Growth of engineered human myocardium with mechanical loading and vascular coculture
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Growth of engineered human myocardium with mechanical loading and vascular coculture
Abstract
Rationale: The developing heart requires both mechanical load and vascularization to reach its proper size, yet the regulation of human heart growth by these processes is poorly understood.
Objective: We seek to elucidate the responses of immature human myocardium to mechanical load and vascularization using tissue engineering approaches.
Methods and results: Using human embryonic stem cell and human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in a 3-dimensional collagen matrix, we show that uniaxial mechanical stress conditioning promotes 2-fold increases in cardiomyocyte and matrix fiber alignment and enhances myofibrillogenesis and sarcomeric banding. Furthermore, cyclic stress conditioning markedly increases cardiomyocyte hypertrophy (2.2-fold) and proliferation rates (21%) versus unconditioned constructs. Addition of endothelial cells enhances cardiomyocyte proliferation under all stress conditions (14% to 19%), and addition of stromal supporting cells enhances formation of vessel-like structures by ≈10-fold. Furthermore, these optimized human cardiac tissue constructs generate Starling curves, increasing their active force in response to increased resting length. When transplanted onto hearts of athymic rats, the human myocardium survives and forms grafts closely apposed to host myocardium. The grafts contain human microvessels that are perfused by the host coronary circulation.
Conclusions: Our results indicate that both mechanical load and vascular cell coculture control cardiomyocyte proliferation, and that mechanical load further controls the hypertrophy and architecture of engineered human myocardium. Such constructs may be useful for studying human cardiac development as well as for regenerative therapy.
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Comment in
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The beat goes on: human heart muscle from pluripotent stem cells.Circ Res. 2011 Jun 24;109(1):2-4. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.111.248039. Circ Res. 2011. PMID: 21700948 No abstract available.
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