Review Article

Nanoscaffolds for Guided Cardiac Repair: The New Therapeutic Challenge of Regenerative Medicine

Table 1

Summary of recent tissue engineering technologies in cardiac failure.

ApproachAuthors and yearApplicationsCell typesMaterialsDelivery routesReference

Cell sheet engineeringKikuchi and Okano, 2005
Matsuda et al., 2007
Shimizu et al., 2003
Masuda et al., 2008
Yang et al., 2007
Yang et al., 2006
Severe heart failure, myocardial tissue reconstruction(i) Chick embryo cardiomyocytes
(ii) Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
(iii) Skeletal myoblasts
(iv) MSCs
(v) Coculture of cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells
Temperature-responsive culture dishes: PNIPAAm grafted to TCPS(i) Transplantation into dorsal subcutaneous tissues
(ii) Direct transplantation into host damaged heart
[6166]

Cell sheet fragmentsChen et al., 2007
Wang et al., 2008
Yeh et al., 2010
MI(i) Rat bone marrow MSCs
(ii) hAFSCs
Thermoresponsive MC hydrogel coated on TCPS dishesTransplantation via direct intramyocardial injection[6769]

Tissue-bioengineered cardiac patches: scaffolds (biological or synthetic) laden with cell culture systemPiao et al., 2007
Wei et al., 2008
Huang et al., 2010
Chen et al., 2010
Heart failure associated with MI(i) Rat BMMNCs
(ii) Rat bone marrow MSCs
(iii) Cardiomyocytes differentiated from hESCs
(iv) Murine ESCs
(i) Porous acellular bovine pericardia
(ii) PGCL
(iii) PGS
(iv) Thermoresponsive MC hydrogel system coated on TCPS dishes
Implantation and suture over different infarcted areas[7073]

(i) Cell sheets
(ii) Bioengineered patches
(iii) Hydrogels
Scudellari, 2009Heart diseases(i) Skeletal myoblasts
(ii) BMCs
(iii) MSCs
(iv) Cardiac stem cells
(v) ESCs
(vi) iPS
(i) Biomaterials
(ii) Biological constructs
(i) Direct injection into the heart muscle
(ii) Percutaneous injection catheter-based delivery
[74]

MSCs: mesenchymal stem cells; PNIPAAm: poly(N-isopropylacrylamide); TCPS: tissue culture polystyrene; MI: myocardial infarction; hAFSCSs: human amniotic fluid stem cells; MC: methylcellulose; BMMNCs: bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells; hESCs: human embryonic stem cells; ESCs: embryonic stem cells; PGCL: poly-glycolide-co-caprolactone; PGS: poly(glycerol sebacate); BMCs: bone marrow cells; iPS: induced pluripotent stem cells.