Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

Biomimetic cardiac tissue culture model (CTCM) to emulate cardiac physiology and pathophysiology ex vivo

  • Jessica M. Miller,
  • Moustafa H. Meki,
  • Ahmed Elnakib,
  • Qinghui Ou,
  • Riham R. E. Abouleisa,
  • Xian-Liang Tang,
  • Abou Bakr M. Salama,
  • Ahmad Gebreil,
  • Cindy Lin,
  • Hisham Abdeltawab,
  • Fahmi Khalifa,
  • Bradford G. Hill,
  • Najah Abi-Gerges,
  • Roberto Bolli,
  • Ayman S. El-Baz,
  • Guruprasad A. Giridharan,
  • Tamer M. A. Mohamed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03919-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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