ArticleNature biotechnology2023
Epicardioid single-cell genomics uncovers principles of human epicardium biology in heart development and disease.
Article in Nature biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.
- An AI-integrated organoid platform enables high-throughput functional evaluation of bioactive metal ions.Bioactive materials · 2026Article
- Retinoic acid in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Cardiac Organoids for Modeling Congenital Heart Disease: From Genetic Discovery to Therapeutic Screening.Current cardiology reports · 2026Review
- Cardiac microphysiological systems in cardiovascular research: Construction paradigms, maturation trajectories, and translational frontiers.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Review
- CellRank: consistent and data view agnostic fate mapping for single-cell genomics.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Signaling mechanisms and dynamics governing the myocardial-epicardial fate switch during human cardiogenesis.Science advances · 2026Article
- Article
- Self-assembled chamber-like cardiac organoids for modeling cardiac chamber formation and cardiotoxicity assessment.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Review
- Epicardial extracellular vesicles modulate gene expression following ischemia-reperfusion injury in heart-on-a-chip.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Organ-Specific and Conserved Regulatory Logic Orchestrates Gene Expression in the Embryonic Mesothelium.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Advanced in vitro cardiac models for drug evaluation: integration of organoids, engineered tissues, and microphysiological systems.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Review
- PPP2R3A-RGS19 interaction links Wnt/β-catenin signaling to pathological cardiomyocyte apoptosis in heart failure.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- Single-cell omics uncovers novel pathological mechanisms and therapeutic targets for congenital heart diseases: insights from integrated intercellular communication analysis.Stem cell research & therapy · 2026Review
- From chemically defined hiPSCs to self-organizing cardiac organoids: current strategies guided by developmental signaling.Stem cell research & therapy · 2026Review
- Vascularized Cardiac Tissue Engineering: From Advances in Biofabrication to Translational Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Modeling embryonic heart vascular plexus development and sympathetic innervation on a human heart organoid.iScience · 2026Article
- Current Trends in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research and Therapy: 3D Cardiac Modelling.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2026Review
- Epicardial cell activation as a paradigm shift in cardiac repair and regeneration.Stem cells translational medicine · 2026Review
- Integrative Proteomics of Extracellular Vesicles from hiPSC-Derived Cardiac Organoids Reveals Heart Tissue-like Molecular Representativity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
20 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The epicardium, the mesothelial envelope of the vertebrate heart, is the source of multiple cardiac cell lineages during embryonic development and provides signals that are essential to myocardial growth and repair. Here we generate self-organizing human pluripotent stem cell-derived epicardioids that display retinoic acid-dependent morphological, molecular and functional patterning of the epicardium and myocardium typical of the left ventricular wall. By combining lineage tracing, single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling, we describe the specification and differentiation process of different cell lineages in epicardioids and draw comparisons to human fetal development at the transcriptional and morphological levels. We then use epicardioids to investigate the functional cross-talk between cardiac cell types, gaining new insights into the role of IGF2/IGF1R and NRP2 signaling in human cardiogenesis. Finally, we show that epicardioids mimic the multicellular pathogenesis of congenital or stress-induced hypertrophy and fibrotic remodeling. As such, epicardioids offer a unique testing ground of epicardial activity in heart development, disease and regeneration.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.