Synthetic alternatives to Matrigel

EA Aisenbrey, WL Murphy - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Matrigel, a basement-membrane matrix extracted from Engelbreth–Holm–Swarm mouse
sarcomas, has been used for more than four decades for a myriad of cell-culture …

Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

SARS-CoV-2 induces double-stranded RNA-mediated innate immune responses in respiratory epithelial-derived cells and cardiomyocytes

Y Li, DM Renner, CE Comar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Coronaviruses are adept at evading host antiviral pathways induced by viral double-
stranded RNA, including interferon (IFN) signaling, oligoadenylate synthetase–ribonuclease …

Human embryonic stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes restore function in infarcted hearts of non-human primates

YW Liu, B Chen, X Yang, JA Fugate, FA Kalucki… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocyte grafts can remuscularize substantial amounts
of infarcted myocardium and beat in synchrony with the heart, but in some settings cause …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based thermoresponsive composite hydrogels for biomedical applications

X Xu, Y Liu, W Fu, M Yao, Z Ding, J Xuan, D Li, S Wang… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM)-based thermosensitive hydrogels demonstrate great
potential in biomedical applications. However, they have inherent drawbacks such as low …

Nanowired human cardiac organoid transplantation enables highly efficient and effective recovery of infarcted hearts

Y Tan, RC Coyle, RW Barrs, SE Silver, M Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Human cardiac organoids hold remarkable potential for cardiovascular disease modeling
and human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocyte (hPSC-CM) transplantation. Here …

Allogeneic transplantation of iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes regenerates primate hearts

Y Shiba, T Gomibuchi, T Seto, Y Wada, H Ichimura… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) constitute a potential source of autologous patient-
specific cardiomyocytes for cardiac repair, providing a major benefit over other sources of …

Highly stretchable and biocompatible wrinkled nanoclay‐composite hydrogel with enhanced sensing capability for precise detection of myocardial infarction

J Zhang, S Shen, R Lin, J Huang, C Pu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is challenging to balance high biocompability with good mechanical–electrical sensing
performance, especially when triggering inflammatory stress response after in vivo …

Defined engineered human myocardium with advanced maturation for applications in heart failure modeling and repair

M Tiburcy, JE Hudson, P Balfanz, S Schlick, T Meyer… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Advancing structural and functional maturation of stem cell–derived
cardiomyocytes remains a key challenge for applications in disease modeling, drug …

Cardiopatch platform enables maturation and scale-up of human pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered heart tissues

IY Shadrin, BW Allen, Y Qian, CP Jackman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Despite increased use of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
(hiPSC-CMs) for drug development and disease modeling studies, methods to generate …