Abstract
In the relatively young field of cardiac tissue engineering, different biomaterials, methods and techniques have been tested for cardiac repair. In this study we examined the validity of a series of new preformed membrane scaffolds, based on collagen type I, for the transplantation of cardiac cells. One type of membrane, cross-linked with 1, 4-butanediol diglycidyl ether (BDDGE) and fibronectin-enriched, gave rise to spontaneously beating heart cell constructs 5-9 days after seeding with neonatal rat cardiac cells. This membrane was then grafted, with and without beating cardiac cells, onto the infarcted area of rat models of heart failure. Seriate echocardiography, performed on rats before transplantation and at 4 and 8 weeks after transplantation, showed that rats that received collagen membranes with beating cells showed an improvement in cardiac function after 8 weeks. These results suggest that this new type of collagen membrane can be used as vector for the transplantation of beating heart cells to the injured myocardium, hence representing an important potential tool for cardiac tissue repair technologies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | ASME 2010 5th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference and Exhibition, BIOMED 2010 |
Pages | 95-98 |
Number of pages | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2010 |
Event | ASME 2010 5th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference and Exhibition, BIOMED 2010 - Newport Beach, CA, United States Duration: Sep 20 2010 → Sep 21 2010 |
Other
Other | ASME 2010 5th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference and Exhibition, BIOMED 2010 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Newport Beach, CA |
Period | 9/20/10 → 9/21/10 |
Keywords
- Biocompatibility
- Cardiac tissue engineering
- Collagen
- Scaffold
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering