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SnoRNAs in cardiovascular development, function, and disease (2024)
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Chabronova, A., Holmes, T. L., Hoang, D. M., Denning, C., James, V., Smith, J. G. W., & Peffers, M. J. (2024). SnoRNAs in cardiovascular development, function, and disease. Trends in Molecular Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2024.03.004

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are emerging as important regulators of cardiovascular (patho)biology. Several roles of snoRNAs have recently been identified in heart development and congenital heart diseases, as well as their dynamic regulation in hy... Read More about SnoRNAs in cardiovascular development, function, and disease.

Perlecan (HSPG2) promotes structural, contractile, and metabolic development of human cardiomyocytes (2024)
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Johnson, B. B., Cosson, M.-V., Tsansizi, L. I., Holmes, T. L., Gilmore, T., Hampton, K., …Smith, J. G. W. (2024). Perlecan (HSPG2) promotes structural, contractile, and metabolic development of human cardiomyocytes. Cell Reports, 43(1), Article 113668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113668

Perlecan (HSPG2), a heparan sulfate proteoglycan similar to agrin, is key for extracellular matrix (ECM) maturation and stabilization. Although crucial for cardiac development, its role remains elusive. We show that perlecan expression increases as c... Read More about Perlecan (HSPG2) promotes structural, contractile, and metabolic development of human cardiomyocytes.

Human model of primary carnitine deficiency cardiomyopathy reveals ferroptosis as a novel mechanism (2023)
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Loos, M., Klampe, B., Schulze, T., Yin, X., Theofilatos, K., Ulmer, B. M., …Hansen, A. (2023). Human model of primary carnitine deficiency cardiomyopathy reveals ferroptosis as a novel mechanism. Stem Cell Reports, 18(11), 2123-2137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2023.09.002

Primary carnitine deficiency (PCD) is an autosomal recessive monogenic disorder caused by mutations in SLC22A5. This gene encodes for OCTN2, which transports the essential metabolite carnitine into the cell. PCD patients suffer from muscular weakness... Read More about Human model of primary carnitine deficiency cardiomyopathy reveals ferroptosis as a novel mechanism.

Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content (2022)
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Taylor, M., Simoes, F., Smith, J., Genapathy, S., Canning, A., Lledos, M., …Zelzer, M. (2022). Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content. Surface and Interface Analysis, 54(4), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.7052

Peptide-coated surfaces are widely employed in biomaterial design, but quantifiable correlation between surface composition and biological response is challenging due to, for example, instrumental limitations, a lack of suitable model surfaces or lim... Read More about Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content.

Complex Relationship Between Cardiac Fibroblasts and Cardiomyocytes in Health and Disease (2021)
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Hall, C., Gehmlich, K., Denning, C., & Pavlovic, D. (2021). Complex Relationship Between Cardiac Fibroblasts and Cardiomyocytes in Health and Disease. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(5), Article e019338. https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.120.019338

Cardiac fibroblasts are the primary cell type responsible for deposition of extracellular matrix in the heart, providing support to the contracting myocardium and contributing to a myriad of physiological signaling processes. Despite the importance o... Read More about Complex Relationship Between Cardiac Fibroblasts and Cardiomyocytes in Health and Disease.

Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion (2020)
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Nasir, A., Thorpe, J., Burroughs, L., Meurs, J., Pijuan‐Galito, S., Irvine, D. J., …Denning, C. (2020). Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 10(6), Article 2001448. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202001448

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can be expanded and differentiated in vitro into almost any adult tissue cell type, and thus have great potential as a source for cell therapies with biomedical application. In this study, a fully-defined polymer... Read More about Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion.

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated generation and analysis of N terminus polymorphic models of β2AR in isogenic hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (2020)
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Kondrashov, A., Mohd Yusof, N. A., Hasan, A., Goulding, J., Kodagoda, T., Hoang, D. M., …Denning, C. (2021). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated generation and analysis of N terminus polymorphic models of β2AR in isogenic hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Molecular Therapy - Methods and Clinical Development, 20, 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2020.10.019

© 2020 During normal- and patho-physiological situations, the behavior of the beta2-adrenoreceptor (β2AR) is influenced by polymorphic variants. The functional impact of such polymorphisms has been suggested from data derived from genetic association... Read More about CRISPR/Cas9-mediated generation and analysis of N terminus polymorphic models of β2AR in isogenic hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Transfection of hPSC-Cardiomyocytes Using Viafect™ Transfection Reagent (2020)
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Bodbin, S. E., Denning, C., & Mosqueira, D. (2020). Transfection of hPSC-Cardiomyocytes Using Viafect™ Transfection Reagent. Methods and Protocols, 3(3), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps3030057

Twenty years since their first derivation, human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) have shown promise in disease modelling research, while their potential for cardiac repair is being investigated. However, low transfection effic... Read More about Transfection of hPSC-Cardiomyocytes Using Viafect™ Transfection Reagent.

