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ArticleJournal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials2024

Investigations of cardiac fibrosis rheology by in vitro cardiac tissue modeling with 3D cellular spheroids.

Michele Zanetti, Nicoletta Braidotti, Maydha Khumar, Efren Montelongo, Raffaella Lombardi, Orfeo Sbaizero, Luisa Mestroni, Matthew R G Taylor, Gabriele Baj, Marco Lazzarino and 2 more

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Article in Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. CCR2Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026
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  3. Dressed in Collagen: 2D and 3D Cardiac Fibrosis Models.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Michele ZanettiConsiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina Dei Materiali (CNR-IOM), Area Science Park Basovizza, Strada Statale 14, Km 163,5, 34149, Trieste, Italy; Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Via A. Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy. Electronic address: michele.zanetti@yale.edu.
Nicoletta BraidottiConsiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina Dei Materiali (CNR-IOM), Area Science Park Basovizza, Strada Statale 14, Km 163,5, 34149, Trieste, Italy; Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Via A. Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy. Electronic address: nbraidotti@units.it.
Maydha KhumarBioengineering Department, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, At Bioscience 2 1270 E. Montview Avenue, Suite 100, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Efren MontelongoBioengineering Department, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, At Bioscience 2 1270 E. Montview Avenue, Suite 100, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Raffaella LombardiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States; Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Orfeo SbaizeroDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States; Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Via A. Valerio 6/A, 34127, Trieste, Italy.
Luisa MestroniDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States; Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Matthew R G TaylorDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Gabriele BajDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 5, 34127, Trieste, Italy.
Marco LazzarinoConsiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina Dei Materiali (CNR-IOM), Area Science Park Basovizza, Strada Statale 14, Km 163,5, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
Brisa PeñaBioengineering Department, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, At Bioscience 2 1270 E. Montview Avenue, Suite 100, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States; Cardiovascular Institute, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, At 12700 E.19th Avenue, Bldg. P15, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States.
Laura AndolfiConsiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina Dei Materiali (CNR-IOM), Area Science Park Basovizza, Strada Statale 14, Km 163,5, 34149, Trieste, Italy.

Funding

Engineering Cardiac spheroids to study LaminopathiesR01HL164634 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Luisa Mestroni, Matthew R Taylor · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
UC Denver MARC U*STAR Scholars Program SupplementT34GM096958 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI ALLEN, RICHARD M, FLORES, SONIA CASTRO · 2013 to 2022
$2.3M
Cardiomyocyte phenotype and mechanotransduction in Filamin C gene variants causing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathyR01HL147064 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI MESTRONI, LUISA, TAYLOR, MATTHEW R · 2020 to 2023
$2.1M
Mechanisms of Cardiac Injury Resolution by CX3CR1+ MacrophagesR01HL169578 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Ronald Joseph Vagnozzi · 2023 to 2026
$1.7M
MARC at the University of Colorado DenverT34GM149812 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI RICHARD M ALLEN, Sonia Castro Flores · 2023 to 2026
$1.1M
Injectable Carbon Nanotube-Functionalized Hydrogel for miRNA DeliveryK25HL148386 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI PENA CASTELLANOS, BRISA MARISOL · 2020 to 2024
$891k
Determining the role of tissue stiffness in the development of Alzheimer's disease pathologyR21AG080257 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI JOHNSON, NOAH RAY, PARK, DAE WON · 2023 to 2024
$407k
NHLBI NIH HHS K25 HL148386NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL147064NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL164634NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL169578NIA NIH HHS R21 AG080257NIGMS NIH HHS T34 GM096958NIGMS NIH HHS T34 GM149812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac fibrosis refers to the abnormal accumulation of extracellular matrix within the cardiac muscle, leading to increased stiffness and impaired heart function. From a rheological standpoint, knowledge about myocardial behavior is still lacking, partially due to a lack of appropriate techniques to investigate the rheology of in vitro cardiac tissue models. 3D multicellular cardiac spheroids are powerful and versatile platforms for modeling healthy and fibrotic cardiac tissue in vitro and studying how their mechanical properties are modulated. In this study, cardiac spheroids were created by co-culturing neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts in definite ratios using the hanging-drop method. The rheological characterization of such models was performed by Atomic Force Microscopy-based stress-relaxation measurements on the whole spheroid. After strain application, a viscoelastic bi-exponential relaxation was observed, characterized by a fast relaxation time (τ

Indexed as

FibrosisMyocytes, CardiacRheologySpheroids, CellularAnimalsFibroblastsModels, BiologicalMyocardiumRatsRats, Wistar3D cellular modelAFMCardiac fibrosisCardiac spheroidsRheological behaviorStress relaxation

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PMID38744118
PMCPMC12049085

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