Electrospun Aligned Coaxial Nanofibrous Scaffold for Cardiac Repair.
Electrospun Aligned Coaxial Nanofibrous Scaffold for Cardiac Repair.
Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2193:129-140
Authors: Sridharan D, Palaniappan A, Blackstone BN, Powell HM, Khan M
Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide and a number one killer in the USA. Cell-based approaches to treat CVDs have only shown modest improvement due to poor survival, retention, and engraftment of the transplanted cells in the ischemic myocardium. Recently, tissue engineering and the use of 3D scaffolds for culturing and delivering stem cells for ischemic heart disease are gaining rapid potential. Here, we describe a protocol for the fabrication of aligned coaxial nanofibrous scaffold comprising of a polycaprolactone (PCL) core and gelatin shell. Furthermore, we describe a detailed protocol for the efficient seeding and maintenance of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) on these nanofibrous scaffolds, which could have a potential application in the generation of functional "cardiac patch" for myocardial repair applications as well as an in vitro 3D cardiac tissue model to evaluate the efficacy of cardiovascular drugs and cardiac toxicities.
PMID: 32808265 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Mol Biol Cell - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Sridharan D, Palaniappan A, Blackstone BN, Powell HM, Khan M Tags: Methods Mol Biol Source Type: research
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