Conductive polymer‐based bioelectronic platforms toward sustainable and biointegrated devices: a journey from skin to brain across human body interfaces

O Bettucci, GM Matrone… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few years, organic bioelectronics has experienced an exponential growth with
applications encompassing platforms for tissue engineering, drug delivery systems …

Engineering the cellular microenvironment of post-infarct myocardium on a chip

NN Khalil, ML McCain - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Myocardial infarctions are one of the most common forms of cardiac injury and death
worldwide. Infarctions cause immediate necrosis in a localized region of the myocardium …

[HTML][HTML] Fusing spheroids to aligned μ-tissues in a heart-on-chip featuring oxygen sensing and electrical pacing capabilities

O Schneider, A Moruzzi, S Fuchs, A Grobel… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, Organ-on-Chip (OoC) emerged as a promising technology for
advanced in vitro models, recapitulating key physiological cues. OoC approaches tailored …

A myocardial infarct border-zone-on-a-chip demonstrates distinct regulation of cardiac tissue function by an oxygen gradient

ML Rexius-Hall, NN Khalil, SS Escopete, X Li, J Hu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
After a myocardial infarction, the boundary between the injured, hypoxic tissue and the
adjacent viable, normoxic tissue, known as the border zone, is characterized by an oxygen …

Engineering aligned human cardiac muscle using developmentally inspired fibronectin micropatterns

I Batalov, Q Jallerat, S Kim, J Bliley, AW Feinberg - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cardiac two-dimensional tissues were engineered using biomimetic micropatterns based on
the fibronectin-rich extracellular matrix (ECM) of the embryonic heart. The goal of this …

Engineering cardiac microphysiological systems to model pathological extracellular matrix remodeling

NR Ariyasinghe, DM Lyra-Leite… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Many cardiovascular diseases are associated with pathological remodeling of the
extracellular matrix (ECM) in the myocardium. ECM remodeling is a complex, multifactorial …

Mitochondrial architecture in cardiac myocytes depends on cell shape and matrix rigidity

DM Lyra-Leite, AP Petersen, NR Ariyasinghe… - Journal of Molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contraction of cardiac myocytes depends on energy generated by the mitochondria. During
cardiac development and disease, the structure and function of the mitochondrial network in …

Engineering anisotropic cardiac monolayers on microelectrode arrays for non-invasive analyses of electrophysiological properties

A Alassaf, G Tansik, V Mayo, L Wubker, D Carbonero… - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A standard culture of cardiac cells as unorganized monolayers on tissue culture plastic or
glass does not recapitulate the architectural or the mechanical properties of native …

Aligned human cardiac syncytium for in vitro analysis of electrical, structural, and mechanical readouts

BN Napiwocki, D Lang, A Stempien… - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC‐CMs) have emerged as an
exciting new tool for cardiac research and can serve as a preclinical platform for drug …

Matrix-guided control of mitochondrial function in cardiac myocytes

DM Lyra-Leite, AM Andres, N Cho, AP Petersen… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
In ventricular myocardium, extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling is a hallmark of
physiological and pathological growth, coincident with metabolic rewiring of cardiac …