title: Generation of aligned functional myocardial tissue through microcontact printing.
abstract: Advanced heart failure represents a major unmet clinical challenge, arising from the loss of viable and/or fully functional cardiac muscle cells. Despite optimum drug therapy, heart failure represents a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the developed world. A major challenge in drug development is the identification of cellular assays that accurately recapitulate normal and diseased human myocardial physiology in vitro. Likewise, the major challenges in regenerative cardiac biology revolve around the identification and isolation of patient-specific cardiac progenitors in clinically relevant quantities. These cells have to then be assembled into functional tissue that resembles the native heart tissue architecture. Microcontact printing allows for the creation of precise micropatterned protein shapes that resemble structural organization of the heart, thus providing geometric cues to control cell adhesion spatially. Herein we describe our approach for the isolation of highly purified myocardial cells from pluripotent stem cells differentiating in vitro, the generation of cell growth surfaces micropatterned with extracellular matrix proteins, and the assembly of the stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells into anisotropic myocardial tissue.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atmanli
authors.forename: Ibrahim J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Domian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D048708:Cell Growth Processes; D002469:Cell Separation / Q000379:methods; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009206:Myocardium / Q000166:cytology*; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D011327:Printing / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins
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