[HTML][HTML] Tissue Engineering Approaches in the Design of Healthy and Pathological In Vitro Tissue Models

S Caddeo, M Boffito, S Sartori - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the tissue engineering (TE) paradigm, engineering and life sciences tools are combined
to develop bioartificial substitutes for organs and tissues, which can in turn be applied in …

Organotypic and microphysiological human tissue models for drug discovery and development—current state-of-the-art and future perspectives

S Youhanna, AM Kemas, L Preiss, Y Zhou… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - ASPET
The number of successful drug development projects has been stagnant for decades
despite major breakthroughs in chemistry, molecular biology, and genetics. Unreliable target …

Cardiac microphysiological devices with flexible thin-film sensors for higher-throughput drug screening

JU Lind, M Yadid, I Perkins, BB O'Connor, F Eweje… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Microphysiological systems and organs-on-chips promise to accelerate biomedical and
pharmaceutical research by providing accurate in vitro replicas of human tissue. Aside from …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal cell junction assembly in human iPSC-CM models of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

SL Kim, MA Trembley, KY Lee, S Choi, LA MacQueen… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an inherited cardiac disorder that causes life-
threatening arrhythmias and myocardial dysfunction. Pathogenic variants in Plakophilin-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional TIRF-SIM–traction force microscopy (2D TIRF-SIM-TFM)

L Barbieri, H Colin-York, K Korobchevskaya… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantifying small, rapidly evolving forces generated by cells is a major challenge for the
understanding of biomechanics and mechanobiology in health and disease. Traction force …

Contractility and calcium transient maturation in the human iPSC-derived cardiac microfibers

D Strimaityte, C Tu, A Yanez, I Itzhaki… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) are considered
immature in the sarcomere organization, contractile machinery, calcium transient, and …

[HTML][HTML] Human iPSC-derived myocardium-on-chip with capillary-like flow for personalized medicine

BW Ellis, A Acun, UI Can, P Zorlutuna - Biomicrofluidics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The heart wall tissue, or the myocardium, is one of the main targets in cardiovascular
disease prevention and treatment. Animal models have not been sufficient in mimicking the …

Human heart anoxia and reperfusion tissue (HEART) model for the rapid study of exosome bound miRNA expression as biomarkers for myocardial infarction

BW Ellis, G Ronan, X Ren, G Bahcecioglu, S Senapati… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current biomarkers for myocardial infarction (MI) diagnosis are typically late markers
released upon cell death, incapable of distinguishing between ischemic and reperfusion …

[HTML][HTML] Traction force microscopy of engineered cardiac tissues

FS Pasqualini, A Agarwal, BB O'Connor, Q Liu… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Cardiac tissue development and pathology have been shown to depend sensitively on
microenvironmental mechanical factors, such as extracellular matrix stiffness, in both in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Y Hong, Y Zhao, H Li, Y Yang, M Chen… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The maturation of human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hSC-CMs) has been a major
challenge to further expand the scope of their application. Over the past years, several …