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Bioprinting High‐Cell‐Density Cardiac Tissue Constructs With Sustained Contractile Function

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Contractile cardiomyocytes in 3D culture provide insights into the behavior of the heart. Combining a 3D bioprinting approach with a multi‐electrode array allows the development of the 3D culture to be monitored over time, and matured cultures allow the effect of drugs on cardiac function to be modelled, replicating effects seen in clinical application.
Priscila Melo, Wing Tai Tung, Harvey Lewis, Kavin Hettiarachchilage, Babis Tzivelekis, Rolando Berlinguer‐Palmini, Ana Marina Ferreira, Jason Gill, Kenneth Dalgarno   +8 more
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Diversity in connexin biology

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023
Over 35 years ago the cell biology community was introduced to connexins as the subunit employed to assemble semicrystalline clusters of intercellular channels that had been well described morphologically as gap junctions. The decade that followed would see knowledge of the unexpectedly large 21-member human connexin family grow to reflect unique and ...
Sergiu A. Lucaciu, Stephanie E. Leighton, Alexandra Hauser, Ryan Yee, Dale W. Laird   +4 more
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Divergence between Hemichannel and Gap Junction Permeabilities of Connexin 30 and 26

Life, 2023
Cx30 has been proposed to play physiological functions in the kidney and cochlea, and this has often been associated with its hemichannel role (deafness mutants frequently affecting hemichannels more than gap junctions), implicated in ATP release.
Ji Xu, Bruce J. Nicholson
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Patient‐Derived 3D Heart‐On‐a‐Chip Model of Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Embedded Bead‐Based Mapping of Tissue Contractility

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A heart‐on‐a‐chip model of dilated cardiomyopathy is developed from patient‐derived induced pluripotent stem cells. The model recapitulates key disease phenotypes and enables functional assessment through integrated bead‐based tracking and pillar deflection measurements.
Ali Mousavi, Ludovic Mouttet, Shihao Cui, Yasaman Hekmatnia, Mehran Mottahedi, Ida Derish, Naimeh Rafatian, Mark Aurousseau, Gregor Andelfinger, Renzo Cecere, Houman Savoji   +10 more
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Cellular and deafness mechanisms underlying connexin mutation induced hearing loss – A common hereditary deafness

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015
Hearing loss due to mutations in the connexin gene family which encodes gap junctional proteins is a common form of hereditary deafness. In particular, connexin 26 (Cx26, GJB2) mutations are responsible for ~50% of nonsyndromic hearing loss, which is the
Jeffrey C Wingard, Hong-Bo eZhao
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Recent Advances in Ferrite‐Based Materials for Biomedical Applications: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Ferrite nanoplatforms are presented as tunable biomedical materials in which synthesis control, cation engineering, defect/morphology regulation, and surface functionalization govern structure–property–bioactivity relationships. These design strategies enable multifunctional applications including MRI contrast, magnetic hyperthermia, targeted drug ...
Pramod D. Mhase, Varsha C. Pujari, Akash V. Fulari, Sunil M. Patange, Sean Li, Danyang Wang, Sagar E. Shirsath   +6 more
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A Human-Derived Monoclonal Antibody Targeting Extracellular Connexin Domain Selectively Modulates Hemichannel Function

Frontiers in Physiology, 2019
Connexin hemichannels, which are plasma membrane hexameric channels (connexons) composed of connexin protein protomers, have been implicated in a host of physiological processes and pathological conditions. A number of single point pathological mutations
Gaia Ziraldo, Gaia Ziraldo, Damiano Buratto, Yuanyuan Kuang, Liang Xu, Andrea Carrer, Andrea Carrer, Chiara Nardin, Chiara Nardin, Francesco Chiani, Anna Maria Salvatore, Gaetano Paludetti, Gaetano Paludetti, Richard A. Lerner, Guang Yang, Francesco Zonta, Fabio Mammano, Fabio Mammano, Fabio Mammano   +18 more
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Developmentally Inspired Bioprinting of Nascent Multicellular Human Heart Tissue Through in Situ Differentiation and Morphogenesis of iPSCs

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A developmentally inspired bioprinting approach enables the fabrication of pluripotent tissues that undergo shape‐morphing and in situ cardiac lineage specification. This method employs embedded bioprinting to deposit iPSCs within soft granular hydrogels to create pluripotent tissue constructs that undergo cell‐mediated shape morphogenesis.
Ankita Pramanick, Juhi Chakraborty, Orlaith Kennedy, Hey Wei Wong, Sogol Kianersi, Daniel Kelly, Vasileios Sergis, Abhay Pandit, Andrew C. Daly   +8 more
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Connexin 26 and Connexin 43 in Canine Mammary Carcinoma [PDF]

Veterinary Sciences, 2019
Incidence of canine mammary carcinoma is two times higher than the rate of human breast cancer. Mammary tumors are the most common type of cancer in intact female dogs and account for about half of all neoplasms in these dogs. Well-established models of breast cancer have shown that neoplastic cells often have a loss of intercellular communication ...
Savannah Luu, Cynthia Bell, Sarah Schneider, Thu Annelise Nguyen   +3 more
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Cyclic Mechanical Loading of Cardiomyocytes via Pressure‐Driven Non‐Planar Membrane Deformation in a Bioreactor System

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In this research article, Mansoor and coworkers present a novel device that applies controlled mechanical stimuli to cardiomyocytes using pressure‐driven membrane deformation. By exposing cells to physiologically and pathologically relevant loading conditions, the platform reproduces distinct structural, functional and molecular responses associated ...
Haris Mansoor, Gabrielle Juul, Jil Patel, Heran Pradhan, Gram Hepner, Jackson Jewell, Mark Bardin, Ryan Slusser, Abigail Glezer, Leda Klouda, Melikhan Tanyeri, Anita Saraf   +11 more
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