Scalable units for building cardiac tissue.

Ye, Xiaofeng; Lu, Liang; Kolewe, Martin E; Hearon, Keith; Fischer, Kristin M; Coppeta, Jonathan; Freed, Lisa E · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Scalable units for building cardiac tissue are fabricated from biodegradable elastomeric polymers by pairwise stacking of heart-cell scaffolds with sinusoidal internal pore architectures and dedicated perfusable microvessels with rapidly degrading porous interfaces in a parallel flow configuration. This platform supports viable heart cells in vitro and, if validated in vivo, may aid in the regenerative repair of vascularized tissues.

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