World Health Organization estimated that heart failure initiated by coronary artery disease
and myocardial infarction (MI) leads to 29 per cent of deaths worldwide. Heart failure is one …

The primary goal of this study was to characterize the response of chondrocyte-seeded
agarose constructs to varying concentrations of several key nutrients in a chondrogenic …

Gold nanostructures can be incorporated into macroporous scaffolds to increase the matrix
conductivity and enhance the electrical signal transfer between cardiac cells. Here we report …

We investigated the effects of the initial stiffness of a three‐dimensional elastomer scaffold—
highly porous poly (glycerol sebacate)—on functional assembly of cardiomyocytes cultured …

The requirements for engineering clinically sized cardiac constructs include medium
perfusion (to maintain cell viability throughout the construct volume) and the protection of …

Scaffold tissue engineering strategies for repairing and replacing soft tissue aim to improve
reconstructive and corrective surgical techniques whose limitations include suboptimal …

Different tissue-engineering approaches have been developed to induce and promote
cardiac regeneration; however, the impact of the immune system and its responses to the …

Myocardial tissue engineering (MTE) is an exciting front of research which is both highly
competitive and extremely challenging for researchers. MTE aims to attenuate the functional …

Myocardial infarction (MI) causes massive heart muscle death and remains a leading cause
of death in the world. Cardiac tissue engineering aims to replace the infarcted tissues with …

We review here the current research status on bioreactors for tissue engineering with cell
electrical stimulation. Depending on the cell types, electrical stimulation has distinct …