Controlling the contractile strength of engineered cardiac muscle by hierarchal tissue architecture
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Controlling the contractile strength of engineered cardiac muscle by hierarchal tissue architecture.
The heart is a muscular organ with a wrapping, laminar structure embedded with neural and vascular networks, collagen fibrils, fibroblasts, and cardiac myocytes that facilitate contraction. We hypothesized that these non-muscle components may have functional benefit, serving as important structural alignment cues in inter- and intra-cellular organization of cardiac myocytes. Previous studies ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomaterials
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0142-9612
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.04.043