2022
Readily Available Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Luo J, Qin L, Park J, Kural MH, Huang Y, Shi X, Riaz M, Wang J, Ellis MW, Anderson CW, Yuan Y, Ren Y, Yoder MC, Tellides G, Niklason LE, Qyang Y. Readily Available Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Circulation Research 2022, 130: 925-927. PMID: 35189711, PMCID: PMC9113663, DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.121.320315.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVascular graftsAvailable tissueHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsInduced pluripotent stem cells
2021
Methods for Differentiating hiPSCs into Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Li ML, Luo J, Ellis MW, Riaz M, Ajaj Y, Qyang Y. Methods for Differentiating hiPSCs into Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Methods In Molecular Biology 2021, 2375: 21-34. PMID: 34591296, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1708-3_3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsVascular smooth muscle cellsPluripotent stem cellsLateral plate mesodermEarly embryonic developmentStem cellsSmooth muscle cellsHuman pluripotent stem cellsInduced pluripotent stem cellsExtracellular matrix proteinsMuscle cellsMesoderm lineagePlate mesodermEmbryonic developmentVascular cell sourceEmbryoid bodiesEB formationMatrix proteinsCellular interactionsDisease modelingPhysiological characteristicsVascular tissueTissue-engineered vascular graftsCell-based therapiesCell replacement
2020
Efficient Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Endothelial Cells under Xenogeneic-free Conditions for Vascular Tissue Engineering
Luo J, Shi X, Lin Y, Yuan Y, Kural MH, Wang J, Ellis MW, Anderson CW, Zhang SM, Riaz M, Niklason LE, Qyang Y. Efficient Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Endothelial Cells under Xenogeneic-free Conditions for Vascular Tissue Engineering. Acta Biomaterialia 2020, 119: 184-196. PMID: 33166710, PMCID: PMC8133308, DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.11.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVascular tissue engineeringTissue engineeringSmall-diameter TEVGsDynamic bioreactor systemShear stressBioreactor systemCell alignmentVascular graftsXenogeneic-free conditionsEngineeringEndothelializationTEVGsApplicationsEndothelial cellsConditionsHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsAnimal-derived reagents