Self-organizing human cardiac microchambers mediated by geometric confinement

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ma, Zhen ^a,b,c   Wang, Jason ^a   Loskill, Peter ^a,b,c   Huebsch, Nathaniel ^d,e   Koo, Sangmo ^f   Svedlund, Felicia L ^c   Marks, Natalie C ^a   Hua, Ethan W ^d   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^f   Conklin, Bruce R ^d,e   Healy, Kevin E ^a,b,c  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^d GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; THALIDOMIDE; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN; CADHERIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CARDIOLOGY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL CUE; GEOMETRY; MICROMECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRESS; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MYOFIBROBLAST; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; HEART; IN VITRO STUDY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

BODY PATTERNING; CADHERINS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CUES; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEART; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBROBLASTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84937127272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8413     Document Type: Article

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