An engineered human cardiac tissue model reveals contributions of systemic lupus erythematosus autoantibodies to myocardial injury
Sharon Fleischer, Trevor R. Nash, Manuel A. Tamargo, Roberta I. Lock, Gabriela Venturini, Margaretha Morsink, Pamela L. Graney, