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    Networked lymphatic endothelial cells in a transplanted cell sheet contribute to form functional lymphatic vessels

    This study evaluated whether cell sheets containing a network of lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) promoted lymphangiogenesis after transplantation in vivo. Cell sheets with a LEC network were constructed by ...

    Ayumi Inoue Nagahara, Jun Homma, Bikei Ryu, Hidekazu Sekine in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    External pressure dynamics promote kidney viability and perfusate filtration during ex vivo kidney perfusion

    Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has not yet been established as a technique for preserving organs for a day. A key contributing factor to the same is that the perfusing solutions cannot circulate continuo...

    Yuhei Higashi, Jun Homma, Hidekazu Sekine, Hiroki Yago in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Bioartificial pulsatile cuffs fabricated from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes using a pre-vascularization technique

    There is great interest in the development of techniques to bioengineer pulsatile myocardial tissue as a next-generation regenerative therapy for severe heart failure. However, creation of thick myocardial gra...

    Yuki Endo, Jun Homma, Hidekazu Sekine, Katsuhisa Matsuura in npj Regenerative Medicine (2022)

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    Continuous measurement of surface electrical potentials from transplanted cardiomyocyte tissue derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells under physiological conditions in vivo

    Recording the electrical potentials of bioengineered cardiac tissue after transplantation would help to monitor the maturation of the tissue and detect adverse events such as arrhythmia. However, a few studies...

    Hiroshi Goto, Hyoe Komae, Hidekazu Sekine, Jun Homma, Sunghoon Lee in Heart and Vessels (2021)

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    Engineering of functional cardiac tubes by stepwise transplantation of cardiac cell sheets onto intestinal mesentery

    Implantable organ-like grafts made using tissue engineering techniques could potentially be used as circulatory assist devices in people with heart failure. The aims of this study were to engineer implantable,...

    Noriyasu Masuda, Hidekazu Sekine, Hiroshi Niinami, Tatsuya Shimizu in Heart and Vessels (2020)

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    Correction to: Intermittent application of external positive pressure helps to preserve organ viability during ex vivo perfusion and culture

    article Intermittent application

    Kazunori Sano, Jun Homma, Hidekazu Sekine, Eiji Kobayashi in Journal of Artificial Organs (2020)

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    Intermittent application of external positive pressure helps to preserve organ viability during ex vivo perfusion and culture

    The perfusion of medium through blood vessels allows the preservation of donor organs and culture of bioengineered organs. However, tissue damage due to inadequate perfusion remains a problem. We evaluated whe...

    Kazunori Sano, Jun Homma, Hidekazu Sekine, Eiji Kobayashi in Journal of Artificial Organs (2020)

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    Microfluidic vascular-bed devices for vascularized 3D tissue engineering: tissue engineering on a chip

    In this report, we describe a microfluidic vascular-bed (micro-VB) device providing a platform for 3D tissue engineering with vascular network formation. The micro-VB device allows functional connections betwe...

    Hiroaki Takehara, Katsuhisa Sakaguchi, Hidekazu Sekine in Biomedical Microdevices (2019)

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    Dinaciclib potently suppresses MCL-1 and selectively induces the cell death in human iPS cells without affecting the viability of cardiac tissue

    Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells hold great potential for being a major source of cells for regenerative medicine. One major issue that hinders their advancement to clinic is the persistence of undifferent...

    Khaled Alsayegh, Katsuhisa Matsuura, Hidekazu Sekine, Tatsuya Shimizu in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Tubular Cardiac Tissues Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generate Pulse Pressure In Vivo

    Human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cardiac cells provide the possibility to fabricate cardiac tissues for transplantation. However, it remains unclear human bioengineered cardiac tissues functio...

    Hiroyoshi Seta, Katsuhisa Matsuura, Hidekazu Sekine, Kenji Yamazaki in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    TRPV-1-mediated elimination of residual iPS cells in bioengineered cardiac cell sheet tissues

    The development of a suitable strategy for eliminating remaining undifferentiated cells is indispensable for the use of human-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cells in regenerative medicine. Here, w...

    Katsuhisa Matsuura, Hiroyoshi Seta, Yuji Haraguchi, Khaled Alsayegh in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    In Vitro Engineering of Vascularized Tissue Surrogates

    In vitro scaling up of bioengineered tissues is known to be limited by diffusion issues, specifically a lack of vasculature. Here, we report a new strategy for preserving cell viability in three-dimensional tissu...

    Katsuhisa Sakaguchi, Tatsuya Shimizu, Shigeto Horaguchi in Scientific Reports (2013)

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    In vitro fabrication of functional three-dimensional tissues with perfusable blood vessels

    Artificially engineered tissues may have many therapeutic applications but complex tissues are hard to create in vitro. Here, Okano and colleagues report the production of functional cardiac tissue sheets with pe...

    Hidekazu Sekine, Tatsuya Shimizu, Katsuhisa Sakaguchi in Nature Communications (2013)

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    Fabrication of functional three-dimensional tissues by stacking cell sheets in vitro

    The fabrication of 3D tissues retaining the original functions of tissues/organs in vitro is crucial for optimal tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The fabrication of 3D tissues also contributes to the...

    Yuji Haraguchi, Tatsuya Shimizu, Tadashi Sasagawa, Hidekazu Sekine in Nature Protocols (2012)

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    Myocardial tissue engineering: toward a bioartificial pump

    Regenerative therapies, including cell injection and bioengineered tissue transplantation, have the potential to treat severe heart failure. Direct implantation of isolated skeletal myoblasts and bone-marrow-d...

    Hidekazu Sekine, Tatsuya Shimizu, Teruo Okano in Cell and Tissue Research (2012)