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Biomatrices for Heart Regeneration and Cardiac Tissue Modelling In Vitro

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Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 10

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Abstract

Cardiac muscle is the hardest working muscle in the body, pumping approximately 70 g of blood with every heartbeat, circulating 9500 l of blood daily and contracting over 3 billion times during the average human’s life. Heart failure – a heterogeneous syndrome – is a major and increasing health care problem worldwide and a leading cause of hospitalization and morbidity in elderly. Adequate heart tissue regeneration in human is lacking. Challenges to engineer heart tissue and employ it in vitro or in regenerative medicine remain to be solved. First of all, cardiac tissue bioengineering requires robust and powerful cells capable of differentiating into cardiomyogenic lineages in combination with effective, safe and highly specialized biomaterials, hydrogels and/or scaffolds for recreating the native extracellular microenvironment. Advances in stem cell and biomaterial science already provided an increasing array of cell resources, their cultivation technologies and biomatrices for efficient and safe cardiac tissue reconstruction. In order to develop new cardiac tissue mimicking technologies in vitro, it is necessary to analyze the advantages and drawbacks of already established biosystems. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of recently employed cells, 2D and 3D biomatrices for cardiac tissue engineering and review the current state-of-the-art in this field as well as future directions.

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Abbreviations

ADSC:

adipose tissue-derived stem cells

AuNRs:

albumin electrospun fibers and gold nanorods

BMP4:

bone morphogenetic protein 4

CDC:

cardiosphere-derived cells

CM:

cardiomyocytes

CNT:

carbon nanotubes

CPCs:

cardiac progenitor cells

CPS:

cardio progenitor spheres

CVD:

cardiovascular diseases

EBs:

embryonic bodies

ECM:

extracellular matrix

ESCs:

embryonic stem cells

GAG:

glycosaminoglycan

G-CSF:

granulocyte colony-stimulating factor

GSK3:

glycogen synthase kinase 3

HF:

heart failure

hFFs:

human foreskin fibroblasts

HGF:

hepatocyte growth factor

IC:

intracoronary infusion

IGF-1:

insulin-like growth factor

IM:

intramyocardially

iPSC:

induced pluripotent stem cells

LVEF:

left ventricular ejection fraction

MEF:

mouse embryonic fibroblast

MRI:

magnetic resonance imaging

MSC:

mesenchymal stem/stromal cells

Nrg:

Neuregulin-1

PCL:

polyɛ-caprolactone

PCL:

poly-ε-caprolactone

PDGFRα:

platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha

PFHy:

polyethylene glycol-fibrinogen hydrogel

PGA:

poly(glycolic acid) or poly-glycolide

pHLIP:

pH low insertion peptide

PIPAAm:

poly N-isopropylacrylamide

PLA:

poly-lactic acid

PSC:

pluripotent stem cells

RCVI:

retrograde coronary venous infusion

Sca − 1:

stem cell antigen-1

SDF-1:

stromal-derived growth factor 1

TESI:

transendocardial injection

TGF-β:

transforming growth factor β

VEGF:

vascular endothelial growth factor

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This work was supported by the project: Studies of the regenerative potential and mechanoptosis of the human heart primary cardiospheres, (No. S-MIP-17-13).

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Kulvinskiene, I., Aldonyte, R., Miksiunas, R., Mobasheri, A., Bironaite, D. (2020). Biomatrices for Heart Regeneration and Cardiac Tissue Modelling In Vitro. In: Turksen, K. (eds) Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 10. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 1298. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2020_564

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