Recent advances in cardiac tissue engineering for the management of myocardium infarction

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A2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Cells, Volume 10, issue 10

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Myocardium Infarction (MI) is one of the foremost cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) causing death worldwide, and its case numbers are expected to continuously increase in the coming years. Pharmacological interventions have not been at the forefront in ameliorating MI-related morbidity and mortality. Stem cell-based tissue engineering approaches have been extensively explored for their regenerative potential in the infarcted myocardium. Recent studies on microfluidic devices employing stem cells under laboratory set-up have revealed meticulous events pertaining to the pathophysiology of MI occurring at the infarcted site. This discovery also underpins the appropriate conditions in the niche for differentiating stem cells into mature cardiomyocyte-like cells and leads to engineering of the scaffold via mimicking of native cardiac physiological conditions. However, the mode of stem cell-loaded engineered scaffolds delivered to the site of infarction is still a challenging mission, and yet to be translated to the clinical setting. In this review, we have elucidated the various strategies developed using a hydrogel-based system both as encapsulated stem cells and as biocompatible patches loaded with cells and applied at the site of infarction.

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Funding Information: The authors sincerely acknowledge the research fund support from ADEK award for Research Excellence (AARE18-194). The authors also acknowledge the research grant (21R075) from Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Center for Health Sciences (ZCHS), UAE University, UAE. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Sharma, V, Dash, S K, Govarthanan, K, Gahtori, R, Negi, N, Barani, M, Tomar, R, Chakraborty, S, Mathapati, S, Bishi, D K, Negi, P, Dua, K, Singh, S K, Gundamaraju, R, Dey, A, Ruokolainen, J, Thakur, V K, Kesari, K K, Jha, N K, Gupta, P K & Ojha, S 2021, 'Recent advances in cardiac tissue engineering for the management of myocardium infarction', Cells, vol. 10, no. 10, 2538. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10102538