Biomaterials in cardiovascular research: applications and clinical implications

SK Jaganathan, E Supriyanto… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular biomaterials (CB) dominate the category of biomaterials based on the
demand and investments in this field. This review article classifies the CB into three major …

Patching the heart: cardiac repair from within and outside

L Ye, WH Zimmermann, DJ Garry, J Zhang - Circulation research, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Transplantation of engineered tissue patches containing either progenitor cells or
cardiomyocytes for cardiac repair is emerging as an exciting treatment option for patients …

Capturing cardiogenesis in gastruloids

G Rossi, N Broguiere, M Miyamoto, A Boni, R Guiet… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Organoids are powerful models for studying tissue development, physiology, and disease.
However, current culture systems disrupt the inductive tissue-tissue interactions needed for …

Exosomes/microvesicles from induced pluripotent stem cells deliver cardioprotective miRNAs and prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis in the ischemic myocardium

Y Wang, L Zhang, Y Li, L Chen, X Wang, W Guo… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background/objectives Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) exhibit enhanced survival and
proliferation in ischemic tissues. However, the therapeutic application of iPS cells is limited …

[HTML][HTML] Thymosin β4 increases cardiac cell proliferation, cell engraftment, and the reparative potency of human induced-pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes …

SH Tan, SJ Loo, Y Gao, ZH Tao, LP Su, CX Wang… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Previous studies have shown that human embryonic stem cell-derived
cardiomyocytes improved myocardial recovery when administered to infarcted pig and non …

Overcoming the roadblocks to cardiac cell therapy using tissue engineering

M Yanamandala, W Zhu, DJ Garry, TJ Kamp… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Transplantations of various stem cells or their progeny have repeatedly improved cardiac
performance in animal models of myocardial injury; however, the benefits observed in …

Functional effects of a tissue-engineered cardiac patch from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in a rat infarct model

JS Wendel, L Ye, R Tao, J Zhang… - Stem cells …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A tissue-engineered cardiac patch provides a method to deliver cardiomyoctes to the injured
myocardium with high cell retention and large, controlled infarct coverage, enhancing the …

Cardiac fibroblasts and myocardial regeneration

W Chen, W Bian, Y Zhou, J Zhang - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The billions of cardiomyocytes lost to acute myocardial infarction (MI) cannot be replaced by
the limited regenerative capacity of adult mammalian hearts, and despite decades of …

Cardiac differentiation of bone-marrow-resident c-kit+ stem cells by L-carnitine increases through secretion of VEGF, IL6, IGF-1, and TGF-β as clinical agents in …

E Fathi, R Farahzadi, I Vietor, S Javanmardi - Journal of biosciences, 2020 - Springer
The idea of regenerating lost myocardium via cell-based therapies remains as highly
considerable. C-kit+ stem/progenitor cells are represented to be suitable candidates for …

Cryopreservation of human iPS cell aggregates in a DMSO-free solution—an optimization and comparative study

R Li, K Hornberger, JR Dutton, A Hubel - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are an important cell source for regenerative
medicine products. Effective methods of preservation are critical to their clinical and …