从人类多能干细胞中小型化工程心脏组织中高精度力读取的圆柱设计
Milica Dostanić1, Maury Wiendels1, Laura M Windt1
1Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333 ZC, The Netherlands.
Advanced healthcare materials
|August 30, 2025
概括
新型的形支柱增强了工程心脏组织 (EHT) 设备,以更准确地测量肌细胞收缩力. 这项创新减少了药物反应和使用人类诱导多能干细胞衍生心脏细胞的疾病建模的灵敏性.
科学领域:
- 生物医学工程
- 心血管研究
- 干细胞技术
背景情况:
- 使用人类诱导的多能干细胞 (hiPSC) 模拟心脏生理和药物反应的工程心脏组织 (EHT).
- 在柔性支柱上的组织定位的变化导致EHT中的收缩力测量不一致.
研究的目的:
- 引入新型的形柱子,用于EHT器件中的组织空间限制.
- 提高EHT中的收缩力测量的精度,灵敏度和可重复性.
主要方法:
- 使用聚甲基 (PDMS) 模成微加工的孔制造EHT装置.
- 对于最佳的机械环境和长期EHT培养,研究形柱设计和刚度.
- 组织封闭效率的量化和与柱体几何和度的相关性.
主要成果:
- 形柱实现了90%以上的封闭效率,明显优于直柱 (30%).
- 组织的封闭主要取决于柱子的几何形状,而不是硬度.
- 优化的形柱子提高了力读数的精度,并使药物/疾病效应的敏感检测成为可能.
结论:
- 形柱子有效地将组织限制在EHT装置中,减少变异性并提高测量准确性.
- 这项技术增强了hiPSC衍生的EHT在体外心脏研究和药物查中的实用性.
- 经过优化后的 EHT 装置提供了一个更灵敏的研究心脏收缩的平台.
相关概念视频
Anatomy of the Heart
The human heart is made up of three layers of tissue that are surrounded by the pericardium, a membrane that protects and confines the heart. The outermost layer, closest to the pericardium, is the epicardium. The pericardial cavity separates the pericardium from the epicardium. Beneath the epicardium is the myocardium, the middle layer, and the endocardium, the innermost layer. There are four chambers of the heart: the right atrium, the right ventricle, the left atrium, and the left ventricle.
Structure of Cardiac Muscles
Cardiac muscle, or myocardium, is a specialized type of muscle found exclusively in the heart. Its unique structural and functional characteristics enable the heart to perform its vital role of pumping blood throughout the body continuously and rhythmically. The cardiac muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, possess an endomysium and perimysium but do not have an epimysium.
Compared to skeletal muscles, cardiac muscle cells are small and mostly have a single nucleus. Additionally, they are usually...
Compared to skeletal muscles, cardiac muscle cells are small and mostly have a single nucleus. Additionally, they are usually...
Specialized Characteristics of Cardiac Muscles
The primary role of cardiac muscles is to propel blood throughout the cardiovascular system. The cardiac muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, exhibit specialized characteristics that allow them to perform this function.
Cardiac muscle cells are smaller than skeletal muscles, averaging 10–20 mm in diameter and 50–100 mm in length. However, they have large energy demands for continuous contraction and relaxation. This energy is almost exclusively derived from aerobic metabolism of energy reserves in...
Cardiac muscle cells are smaller than skeletal muscles, averaging 10–20 mm in diameter and 50–100 mm in length. However, they have large energy demands for continuous contraction and relaxation. This energy is almost exclusively derived from aerobic metabolism of energy reserves in...
Chambers of the Heart
The human heart is a complex organ made up of four chambers: the right and left atria and the right and left ventricles. These internal chambers are separated by partitions known as the interatrial and interventricular septa. The exterior of the heart features a groove known as the coronary sulcus that demarcates the atria from the ventricles, while the anterior and posterior interventricular sulci distinguish between the two ventricles.
Deoxygenated blood from the body is received in the right...
Deoxygenated blood from the body is received in the right...
Development of the Heart
The development of the human heart, a crucial organ, commences from the mesoderm on the 18th or 19th day after fertilization. This process initiates in the cardiogenic area, a group of mesodermal cells at the embryo's head end, which evolves into elongated strands known as cardiogenic cords. These cords undergo a transformation to form hollow-centered endocardial tubes.
As the embryo undergoes lateral folding, these paired tubes approach each other, merging into a single primitive heart tube by...
As the embryo undergoes lateral folding, these paired tubes approach each other, merging into a single primitive heart tube by...


