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Generation of Aligned Functional Myocardial Tissue Through Microcontact Printing
JoVE Revista
Bioingeniería
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Generation of Aligned Functional Myocardial Tissue Through Microcontact Printing

Generation of Aligned Functional Myocardial Tissue Through Microcontact Printing

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11:09 min

March 19, 2013

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11:09 min
March 19, 2013

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The generation of aligned myocardial tissue is a key requirement for adapting the recent advances in stem cell biology to clinically useful purposes. Herein we describe a microcontact printing approach for the precise control of cell shape and function. Using highly purified populations of embryonic stem cell derived cardiac progenitors, we then generate anisotropic functional myocardial tissue.

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