Publications
] "Cardiac fibroblast paracrine factors alter impulse conduction and ion channel expression of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes." Cardiovascular Research 83, no. 4 (2009): 688-697.
"Cardiac Fibroblasts Strongly Affect Cardiac Action Potential Propagation by Paracrine Rather Than Coupling Mechanisms." In Circulation, S635. Vol. 120., 2009.
"Cardiac tissue engineering using stem cells." IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 28, no. 2 (2009): 80-89.
"Cell Therapies for Arrhythmias: Genetically Engineered Coupling Determines the Effect on Anisotropic Cardiac Conduction." In Circulation, S765-S766. Vol. 120., 2009.
"Electromechanically Functional Cardiac Tissue Constructs Engineered From Embryonic Stem Cells." In Circulation, S810-S811. Vol. 120., 2009.
"Electrotonic loading of anisotropic cardiac monolayers by unexcitable cells depends on connexin type and expression level." American journal of physiology. Cell physiology 297, no. 2 (2009): C339-C351.
"Engineered skeletal muscle tissue networks with controllable architecture." Biomaterials 30, no. 7 (2009): 1401-1412.
"Large 3-Dimensional Tissue Engineered Cardiac Patch With Controlled Electrical Anisotropy." In Circulation, S821. Vol. 120., 2009.
"Mesoscopic hydrogel molding to control the 3D geometry of bioartificial muscle tissues." Nature Protocols 4, no. 10 (2009): 1522-1534.
"A method to replicate the microstructure of heart tissue in vitro using DTMRI-based cell micropatterning." Annals of Biomedical Engineering 37, no. 12 (2009): 2510-2521.
"Novel micropatterned cardiac cell cultures with realistic ventricular microstructure." Biophysical Journal 96, no. 9 (2009): 3873-3885.
"Cardiac cell therapy in vitro: reproducible assays for comparing the efficacy of different donor cells." IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 27, no. 1 (2008): 72-80.
"Effect of Electromechanical Stimulation on the Maturation of Myotubes on Aligned Electrospun Fibers." Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering 1, no. 2-3 (2008): 133-145.
"Genetic engineering and stem cells: combinatorial approaches for cardiac cell therapy." IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 27, no. 3 (2008): 85-88.
"In Vitro Cellular Implantation Assay To Quantitatively Compare The Ability Of Different Donor Cells To Electrically Conduct Within Cardiac Tissue." Circulation 118, no. 18 (2008): S395.
"Micropatterned Ventricular Slice: Role of Realistic Tissue Microstructure In Impulse Conduction." Circulation 118, no. 18 (2008): S493.
"Structural coupling of cardiomyocytes and noncardiomyocytes: quantitative comparisons using a novel micropatterned cell pair assay." American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 295, no. 1 (2008): H390-H400.
"Tissue engineering of functional skeletal muscle: challenges and recent advances." IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 27, no. 5 (2008): 109-113.
"Micromolded cardiac network patches for treatment of infarcted heart." Circulation 116, no. 16 (2007): 68-69.
"Novel anisotropic engineered cardiac tissues: studies of electrical propagation." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 361, no. 4 (2007): 847-853.
"Paracrine factors from cardiac fibroblasts slow conduction velocity and prolong the action potential duration of cardiomyocytes." Circulation 116, no. 16 (2007): 87.
"Sodium channel kinetic changes that produce Brugada syndrome or progressive cardiac conduction system disease." American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 292, no. 1 (2007): H399-H407.
"Stem cell therapies for heart disease: why do we need bioengineers?" IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 26, no. 4 (2007): 76-79.
"Acceleration of functional reentry by rapid pacing in anisotropic cardiac monolayers: formation of multi-wave functional reentries." Cardiovascular Research 69, no. 2 (2006): 381-390.