Crossing Into the Next Frontier of Cardiac Extracellular Matrix Research

Francis G Spinale¹, Nikolaos G Frangogiannis¹, Boris Hinz¹+3

• ¹From the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing, Columbia (F.G.S.); Cardiovascular Translational Research Center (F.G.S.) and Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy (F.G.S.), University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia; WJB Dorn Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Columbia, SC (F.G.S.); Department of Medicine (Cardiology), The Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (N.G.F.); Laboratory of Tissue Repair and Regeneration, Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (B.H.); Departments of Biomedical Engineering (J.W.H.) and Medicine (J.W.H.), Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Centre, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Z.K.); Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mississippi Center for Heart Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (M.L.L.); and Research Service, G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jackson, MS (M.L.L.).+1