Publications

Nguyen, Hung, Nima Badie, Luke McSpadden, Dawn Pedrotty, and Nenad Bursac. “Quantifying electrical interactions between cardiomyocytes and other cells in micropatterned cell pairs.” Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.) 1181 (January 2014): 249–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1047-2_21.

Nguyen, H., N. Badie, L. McSpadden, D. Pedrotty, and N. Bursac. “Quantifying electrical interactions between cardiomyocytes and other cells in micropatterned cell pairs.” Methods in Molecular Biology 1181 (2014): 249–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1047-2-21.

Engelmayr, G. C., D. Zhang, and N. Bursac. “Maturation of functional cardiac tissue patches,” January 1, 2014, 248–82. https://doi.org/10.1533/9780857096715.2.248.

Bursac, N., and J. J. Kim. “Cardiac Fibroblasts and Arrhythmogenesis.” In Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside: Sixth Edition, 297–308, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4557-2856-5.00030-3.

Kirkton, Robert D., Nima Badie, and Nenad Bursac. “Spatial profiles of electrical mismatch determine vulnerability to conduction failure across a host-donor cell interface.” Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 6, no. 6 (December 2013): 1200–1207. https://doi.org/10.1161/circep.113.001050.

Juhas, Mark, and Nenad Bursac. “Engineering skeletal muscle repair.” Current Opinion in Biotechnology 24, no. 5 (October 2013): 880–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2013.04.013.

Zhang, Donghui, Ilya Y. Shadrin, Jason Lam, Hai-Qian Xian, H Ralph Snodgrass, and Nenad Bursac. “Tissue-engineered cardiac patch for advanced functional maturation of human ESC-derived cardiomyocytes.” Biomaterials 34, no. 23 (July 2013): 5813–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.04.026.

Christoforou, Nicolas, Brian Liau, Syandan Chakraborty, Malathi Chellapan, Nenad Bursac, and Kam W. Leong. “Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac progenitors differentiate to cardiomyocytes and form biosynthetic tissues.” PloS One 8, no. 6 (January 2013): e65963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065963.

Jiang, Wei, Donghui Zhang, Nenad Bursac, and Yi Zhang. “WNT3 is a biomarker capable of predicting the definitive endoderm differentiation potential of hESCs.” Stem Cell Reports 1, no. 1 (January 2013): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2013.03.003.

Truskey, George A., Hardean E. Achneck, Nenad Bursac, Hon Chan, Cindy S. Cheng, Cristina Fernandez, Sungmin Hong, et al. “Design considerations for an integrated microphysiological muscle tissue for drug and tissue toxicity testing.” Stem Cell Res Ther 4 Suppl 1, no. Suppl 1 (2013): S10. https://doi.org/10.1186/scrt371.

Christoforou, Nicolas, Malathi Chellappan, Andrew F. Adler, Robert D. Kirkton, Tianyi Wu, Russell C. Addis, Nenad Bursac, and Kam W. Leong. “Transcription factors MYOCD, SRF, Mesp1 and SMARCD3 enhance the cardio-inducing effect of GATA4, TBX5, and MEF2C during direct cellular reprogramming.” PloS One 8, no. 5 (January 2013): e63577. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063577.

Zhang, Donghui, Jason Lam, Brian Liau, Ralph Snodgrass, and Nenad Bursac. “Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Tissue Patch with Advanced Structure and Function.” CIRCULATION 126, no. 21 (November 20, 2012).

Kirkton, Robert D., and Nenad Bursac. “Genetic engineering of somatic cells to study and improve cardiac function.” Europace : European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology : Journal of the Working Groups on Cardiac Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology 14 Suppl 5 (November 2012): v40–49. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eus269.

McSpadden, Luke C., Hung Nguyen, and Nenad Bursac. “Size and ionic currents of unexcitable cells coupled to cardiomyocytes distinctly modulate cardiac action potential shape and pacemaking activity in micropatterned cell pairs.” Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 5, no. 4 (August 2012): 821–30. https://doi.org/10.1161/circep.111.969329.

Piacentino, Valentino, Carmelo A. Milano, Michael Bolanos, Jacob Schroder, Emily Messina, Adam S. Cockrell, Edward Jones, et al. “X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein-mediated attenuation of apoptosis, using a novel cardiac-enhanced adeno-associated viral vector.” Hum Gene Ther 23, no. 6 (June 2012): 635–46. https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2011.186.

Christoforou, Nicolas, Brian Liau, Nenad Bursac, and Kam W. Leong. “Engineering an electromechanically functional 3d biosynthetic tissue using embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells.” In CIRCULATION, 125:E735–E735. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2012.

Bian, Weining, Mark Juhas, Terry W. Pfeiler, and Nenad Bursac. “Local tissue geometry determines contractile force generation of engineered muscle networks.” Tissue Engineering. Part A 18, no. 9–10 (May 2012): 957–67. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2011.0313.

Scull, James A., Luke C. McSpadden, Herman D. Himel, Nima Badie, and Nenad Bursac. “Single-detector simultaneous optical mapping of V(m) and [Ca(2+)](i) in cardiac monolayers.” Annals of Biomedical Engineering 40, no. 5 (May 2012): 1006–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-011-0478-z.

Bursac, Nenad. “Colonizing the heart from the epicardial side.” Stem Cell Research & Therapy 3, no. 2 (April 2012): 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/scrt106.

Liau, Brian, Donghui Zhang, and Nenad Bursac. “Functional cardiac tissue engineering.” Regenerative Medicine 7, no. 2 (March 2012): 187–206. https://doi.org/10.2217/rme.11.122.

Bian, Weining, and Nenad Bursac. “Soluble miniagrin enhances contractile function of engineered skeletal muscle.” FASEB Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 26, no. 2 (February 2012): 955–65. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.11-187575.

Badie, Nima, James A. Scull, Rebecca Y. Klinger, Ava Krol, and Nenad Bursac. “Conduction block in micropatterned cardiomyocyte cultures replicating the structure of ventricular cross-sections.” Cardiovasc Res 93, no. 2 (February 1, 2012): 263–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvr304.

Muller-Borer, Barbara, Gwyn Esch, Rob Aldina, Woohyun Woon, Raymond Fox, Nenad Bursac, Sylvia Hiller, et al. “Calcium dependent CAMTA1 in adult stem cell commitment to a myocardial lineage.” PloS One 7, no. 6 (January 2012): e38454. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038454.

Liau, Brian, Nicolas Christoforou, Kam W. Leong, and Nenad Bursac. “Pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac tissue patch with advanced structure and function.” Biomaterials 32, no. 35 (December 2011): 9180–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.08.050.

McSpadden, Luke C., and Nenad Bursac. “Size and Ionic Currents of Unexcitable Cells Coupled to Cardiomyocytes Distinctly Modulate Cardiac Action Potential Shape and Pacemaking Activity.” CIRCULATION 124, no. 21 (November 22, 2011).