Patching the heart with extracellular vesicles
A hydrogel patch for the sustained delivery of extracellular vesicles from cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells improves tissue regeneration in infarcted rat hearts.
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A hydrogel patch for the sustained delivery of extracellular vesicles from cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells improves tissue regeneration in infarcted rat hearts.
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The cover illustrates myocardial rat tissue regenerated after infarct via the sustained cell-free delivery, through a hydrogel patch, of extracellular vesicles secreted by cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
See Liu et al., https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-018-0229-7