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ReviewiScience2025

Integrative approaches in cardiac tissue engineering: Bridging cellular complexity to create accurate physiological models.

Dilip Thomas, Joseph C Wu

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Review in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Human cardiovascular organoids: Biomedical applications and ethical challenges.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dilip ThomasStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Joseph C WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent innovations in cardiac tissue engineering (TE) have yet to fully harness integrative genomic mapping of cellular niches to replicate the spatially organized cellular communities and extracellular matrix (ECM) microniches of the heart. Bridging this gap will allow the development of robust platforms for cardiac regeneration and disease modeling. Recapitulating this complexity, including hierarchical vascularization, functional innervation, and immune integration, remains a fundamental challenge in precision cardiac tissue engineering. While iPSC-derived models, engineered biomaterials, and multi-scale 3D bioprinting have advanced creation of cardiac constructs, most of them still lack the optimal maturity and functional multicellular crosstalk. To address these gaps, this review critically evaluates our current understanding of cardiac cellular/ECM heterogeneity and synthesizes progress in recapitulating these features. By aligning challenges with emerging innovations, we provide a roadmap to drive cardiac tissue engineering innovations toward clinically transformative solutions.

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BioengineeringBiomaterialsCardiovascular medicineTissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID40697825
PMCPMC12281012

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