The enhancement of wound healing has been a goal of medical practitioners for thousands
of years. The development of chronic, non-healing wounds is a persistent medical problem …

Thermoresponsive surfaces, prepared by grafting of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PIPAAm)
or its copolymers, have been investigated for biomedical applications. Thermoresponsive …

Stem cell therapy is a promising therapeutic method for the treatment of ischemic heart
diseases; however, some challenges prohibit the efficacy after cell delivery due to hostile …

Aims Comparative studies suggest that stem cells committed to a cardiac lineage are more
effective for improving heart function than those featuring an extra-cardiac phenotype. We …

Introduction: Developing in vitro models for studying cell biology and cell physiology is of
great importance to the fields of biotechnology, cancer research, drug discovery, toxicity …

Twenty years after the initial description of a tissue engineered construct, 3-dimensional
human cardiac tissues of different kinds are now generated routinely in many laboratories …

Cell sheet tissue engineering is a concept for creating transplantable two‐dimensional (2D)
and three‐dimensional (3D) tissues and organs. This review describes three elements of …

The fabrication of 3D tissues retaining the original functions of tissues/organs in vitro is
crucial for optimal tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The fabrication of 3D …

Stem cell-derived sheet engineering has been developed as the next-generation treatment
for myocardial infarction (MI) and offers attractive advantages in comparison with direct stem …

In the past decades, numerous preclinical studies and several clinical trials have evidenced
the feasibility of cell transplantation in treating heart diseases. Over the years, different …