Fibers for hearts: A critical review on electrospinning for cardiac tissue engineering

M Kitsara, O Agbulut, D Kontziampasis, Y Chen… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Cardiac cell therapy holds a real promise for improving heart function and especially of the
chronically failing myocardium. Embedding cells into 3D biodegradable scaffolds may better …

[HTML][HTML] Biofabrication methods for reconstructing extracellular matrix mimetics

A Aazmi, D Zhang, C Mazzaglia, M Yu, Z Wang… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In the human body, almost all cells interact with extracellular matrices (ECMs), which have
tissue and organ-specific compositions and architectures. These ECMs not only function as …

3D printing of personalized thick and perfusable cardiac patches and hearts

N Noor, A Shapira, R Edri, I Gal, L Wertheim… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Generation of thick vascularized tissues that fully match the patient still remains an unmet
challenge in cardiac tissue engineering. Here, a simple approach to 3D‐print thick …

Nanoengineered peptide‐based antimicrobial conductive supramolecular biomaterial for cardiac tissue engineering

P Chakraborty, H Oved, D Bychenko, Y Yao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their dynamic nature and ordered architecture, supramolecular materials strikingly
resemble organic components of living systems. Although short‐peptide self‐assembled …

Bioengineering approaches to treat the failing heart: from cell biology to 3D printing

M Yadid, H Oved, E Silberman, T Dvir - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2022 - nature.com
Successfully engineering a functional, human, myocardial pump would represent a
therapeutic alternative for the millions of patients with end-stage heart disease and provide …

Gold nanoparticle-decorated scaffolds promote neuronal differentiation and maturation

K Baranes, M Shevach, O Shefi, T Dvir - Nano letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Engineered 3D neuronal networks are considered a promising approach for repairing the
damaged spinal cord. However, the lack of a technological platform encouraging axonal …

Conductive scaffolds for cardiac and neuronal tissue engineering: governing factors and mechanisms

A Burnstine‐Townley, Y Eshel… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering is a promising therapeutic approach in medicine, targeting the
replacement of a diseased tissue with a healthy one grown within an artificial scaffold. Due …

Electrohydrodynamic 3D printing of layer-specifically oriented, multiscale conductive scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering

Q Lei, J He, D Li - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Mimicking the hierarchical microarchitecture of native myocardium in vitro plays an important
role in cardiac tissue engineering. Here we present a novel strategy to produce multiscale …

Modular assembly of thick multifunctional cardiac patches

S Fleischer, A Shapira, R Feiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
In cardiac tissue engineering cells are seeded within porous biomaterial scaffolds to create
functional cardiac patches. Here, we report on a bottom-up approach to assemble a modular …

[HTML][HTML] Electroconductive polyurethane/graphene nanocomposite for biomedical applications

S Bahrami, A Solouk, H Mirzadeh… - Composites Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Developing smart biomaterials with tailor-made properties is a key factor to successful tissue
regeneration. The aims of this study were 1) development and characterization of graphene …