Transmural myocardial repair with engineered heart muscle in a rat model of heterotopic heart transplantation – A proof-of-concept study
Engineered heart muscle (EHM) can be implanted epicardially to remuscularize the failing heart. In case of a severely scarred ventricle, excision of scar followed by transmural heart wall replacement may be a more desirable application. Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that allograft (rat) and xenograft (human) EHM can also be administered as transmural heart wall replacement in a heterotopic, volume-loaded heart transplantation model. We first established a novel rat model model to test surgical transmural left heart wall repair.
Source: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology - Category: Cytology Authors: Ahmad-Fawad Jebran, Malte Tiburcy, Daniel Biermann, Paul Balfanz, Michael Didi é, Bijoy Chandapillai Karikkineth, Friedrich Schöndube, Ingo Kutschka, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann Source Type: research
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