Advances in Cardiac Tissue Engineering
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Regenerative Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 6424
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stem cell niche, tissue engineering, electrospinning, cell-material interactions
Interests: cardiovascular tissue engineering; mechanisms of atherogenesis; cell adhesion; cell biomechanics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: engineered heart tissue; myocardial infarction; cardiac patch; injectable biomaterials; pluripotent stem cells; heart failure; cardiomyopathy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances have led to exciting developments in cardiac tissue engineering, ranging from stem cell-derived constructs to new clinical treatments to 3D bioprinting vasculature. In particular, biomaterial, cellular, and hybrid composites have made strides in the field and can be used for enhanced drug screening, better disease modeling, and clinically relevant regenerative medicine. The exciting multidisciplinary field of cardiac tissue engineering includes biology, electrophysiology, biomaterials and materials science, and bioengineering. Efforts have been made to recapitulate the complex cardiac microenvironment using functional biomaterials. The unique microenvironment includes complex and combinatorial physiological, mechanical and biochemical cues. The physical properties and architecture of cardiac tissue influence both function and differentiation. Functional engineered cardiac tissue has the potential to improve our understanding and approach to cardiology and cardiac disorders.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present the state-of-the-art progress on such advances in cardiac tissue engineering and their scientific and clinical applications. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, methods, mini-reviews, and perspectives including (but not limited to) the following topics: 3D bioprinting cardiac tissue, tissue biomanufacturing to create functional cardiac tissue, advanced biomaterials systems to model cardiac tissues, and stem cell-based approaches.
Dr. Jessica Gluck
Prof. Dr. George Truskey
Prof. Dr. Ning Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiac tissue engineering
- cardiac regeneration
- 3D bioprinting
- cardiovascular disease modeling
- cardiac drug screening
- cardiac patch constructs
- in vitro cardiac culture systems
- cardiac cell therapies
- electrophysiology
