Tissue-engineered 3-dimensional (3D) microenvironment enhances the direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes by microRNAs

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Yanzhen ^a   Dal Pra, Sophie ^b   Mirotsou, Maria ^b   Jayawardena, Tilanthi M ^b   Hodgkinson, Conrad P ^b   Bursac, Nenad ^a   Dzau, Victor J ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HYDROGEL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGELS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 85005951010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep38815     Document Type: Article

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