Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

XY Tang, S Wu, D Wang, C Chu, Y Hong… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) miniature structures cultured in vitro produced from
either human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) or adult stem cells (AdSCs) derived from …

Vascular endothelial cell development and diversity

E Trimm, K Red-Horse - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2023 - nature.com
Vascular endothelial cells form the inner layer of blood vessels where they have a key role
in the development and maintenance of the functional circulatory system and provide …

Promoting the healing of infected diabetic wound by an anti-bacterial and nano-enzyme-containing hydrogel with inflammation-suppressing, ROS-scavenging, oxygen …

C Tu, H Lu, T Zhou, W Zhang, L Deng, W Cao, Z Yang… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The diabetic wound is easily to develop into a chronic wound because of the extremely
serious and complex inflammatory microenvironment including biofilm formation, over …

Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks

C O'Connor, E Brady, Y Zheng, E Moore… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The survival of vertebrate organisms depends on highly regulated delivery of oxygen and
nutrients through vascular networks that pervade nearly all tissues in the body …

Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

J Kim, BK Koo, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The historical reliance of biological research on the use of animal models has sometimes
made it challenging to address questions that are specific to the understanding of human …

Challenges and opportunities for the next generation of cardiovascular tissue engineering

S Cho, DE Discher, KW Leong, G Vunjak-Novakovic… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Engineered cardiac tissues derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells offer unique
opportunities for patient-specific disease modeling, drug discovery and cardiac repair. Since …

Generation of vascularized brain organoids to study neurovascular interactions

XY Sun, XC Ju, Y Li, PM Zeng, J Wu, YY Zhou… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Brain organoids have been used to recapitulate the processes of brain development and
related diseases. However, the lack of vasculatures, which regulate neurogenesis and brain …

Human disease models in drug development

A Loewa, JJ Feng, S Hedtrich - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Biomedical research is undergoing a paradigm shift towards approaches centred on human
disease models owing to the notoriously high failure rates of the current drug development …

Human organoid models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection

Y Han, L Yang, LA Lacko, S Chen - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is one of the deadliest pandemics in history. SARS …

Diabetic vascular diseases: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

Y Li, Y Liu, S Liu, M Gao, W Wang, K Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Vascular complications of diabetes pose a severe threat to human health. Prevention and
treatment protocols based on a single vascular complication are no longer suitable for the …