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Fabrication of 3D Cardiac Microtissue Arrays using Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes, Cardiac Fibroblasts, and Endothelial Cells
Published on: March 14, 2021
Scalable units for building cardiac tissue
Xiaofeng Ye1, Liang Lu, Martin E Kolewe
1Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Abstract:
Scalable units for building cardiac tissue are fabricated from biodegradable elastomeric polymers by pairwise stacking of heart-cell scaffolds with sinusoidal internal pore architectures and dedicated perfusable microvessels with rapidly degrading porous interfaces in a parallel flow configuration. This platform supports viable heart cells in vitro and, if validated in vivo, may aid in the regenerative repair of vascularized tissues.

