineering, enabling studies of cardiovascular disease mechanisms, drug responses, and …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering human cardiac muscle patch constructs for prevention of post-infarction LV remodeling

L Wang, V Serpooshan, J Zhang - Frontiers in cardiovascular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tissue engineering combines principles of engineering and biology to generate living tissue
equivalents for drug testing, disease modeling, and regenerative medicine. As techniques …

Biomaterials based cardiac patches for the treatment of myocardial infarction

T Chang, C Liu, K Lu, Y Wu, M Xu, Q Yu, Z Shen… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the common cardiovascular diseases that occurs with a
blockage in one or more of the coronary arteries to lead to the damage of the myocardium …