Ogle Brenda M, Bursac Nenad, Domian Ibrahim, Huang Ngan F, Menasché Philippe, Murry Charles E, Pruitt Beth, Radisic Milica, Wu Joseph C, Wu Sean M, Zhang Jianyi, Zimmermann Wolfram-Hubertus, Vunjak-Novakovic Gordana
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stem Cell Institute, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jun 8;8(342):342ps13. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad2304.
The promise of cardiac tissue engineering is in the ability to recapitulate in vitro the functional aspects of a healthy heart and disease pathology as well as to design replacement muscle for clinical therapy. Parts of this promise have been realized; others have not. In a meeting of scientists in this field, five central challenges or "big questions" were articulated that, if addressed, could substantially advance the current state of the art in modeling heart disease and realizing heart repair.
心脏组织工程的前景在于能够在体外重现健康心脏的功能方面和疾病病理学,以及设计用于临床治疗的替代肌肉。这一前景的部分内容已经实现;其他部分尚未实现。在该领域科学家的一次会议上,明确提出了五个核心挑战或“重大问题”,如果能够解决这些问题,将极大地推动目前在心脏病建模和心脏修复方面的技术水平。