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The role of Wnt regulation in heart development, cardiac repair and disease: A
tissue engineering perspective
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Pahnke A
; Conant G
; Huyer LD
; Zhao Y
; Feric N
; Radisic M
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
2016[May]; 473
(3
): 698-703
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Wingless-related integration site (Wnt) signaling has proven to be a fundamental
mechanism in cardiovascular development as well as disease. Understanding its
particular role in heart formation has helped to develop pluripotent stem cell
differentiation protocols that produce relatively pure cardiomyocyte populations.
The resultant cardiomyocytes have been used to generate heart tissue for
pharmaceutical testing, and to study physiological and disease states. Such
protocols in combination with induced pluripotent stem cell technology have
yielded patient-derived cardiomyocytes that exhibit some of the hallmarks of
cardiovascular disease and are therefore being used to model disease states.
While FDA approval of new treatments typically requires animal experiments, the
burgeoning field of tissue engineering could act as a replacement. This would
necessitate the generation of reproducible three-dimensional cardiac tissues in a
well-controlled environment, which exhibit native heart properties, such as
cellular density, composition, extracellular matrix composition, and
structure-function. Such tissues could also enable the further study of Wnt
signaling. Furthermore, as Wnt signaling has been found to have a mechanistic
role in cardiac pathophysiology, e.g. heart attack, hypertrophy, atherosclerosis,
and aortic stenosis, its strategic manipulation could provide a means of
generating reproducible and specific, physiological and pathological cardiac
models.