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Isolation of Leukocytes from the Murine Tissues at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
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2015
Described herein is a protocol to isolate and analyze the infiltrating leukocytes of tissues at the maternal-fetal interface (uterus, decidua, and placenta) of mice. This protocol maintains the integrity of most cell surface markers and yields enough viable cells for downstream applications including flow cytometry analysis.
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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
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2013
Fetal and perinatal death is a common feature when studying genetic alterations affecting cardiac development. High-frequency ultrasound imaging has improved 2-D resolution and can provide excellent information on early cardiac development and is an ideal method to detect the impact on cardiac structure and function prior to death.
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Implantation of Engineered Tissue in the Rat Heart
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2009
Here, we describe a cardiac surgical procedure to implant engineered tissue in the atrioventricular (AV)-groove of an adult Lewis rat.
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Generation of Neural Stem Cells from Discarded Human Fetal Cortical Tissue
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2011
A simple and reliable method on isolation and culture of neural stem cells from discarded human fetal cortical tissue is described. Cultures derived from known human neurological disorders can be used for characterization of pathological cellular and molecular processes, as well as provide a platform to assess pharmacological efficacy.
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A Pipeline to Characterize Structural Heart Defects in the Fetal Mouse
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2022
This article details murine congenital heart disease (CHD) diagnostic methods using fetal echocardiography, necropsy, and Episcopic fluorescence image capture (EFIC) using Episcopic confocal microscopy (ECM) followed by three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction.
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Cardiomyocyte differentiation supplies cells with increasingly specialized cardiac roles, while tissue architecture organizes those cells into functional arrangements. These processes develop together rather than independently: cellular specialization depends on how cells are positioned, and the resulting organization supports emerging cardiac activity. Studying their coordination helps bioengineers model developmental progression more realistically in engineered cardiac tissues and organoid systems.
Electrical and mechanical signals provide developmental cues that influence how cardiac cells organize and mature. Electrical activity relates to coordinated cardiac behavior, whereas mechanical signaling reflects how cells respond to forces within developing tissue. Examining both types of signaling helps researchers evaluate whether engineered systems reproduce relevant developmental conditions and how cells respond to those conditions.
Fetal heart tissue offers developmental information that can guide the organization and maturation of engineered cardiac constructs. Researchers can use its cellular behavior, tissue architecture, and signaling environment as reference points when designing systems intended to model cardiac development. This connection helps bioengineering approaches move beyond isolated cells toward models that better represent coordinated tissue function.
Researchers use fetal heart tissue as a developmental model to examine how cardiac structures and functions emerge before birth. Because the tissue reflects coordinated changes in cardiomyocytes, architecture, and signaling, it can help investigate developmental processes associated with congenital heart disease. The resulting insights support disease modeling by connecting abnormal outcomes with earlier stages of cardiac development.
Experiments can show how cardiac cells respond when developmental cues affect differentiation, organization, electrical behavior, or mechanical interactions. This information helps distinguish which signals support maturation and which aspects of tissue structure are important for coordinated function. In bioengineering, those observations can be used to assess whether a model reproduces meaningful features of developing cardiac tissue.
Findings from fetal heart tissue provide developmental context for building organoid systems and selecting or designing biomaterials that support cardiac organization and maturation. They also contribute to strategies for cardiac repair and regenerative medicine by identifying cellular and tissue behaviors that engineered approaches may need to reproduce. The broader goal is to improve models and interventions through developmentally informed design.