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Human cardiac organoids for the modelling of myocardial infarction and drug cardiotoxicity

  • Dylan J. Richards
  • , Yang Li
  • , Charles M. Kerr
  • , Jenny Yao
  • , Gyda C. Beeson
  • , Robert C. Coyle
  • , Xun Chen
  • , Jia Jia
  • , Brooke Damon
  • , Robert Wilson
  • , E. Starr Hazard
  • , Gary Hardiman
  • , Donald R. Menick
  • , Craig C. Beeson
  • , Hai Yao
  • , Tong Ye*
  • , Ying Mei
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Clemson University
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Medical University of South Carolina
  • Harvard University
  • Queen's University Belfast

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Abstract

Environmental factors are the largest contributors to cardiovascular disease. Here we show that cardiac organoids that incorporate an oxygen-diffusion gradient and that are stimulated with the neurotransmitter noradrenaline model the structure of the human heart after myocardial infarction (by mimicking the infarcted, border and remote zones), and recapitulate hallmarks of myocardial infarction (in particular, pathological metabolic shifts, fibrosis and calcium handling) at the transcriptomic, structural and functional levels. We also show that the organoids can model hypoxia-enhanced doxorubicin cardiotoxicity. Human organoids that model diseases with non-genetic pathological factors could help with drug screening and development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)446-462
Number of pages17
JournalNature Biomedical Engineering
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2020
Externally publishedYes

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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