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 …

Making muscle: skeletal myogenesis in vivo and in vitro

J Chal, O Pourquié - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Skeletal muscle is the largest tissue in the body and loss of its function or its regenerative
properties results in debilitating musculoskeletal disorders. Understanding the mechanisms …

Human-iPSC-derived cardiac stromal cells enhance maturation in 3D cardiac microtissues and reveal non-cardiomyocyte contributions to heart disease

E Giacomelli, V Meraviglia, G Campostrini, A Cochrane… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cardiomyocytes (CMs) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are functionally
immature, but this is improved by incorporation into engineered tissues or forced contraction …

A platform for generation of chamber-specific cardiac tissues and disease modeling

Y Zhao, N Rafatian, NT Feric, BJ Cox, R Aschar-Sobbi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Tissue engineering using cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells holds a
promise to revolutionize drug discovery, but only if limitations related to cardiac chamber …

Therapeutic approaches for cardiac regeneration and repair

H Hashimoto, EN Olson, R Bassel-Duby - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Ischaemic heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Injury to the heart is
followed by loss of the damaged cardiomyocytes, which are replaced with fibrotic scar …

[HTML][HTML] Co-emergence of cardiac and gut tissues promotes cardiomyocyte maturation within human iPSC-derived organoids

AC Silva, OB Matthys, DA Joy, MA Kauss, V Natarajan… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
During embryogenesis, paracrine signaling between tissues in close proximity contributes to
the determination of their respective cell fate (s) and development into functional organs …

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 …

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 …

Dual stem cell therapy synergistically improves cardiac function and vascular regeneration following myocardial infarction

SJ Park, RY Kim, BW Park, S Lee, SW Choi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Since both myocardium and vasculature in the heart are excessively damaged following
myocardial infarction (MI), therapeutic strategies for treating MI hearts should concurrently …

Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells to cardiomyocytes: a methods overview

CL Mummery, J Zhang, ES Ng, DA Elliott… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Since human embryonic stem cells were first differentiated to beating cardiomyocytes a
decade ago, interest in their potential applications has increased exponentially. This has …