Mending a broken heart: current strategies and limitations of cell-based therapy

LC Liew, BX Ho, BS Soh - Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2020 - Springer
The versatility of pluripotent stem cells, attributable to their unlimited self-renewal capacity
and plasticity, has sparked a considerable interest for potential application in regenerative …

Stem cell technology in cardiac regeneration: a pluripotent stem cell promise

R Duelen, M Sampaolesi - EBioMedicine, 2017 - thelancet.com
Despite advances in cardiovascular biology and medical therapy, heart disorders are the
leading cause of death worldwide. Cell-based regenerative therapies become a promising …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes as a platform for cell therapy applications: progress and hurdles for clinical translation

A Oikonomopoulos, T Kitani, JC Wu - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Regenerative therapy has been applied to restore lost cardiac muscle and cardiac …

Transplantation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for cardiac regenerative therapy

SE Silver, RW Barrs, Y Mei - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and bears an immense
economic burden. Late-stage heart failure often requires total heart transplantation; …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and challenge of cardiac regeneration to treat heart failure

M Isomi, T Sadahiro, M Ieda - Journal of cardiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cardiac muscle has limited proliferative capacity, and regenerative therapies are highly in
demand as a new treatment strategy. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies …

The march of pluripotent stem cells in cardiovascular regenerative medicine

H Abou-Saleh, FA Zouein, A El-Yazbi… - Stem cell research & …, 2018 - Springer
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of global morbidity and
mortality. Heart failure remains a major contributor to this mortality. Despite major …

Regenerative medicine for the heart: perspectives on stem-cell therapy

GS Cho, L Fernandez, C Kwon - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Despite decades of progress in cardiovascular biology and medicine, heart
disease remains the leading cause of death, and there is no cure for the failing heart. Since …

Cardiac cell therapy for heart repair: should the cells be left out?

D Zhu, K Cheng - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still the leading cause of death worldwide. Coronary artery
occlusion, or myocardial infarction (MI) causes massive loss of cardiomyocytes. The …

[HTML][HTML] How to repair a broken heart with pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

T Eschenhagen, K Ridders, F Weinberger - Journal of molecular and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heart regeneration addresses a central problem in cardiology, the irreversibility of the loss of
myocardium that eventually leads to heart failure. True restoration of heart function can only …

Perspectives on Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiac Regeneration–Advances and Challenges–

SH Choi, SY Jung, SM Kwon, SH Baek - Circulation Journal, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Because the heart is a postmitotic organ, cardiomyocytes are in a state of cell cycle arrest.
However, some experiments using the newt and zebrafish have confirmed that the damaged …