| Literature DB >> 29082353 |
HaYeun Ji1, Hye Sung Kim1, Hae-Won Kim2,3, Kam W Leong1,4.
Abstract
Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) play an essential role in remodeling the vasculature during disease progression. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) provide an attractive approach to obtain autologous SMC source for patient-specific disease modeling. Here we discuss the current methods to 1) derive functional SMC from iPSC, 2) model vascular diseases using SMC generated from patient-derived iPSC, and 3) modulate microenvironmental cues to enhance cellular differentiation and functionality and better mimic the physiological environment. We emphasize that continuous exploration of biomaterial technologies to engineer a more SMC-specific microenvironment will provide further insight on complex vascular diseases.Entities:
Year: 2017 PMID: 29082353 PMCID: PMC5654589 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2017.02.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Biomed Eng ISSN: 2468-4511