• 文献标题:   Engineering a conduction-consistent cardiac patch with graphene oxide modified butterfly wings and human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   TAN Y, LU TT, CHEN Y, WITMAN N, YAN BQ, YANG L, LIU ML, GONG YQ, AI XF, LUO RJ, WANG HJ, WANG W, FU W
  • 作者关键词:   cardiomyocyte maturation, conduction consistent, induced pluripotent stem cell, morpho butterflie, oxidized graphene
  • 出版物名称:   BIOENGINEERING TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/btm2.10522 EA APR 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Engineering a conduction-consistent cardiac patch has direct implications to biomedical research. However, there is difficulty in obtaining and maintaining a system that allows researchers to study physiologically relevant cardiac development, maturation, and drug screening due to the issues around inconsistent contractions of cardiomyocytes. Butterfly wings have special nanostructures arranged in parallel, which could help generate the alignment of cardiomyocytes to better mimic the natural heart tissue structure. Here, we construct a conduction-consistent human cardiac muscle patch by assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) on graphene oxide (GO) modified butterfly wings. We also show this system functions as a versatile model to study human cardiomyogenesis by assembling human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac progenitor cells (hiPSC-CPCs) on the GO modified butterfly wings. The GO modified butterfly wing platform facilitated the parallel orientation of hiPSC-CMs, enhanced relative maturation as well as improved conduction consistency of the cardiomyocytes. In addition, GO modified butterfly wings enhanced the proliferation and maturation characteristics of the hiPSC-CPCs. In accordance with data obtained from RNA-sequencing and gene signatures, assembling hiPSC-CPCs on GO modified butterfly wings stimulated the differentiation of the progenitors into relatively mature hiPSC-CMs. These characteristics and capabilities of GO modified butterfly wings make them an ideal platform for heart research and drug screening.