Advances in Cardiac Tissue Engineering [PDF]
Tissue engineering has paved the way for the development of artificial human cardiac muscle patches (hCMPs) and cardiac tissue analogs, especially for treating Myocardial infarction (MI), often by increasing its regenerative abilities.
Takahiro Kitsuka +7 more
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Artificial Scaffolds in Cardiac Tissue Engineering [PDF]
Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Current treatments directed at heart repair have several disadvantages, such as a lack of donors for heart transplantation or non-bioactive inert materials for replacing damaged tissue ...
Jorge A. Roacho-Pérez +11 more
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Advances and Prospects in Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for 3D Bioprinting in Cardiac Tissue Engineering [PDF]
Background: Cardiovascular diseases remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Given the limited self-repair capacity of cardiac tissue, cardiac tissue engineering (CTE) aims to develop strategies and materials for repairing ...
Baoluo Du +4 more
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Integrative approaches in cardiac tissue engineering: Bridging cellular complexity to create accurate physiological models [PDF]
Summary: Recent innovations in cardiac tissue engineering (TE) have yet to fully harness integrative genomic mapping of cellular niches to replicate the spatially organized cellular communities and extracellular matrix (ECM) microniches of the heart ...
Dilip Thomas, Joseph C. Wu
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Cardiac Tissue Engineering for the Treatment of Myocardial Infarction [PDF]
Poor cell engraftment rate is one of the primary factors limiting the effectiveness of cell transfer therapy for cardiac repair. Recent studies have shown that the combination of cell-based therapy and tissue engineering technology can improve stem cell ...
Dongmin Yu, Xiaowei Wang, Lei Ye
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Cardiac Tissue Engineering: A Journey from Scaffold Fabrication to In Vitro Characterization [PDF]
Cardiac tissue engineering has been rapidly evolving with diverse applications, ranging from the repair of fibrotic tissue caused by “adverse remodeling,” to the replacement of specific segments of heart tissue, and ultimately to the creation of a whole ...
Farinaz Ketabat +4 more
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Electrically conductive carbon‐based (bio)‐nanomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering [PDF]
A proper self‐regenerating capability is lacking in human cardiac tissue which along with the alarming rate of deaths associated with cardiovascular disorders makes tissue engineering critical.
Negin Jalilinejad +13 more
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Cardiac tissue engineering: Multiple approaches and potential applications [PDF]
The overall increase in cardiovascular diseases and, specifically, the ever-rising exposure to cardiotoxic compounds has greatly increased in vivo animal testing; however, mainly due to ethical concerns related to experimental animal models, there is a ...
Ilaria Gisone +6 more
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Chitosan–Polyethylene Glycol Inspired Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogel Templates Favoring NEO-Tissue Formation for Cardiac Tissue Engineering [PDF]
Neo-tissue formation and host tissue regeneration determine the success of cardiac tissue engineering where functional hydrogel scaffolds act as cardiac (extracellular matrix) ECM mimic.
Angelo Keklikian +8 more
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Organ-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies in Cardiac Tissue Engineering [PDF]
Microfluidic technologies have ushered in a new era in cardiac tissue engineering, providing more predictive in vitro models compared to two-dimensional culture studies. This review examines Organ-on-a-Chip (OoC) and Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) platforms, with a
Daniele Marazzi +3 more
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