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Title

In Vitro Models of Cardiovascular Disease: Embryoid Bodies, Organoids and Everything in Between.

Authors

Stougiannou, Theodora M.; Christodoulou, Konstantinos C.; Karangelis, Dimos

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease comprises a group of disorders affecting or originating within tissues and organs of the cardiovascular system; most, if not all, will eventually result in cardiomyocyte dysfunction or death, negatively impacting cardiac function. Effective models of cardiac disease are thus important for understanding crucial aspects of disease progression, while recent advancements in stem cell biology have allowed for the use of stem cell populations to derive such models. These include three-dimensional (3D) models such as stem cell-based models of embryos (SCME) as well as organoids, many of which are frequently derived from embryoid bodies (EB). Not only can they recapitulate 3D form and function, but the developmental programs governing the self-organization of cell populations into more complex tissues as well. Many different organoids and SCME constructs have been generated in recent years to recreate cardiac tissue and the complex developmental programs that give rise to its cellular composition and unique tissue morphology. It is thus the purpose of this narrative literature review to describe and summarize many of the recently derived cardiac organoid models as well as their use for the recapitulation of genetic and acquired disease. Owing to the cellular composition of the models examined, this review will focus on disease and tissue injury associated with embryonic/fetal tissues.

Subjects

PLURIPOTENT stem cells; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL programs; FETAL tissues; CELL populations

Publication

Biomedicines, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 12, p2714

ISSN

2227-9059

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.3390/biomedicines12122714

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