Heart organoids and tissue models for modeling development and disease

M Miyamoto, L Nam, S Kannan, C Kwon - Seminars in cell & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Organoids, or miniaturized organs formed in vitro, hold potential to revolutionize how
researchers approach and answer fundamental biological and pathological questions. In the …

State-of-the-Art Differentiation Protocols for Patient-Derived Cardiac Pacemaker Cells

E Torre, ME Mangoni, A Lacampagne, AC Meli… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes raise the possibility of
generating pluripotent stem cells from a wide range of human diseases. In the cardiology …

The trophoblast compartment helps maintain embryonic pluripotency and delays differentiation towards cardiomyocytes

X Zhao, BN Radford, M Ungrin, W Dean… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Normal developmental progression relies on close interactions between the embryonic and
extraembryonic lineages in the pre-and peri-gastrulation stage conceptus. For example …

devCellPy is a machine learning-enabled pipeline for automated annotation of complex multilayered single-cell transcriptomic data

FX Galdos, S Xu, WR Goodyer, L Duan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A major informatic challenge in single cell RNA-sequencing analysis is the precise
annotation of datasets where cells exhibit complex multilayered identities or transitory states …

G9a inactivation in progenitor cells with Isl1-Cre with reduced recombinase activity models aspects of Dandy-Walker complex

L Chi, L Zhong, D Lee, X Yu, A Caballero… - Biology …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT G9a, also known as EHMT2, is essential for embryogenesis and has specific
functions in multiple developmental processes. G9a inactivation affects development of the …

At early stages of heart development, the first and second heart fields are a continuum of lateral head mesoderm-derived, cardiogenic cells

M Wolton, MG Davey, S Dietrich - Developmental Biology, 2025 - Elsevier
Pioneering work in the chicken established that the initial development of the heart consists
of two stages: the quick assembly of a beating heart, followed by the recruitment of cells from …

Drosophila as a Model to Understand Second Heart Field Development

C Bileckyj, B Blotz, RM Cripps - Journal of Cardiovascular Development …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The genetic model system Drosophila has contributed fundamentally to our understanding
of mammalian heart specification, development, and congenital heart disease. The relatively …

A high-throughput gene expression analysis software tool for developmental time series and gene signature analysis of human cardiomyocyte differentiation

I Bartlett, J Kinne, G Martin, K Coombes… - …, 2024 - f1000research.com
Publicly available high-throughput gene expression data enable the investigation of
biological processes by the scientific community. Although several bioinformatics tools offer …

Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics of Human Cardiovascular Progenitors in Pig Hearts Identifies MIDKINE as a Positive Regulator of Neovascularization

L Yap, S Adusumalli, S Lim, V Ren, KS Leong… - 2025 - researchsquare.com
Stem cell-based therapy has shown promise for regenerating infarcted heart tissue, yet the
molecular dynamics and cellular fate of transplanted cells within the myocardium remain …

Spatiotemporal Transcriptomes of Pig Hearts Reveal Midkine-Mediated Vascularization in a Chronic Myocardial Infarcted Model

S Adusumalli, S Lim, V Ren, LY Chong, C Tan, R Tham… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Ischemic heart disease is the most prevalent cause of death globally. Regenerative
cardiology using stem cell-based therapy is a potential approach to replace infarcted …