Cardiomyocyte maturation: advances in knowledge and implications for regenerative medicine

E Karbassi, A Fenix, S Marchiano, N Muraoka… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Our knowledge of pluripotent stem cell (PSC) biology has advanced to the point where we
now can generate most cells of the human body in the laboratory. PSC-derived …

In vitro Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases

A Slanzi, G Iannoto, B Rossi, E Zenaro… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive degenerative conditions characterized by the
functional deterioration and ultimate loss of neurons. These incurable and debilitating …

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 …

Generating ring-shaped engineered heart tissues from ventricular and atrial human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

I Goldfracht, S Protze, A Shiti, N Setter, A Gruber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The functions of the heart are achieved through coordination of different cardiac cell
subtypes (eg, ventricular, atrial, conduction-tissue cardiomyocytes). Human pluripotent stem …

Unraveling the mechanistic effects of electric field stimulation towards directing stem cell fate and function: A tissue engineering perspective

G Thrivikraman, SK Boda, B Basu - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Electric field (EF) stimulation can play a vital role in eliciting appropriate stem cell response.
Such an approach is recently being established to guide stem cell differentiation through …

Engineering adolescence: maturation of human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes

X Yang, L Pabon, CE Murry - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
The discovery of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including both human embryonic
stem cells and human-induced pluripotent stem cells, has opened up novel paths for a wide …

Directed cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells by modulating Wnt/β-catenin signaling under fully defined conditions

X Lian, J Zhang, SM Azarin, K Zhu, LB Hazeltine… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
The protocol described here efficiently directs human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to
functional cardiomyocytes in a completely defined, growth factor–and serum-free system by …

Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes: insights into molecular, cellular, and functional phenotypes

I Karakikes, M Ameen, V Termglinchan… - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Disease models are essential for understanding cardiovascular disease pathogenesis and
developing new therapeutics. The human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology …

Biowire: a platform for maturation of human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes

SS Nunes, JW Miklas, J Liu, R Aschar-Sobbi, Y Xiao… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Directed differentiation protocols enable derivation of cardiomyocytes from human
pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and permit engineering of human myocardium in vitro …

Robust cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells via temporal modulation of canonical Wnt signaling

X Lian, C Hsiao, G Wilson, K Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer the potential to generate large numbers of
functional cardiomyocytes from clonal and patient-specific cell sources. Here we show that …