Vascular endothelial growth factor secretion by nonmyocytes modulates connexin-43 levels in cardiac organoids

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 1771-1783

  Iyer, Rohin K ^a   Odedra, Devang ^b   Chiu, Loraine L Y ^b   Vunjak Novakovic, Gordana ^c   Radisic, Milica ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; PROTEINS;

CARDIAC FUNCTIONS; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CELL TYPES; CONNEXIN-43; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; LOW LEVEL; ORGANOIDS; PRECULTURE; RAPID SCREENING; SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VEGFR-2;

HEART;

CONNEXIN 43; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SECRETION (PROCESS); UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; LIGANDS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ORGANOIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84866978373     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0468     Document Type: Article

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