title: Engineered cardiac tissues.
abstract: Cardiac tissue engineering offers the promise of creating functional tissue replacements for use in the failing heart or for in vitro drug screening. The last decade has seen a great deal of progress in this field with new advances in interdisciplinary areas such as developmental biology, genetic engineering, biomaterials, polymer science, bioreactor engineering, and stem cell biology. We review here a selection of the most recent advances in cardiac tissue engineering, including the classical cell-scaffold approaches, advanced bioreactor designs, cell sheet engineering, whole organ decellularization, stem cell-based approaches, and topographical control of tissue organization and function. We also discuss current challenges in the field, such as maturation of stem cell-derived cardiac patches and vascularization.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, 164 College St., Rosebrugh Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G9.
authors.forename: Rohin K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: Loraine L Y
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Lewis A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: Milica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radisic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology*; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000166:cytology; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D023822:Tissue Engineering