Reconstructing the heart using iPSCs: Engineering strategies and applications

S Cho, C Lee, MA Skylar-Scott, SC Heilshorn… - Journal of Molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have emerged as a key component of cardiac tissue
engineering, enabling studies of cardiovascular disease mechanisms, drug responses, and …

The skeletal muscle fiber: a mechanically sensitive cell

LA Olsen, JX Nicoll, AC Fry - European journal of applied physiology, 2019 - Springer
The plasticity of skeletal muscle, whether an increase in size, change in metabolism, or
alteration in structural properties, is in a continuous state of flux largely dependent upon …

Engineering microsphere-loaded non-mulberry silk-based 3D bioprinted vascularized cardiac patches with oxygen-releasing and immunomodulatory potential

S Mehrotra, RD Singh, A Bandyopadhyay… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A hostile myocardial microenvironment post ischemic injury (myocardial infarction) plays a
decisive role in determining the fate of tissue-engineered approaches. Therefore …

Generation and maturation of human iPSC-derived 3D organotypic cardiac microtissues in long-term culture

E Ergir, J Oliver-De La Cruz, S Fernandes, M Cassani… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide; hence there is an
increasing focus on developing physiologically relevant in vitro cardiovascular tissue …

Engineering anisotropic human stem cell-derived three-dimensional cardiac tissue on-a-chip

J Veldhuizen, J Cutts, DA Brafman, RQ Migrino… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite significant efforts in the study of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), they persist as the
leading cause of mortality worldwide. Considerable research into human pluripotent stem …

Traction force microscopy of engineered cardiac tissues

FS Pasqualini, A Agarwal, BB O'Connor, Q Liu… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Cardiac tissue development and pathology have been shown to depend sensitively on
microenvironmental mechanical factors, such as extracellular matrix stiffness, in both in vivo …

Mechanotranduction pathways in the regulation of mitochondrial homeostasis in cardiomyocytes

H Liao, Y Qi, Y Ye, P Yue, D Zhang, Y Li - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are one of the most important organelles in cardiomyocytes. Mitochondrial
homeostasis is necessary for the maintenance of normal heart function. Mitochondria …

Recent advances in tailoring stimuli-responsive hybrid scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering and allied applications

S Mehrotra, S Dey, K Sachdeva, S Mohanty… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To recapitulate bio-physical properties and functional behaviour of native heart tissues,
recent tissue engineering-based approaches are focused on developing smart/stimuli …

Troponin destabilization impairs sarcomere-cytoskeleton interactions in iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes from dilated cardiomyopathy patients

Y Dai, A Amenov, N Ignatyeva, A Koschinski, H Xu… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The sarcomeric troponin-tropomyosin complex is a critical mediator of excitation-contraction
coupling, sarcomeric stability and force generation. We previously reported that induced …

Generation and Culture of Cardiac Microtissues in a Microfluidic Chip with a Reversible Open Top Enables Electrical Pacing, Dynamic Drug Dosing and Endothelial …

A Vivas, C IJspeert, JY Pan, K Vermeul… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular disease morbidity has increased worldwide. Organs‐on‐chips and human
pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) technologies aid to overcome some of the limitations in cardiac …