
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 171, P. 103612 - 103612
Published: April 29, 2025
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide-claiming one-third all deaths every year. Current two-dimensional in vitro cell culture systems and animal models cannot completely recapitulate clinical complexity these humans. Therefore, there is a dire need for higher fidelity biological capable replicating phenotypes to inform outcomes therapeutic development. Cardiac tissue engineering (CTE) strategies have emerged fulfill this by design three-dimensional myocardial from human pluripotent stem cells. In way, CTE serve as highly controllable variety applications-including physiological pathological modeling, drug discovery preclinical testing platforms, even direct interventions clinic. Although significant progress has been made development technologies, critical challenges necessary refinements are required derive more advanced heart technologies. review, we distill three focus areas field address: I) Generating cardiac muscle types scalable manufacturing methods, II) Engineering structure, function, analyses, III) Curating system specific application. each our areas, emphasize importance designing mimicking intricate intercellular connectivity discuss fundamental considerations that subsequently arise. We conclude highlighting cutting-edge applications use technologies modeling repair damaged diseased hearts.
Language: Английский