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ArticleCommunications biology2021

Isochoric supercooled preservation and revival of human cardiac microtissues.

Matthew J Powell-Palm, Verena Charwat, Berenice Charrez, Brian Siemons, Kevin E Healy, Boris Rubinsky

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Article in Communications biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Thermodynamic Principles of Emerging Cryopreservation Technologies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  8. Anti-Icing Organogel Enables Quasi-Homogeneous Supercooling Preservation of Mouse Hearts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  15. Advances in cardiac tissue engineering and heart-on-a-chip.Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A · 2024
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  16. Prototype isochoric preservation device for large organs.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  17. Zebrafish as a high throughput model for organ preservation and transplantation research.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2023
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  18. Isochoric Supercooling Organ Preservation System.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Matthew J Powell-Palm *Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. mpowellp@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5117-8296
Verena Charwat *Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2222-3702
Berenice Charrez *Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Brian SiemonsDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Kevin E HealyDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. kehealy@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8524-3671
Boris RubinskyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. rubinsky@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2794-1543

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low-temperature biopreservation and 3D tissue engineering present two differing routes towards eventual on-demand access to transplantable biologics, but recent advances in both fields present critical new opportunities for crossover between them. In this work, we demonstrate sub-zero centigrade preservation and revival of autonomously beating three-dimensional human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiac microtissues via isochoric supercooling, without the use of chemical cryoprotectants. We show that these tissues can cease autonomous beating during preservation and resume it after warming, that the supercooling process does not affect sarcomere structural integrity, and that the tissues maintain responsiveness to drug exposure following revival. Our work suggests both that functional three dimensional (3D) engineered tissues may provide an excellent high-content, low-risk testbed to study complex tissue biopreservation in a genetically human context, and that isochoric supercooling may provide a robust method for preserving and reviving engineered tissues themselves.

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Cold TemperatureHeartHumansTissue Preservation

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PMID34552201
PMCPMC8458396

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