Tissue-Engineered Vascular Rings from Human iPSC-Derived Smooth Muscle Cells
Dash BC, Levi K, Schwan J, Luo J, Bartulos O, Wu H, Qiu C, Yi T, Ren Y, Campbell S, Rolle MW, Qyang Y. Tissue-Engineered Vascular Rings from Human iPSC-Derived Smooth Muscle Cells. Stem Cell Reports 2016, 7: 19-28. PMID: 27411102, PMCID: PMC4945325, DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.05.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVascular tissue engineeringFunctional vascular smooth muscle cellsCell-based tissueSelf-assembly approachRenewable sourcesTissue engineeringPluripotent stem cellsPlatform technologyBiomedical applicationsTissue ringsDrug screeningDisease modelingTissue model systemsHuman iPSCStem cellsBroad utilityEfficient approachLarge quantitiesEngineeringMaterials