Blinded, multi-centre evaluation of drug-induced changes in contractility using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (2020)
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Saleem, U., van Meer, B. J., Katili, P. A., Yusof, N. A. N. M., Mannhardt, I., Garcia, A. K., …Denning, C. (2020). Blinded, multi-centre evaluation of drug-induced changes in contractility using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Toxicological Sciences, 176(1), 103–123. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfaa058

Animal models are 78% accurate in determining whether drugs will alter contractility of the human heart. To evaluate the suitability of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) for predictive safety pharmacology, we quan... Read More about Blinded, multi-centre evaluation of drug-induced changes in contractility using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

Simultaneous measurement of excitation-contraction coupling parameters identifies mechanisms underlying contractile responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (2019)
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Van Meer, B. J., Krotenberg, A., Sala, L., Davis, R. P., Eschenhagen, T., Denning, C., …Mummery, C. L. (2019). Simultaneous measurement of excitation-contraction coupling parameters identifies mechanisms underlying contractile responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Nature Communications, 10, Article 4325. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12354-8

Cardiomyocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC-CMs) are increasingly recognized as valuable for determining the effects of drugs on ion channels but they do not always accurately predict contractile responses of the human heart. This... Read More about Simultaneous measurement of excitation-contraction coupling parameters identifies mechanisms underlying contractile responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells (2019)
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Howe, C. L., Webb, K. F., Abayzeed, S. A., Anderson, D. J., Denning, C., & Russell, N. A. (2019). Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 52(10), Article 104001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aaf849

Surface plasmons (SPs) are surface charge density oscillations occuring at a metal/dieletric interface and are highly sensitive to refractive index variations adjacent to the surface. This sensitivity has been exploited successfully for chemical and... Read More about Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells.

Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable Cells (2018)
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Howe, C. L., Webb, K. F., Abayzeed, S. A., Anderson, D. J., Denning, C., & Russell, N. A. Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable Cells

Surface plasmons are highly sensitive to refractive index variations adjacent to the surface. This sensitivity has been exploited successfully for chemical and biological assays. In these systems, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based sensor detect... Read More about Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Excitable Cells.

MUSCLEMOTION: a versatile open software tool to quantify cardiomyocyte and cardiac muscle contraction in vitro and in vivo (2017)
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Sala, L., van Meer, B., Tertoolen, L., Bakkers, J., Bellin, M., Davis, R., …Burton, F. (2018). MUSCLEMOTION: a versatile open software tool to quantify cardiomyocyte and cardiac muscle contraction in vitro and in vivo. Circulation Research, 122(3), e5. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.312067

Rationale: There are several methods to measure cardiomyocyte (CM) and muscle contraction but these require customized hardware, expensive apparatus and advanced informatics or can only be used in single experimental models. Consequently, data and te... Read More about MUSCLEMOTION: a versatile open software tool to quantify cardiomyocyte and cardiac muscle contraction in vitro and in vivo.

Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells: from laboratory curiosity to industrial biomedical platform (2015)
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Denning, C., Borgdorff, V., Crutchley, J., Firth, K. S., George, V., Kalra, S., …Young, L. E. (2016). Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells: from laboratory curiosity to industrial biomedical platform. BBA - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1863(7), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2015.10.014

Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs-CMs) could revolutionise biomedicine. Global burden of heart failure will soon reach USD $90bn, while unexpected cardiotoxicity underlies 28% of drug withdrawals. Advances in hPSC isolation, Cas... Read More about Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells: from laboratory curiosity to industrial biomedical platform.

Combined hydrogels that switch human pluripotent stem cells from self-renewal to differentiation (2014)
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Dixon, J. E., Shah, D. A., Rogers, C., Hall, S., Weston, N., Parmenter, C. D., …Shakesheff, K. M. (2014). Combined hydrogels that switch human pluripotent stem cells from self-renewal to differentiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(15), 5580-5585. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319685111

The ability of materials to define the architecture and microenvironment experienced by cells provides new opportunities to direct the fate of human pluripotent stem cells (HPSCs) [Robinton DA, Daley GQ (2012) Nature 481(7381):295-305]. However, the... Read More about Combined hydrogels that switch human pluripotent stem cells from self-renewal to differentiation.