Stem cell therapy in heart diseases–cell types, mechanisms and improvement strategies

P Müller, H Lemcke, R David - Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2018 - karger.com
A large number of clinical trials have shown stem cell therapy to be a promising therapeutic
approach for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Since the first transplantation into …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cells as therapy for heart disease: iPSCs, ESCs, CSCs, and skeletal myoblasts

R Rikhtegar, M Pezeshkian, S Dolati, N Safaie… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heart Diseases are serious and global public health concern. In spite of remarkable
therapeutic developments, the prediction of patients with Heart Failure (HF) is weak, and …

[HTML][HTML] Exosome-mediated benefits of cell therapy in mouse and human models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

MA Aminzadeh, RG Rogers, M Fournier, RE Tobin… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Genetic deficiency of dystrophin leads to disability and premature death in Duchenne
muscular dystrophy (DMD), affecting the heart as well as skeletal muscle. Here, we report …

Extracellular vesicle microRNA and protein cargo profiling in three clinical-grade stem cell products reveals key functional pathways

R Vaka, S Parent, Y Risha, S Khan, D Courtman… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
The cell origin-specific payloads within extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediate therapeutic
bioactivity for a wide variety of stem cell types. In this study, we profiled the microRNA …

A mechanistic roadmap for the clinical application of cardiac cell therapies

E Marbán - Nature biomedical engineering, 2018 - nature.com
The development of cells for regenerative therapy has encountered many pitfalls on its path
to clinical translation. In cardiology, clinical studies of heart-targeted cell therapies began …

[HTML][HTML] Exosomes and cardioprotection–a critical analysis

SM Davidson, DM Yellon - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Exosomes are nano-sized vesicles released by numerous cell types that appear to have
diverse beneficial effects on the injured heart. Studies using exosomes from stem cells or …

Human cardiosphere-derived cells from advanced heart failure patients exhibit augmented functional potency in myocardial repair

K Cheng, K Malliaras, RR Smith, D Shen, B Sun… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2014 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to compare the regenerative potency of cells derived from
healthy and diseased human hearts. Background: Results from pre-clinical studies and the …

Relative Roles of CD 90 and c‐Kit to the Regenerative Efficacy of Cardiosphere‐Derived Cells in Humans and in a Mouse Model of Myocardial Infarction

K Cheng, A Ibrahim, MT Hensley, D Shen… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The regenerative potential of cardiosphere‐derived cells (CDC s) for ischemic
heart disease has been demonstrated in mice, rats, pigs, and a recently completed clinical …

Mechanically induced pyroptosis enhances cardiosphere oxidative stress resistance and metabolism for myocardial infarction therapy

Y Wang, Q Li, J Zhao, J Chen, D Wu, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Current approaches in myocardial infarction treatment are limited by low cellular oxidative
stress resistance, reducing the long-term survival of therapeutic cells. Here we develop a …

Developmental origin and lineage plasticity of endogenous cardiac stem cells

MP Santini, E Forte, RP Harvey, JC Kovacic - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Over the past two decades, several populations of cardiac stem cells have been described
in the adult mammalian heart. For the most part, however, their lineage origins and in vivo …