title: Model systems for cardiovascular regenerative biology.
abstract: There is an urgent clinical need to develop new therapeutic approaches to treat heart failure, but the biology of cardiovascular regeneration is complex. Model systems are required to advance our understanding of biological mechanisms of cardiac regeneration as well as to test therapeutic approaches to regenerate tissue and restore cardiac function following injury. An ideal model system should be inexpensive, easily manipulated, easily reproducible, physiologically representative of human disease, and ethically sound. In this review, we discuss computational, cell-based, tissue, and animal models that have been used to elucidate mechanisms of cardiovascular regenerative biology or to test proposed therapeutic methods to restore cardiac function following disease or injury.
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Garbern
authors.forename: Christine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mummery
authors.forename: Richard T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000663:Amphibians; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012038:Regeneration / Q000502:physiology*; D012911:Snakes; D015027:Zebrafish
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