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Designing a Bioreactor to Improve Data Acquisition and Model Throughput of Engineered Cardiac Tissues
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Chapters
- 00:00Introduction
- 00:43Bioreactor Fabrication: Casting of the PDMS Rack from the Aluminum Negative Masters
- 02:14Bioreactor Fabrication: PDMS Rack Removal from the Aluminum Negative Master Casts
- 03:28Bioreactor Fabrication: Stable Post Tracker (SPoT) Fabrication
- 05:39Human Engineered Cardiac Tissue (hECT) Fabrication
- 07:52Baseplate Removal
- 08:44Human Engineered Cardiac Tissue (hECT) Functional Characterization
- 10:27Results: Data Acquisition from the Bioreactor
- 11:53Conclusion
Three-dimensional cardiac tissues bioengineered using stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes have emerged as promising models for studying healthy and diseased human myocardium in vitro while recapitulating key aspects of the native cardiac niche. This manuscript describes a protocol for fabricating and analyzing high-content engineered cardiac tissues generated from human induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
