Heart-on-a-chip platforms and biosensor integration for disease modeling and phenotypic drug screening

J Criscione, Z Rezaei, CMH Cantu, S Murphy… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and imposes a significant burden on
healthcare systems globally. A major hurdle to the development of more effective …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium handling maturation and adaptation to increased substrate stiffness in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes: The impact of full-length dystrophin …

JM Pioner, L Santini, C Palandri, M Langione… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cardiomyocytes differentiated from human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSC-CMs) are
a unique source for modelling inherited cardiomyopathies. In particular, the possibility of …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy with Patients' Induced Pluripotent Stem-Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

B Eisen, O Binah - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked progressive muscle degenerative
disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, resulting in death by the end of the …

Incomplete-penetrant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy MYH7 G256E mutation causes hypercontractility and elevated mitochondrial respiration

S Lee, AS Vander Roest, CA Blair… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Determining the pathogenicity of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy–associated mutations in the
β-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) can be challenging due to its variable penetrance and clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-guided engineering of a fast genetically encoded sensor for real-time H2O2 monitoring

JD Lee, W Won, K Kimball, Y Wang, F Yeboah… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Hydrogen Peroxide (H 2 O 2) is a central oxidant in redox biology due to its
pleiotropic role in physiology and pathology. However, real-time monitoring of H 2 O 2 in …

[HTML][HTML] PIV-MyoMonitor: an accessible particle image velocimetry-based software tool for advanced contractility assessment of cardiac organoids

H Lee, B Kim, J Yun, J Bae, S Park, J Jeon… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cardiac organoids offer a versatile platform for
personalized cardiac toxicity assessment, drug screening, disease modeling, and …

Mimicking sarcolemmal damage in vitro: a contractile 3D model of skeletal muscle for drug testing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

A Tejedera-Villafranca, M Montolio… - …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most prevalent neuromuscular disease
diagnosed in childhood. It is a progressive and wasting disease, characterized by a …

Right ventricular preload and afterload challenge induces contractile dysfunction and arrhythmia in isolated hearts of dystrophin‐deficient male mice

A Behrmann, J Cayton, MR Hayden… - Physiological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X‐linked recessive myopathy due to mutations
in the dystrophin gene. Diaphragmatic weakness in DMD causes hypoventilation and …

Multi-scale models reveal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy MYH7 G256E mutation drives hypercontractility and elevated mitochondrial respiration

S Lee, ASV Roest, CA Blair, K Kao, SB Bremner… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Rationale Over 200 mutations in the sarcomeric protein β-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) have
been linked to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, different mutations in MYH7 …

[HTML][HTML] Far-red and sensitive sensor for monitoring real time H2O2 dynamics with subcellular resolution and in multi-parametric imaging applications

A Berndt, J Lee, A Nguyen, Z Jin, A Moghadasi… - Research …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
H 2 O 2 is a key oxidant in mammalian biology and a pleiotropic signaling molecule at the
physiological level, and its excessive accumulation in conjunction with decreased cellular …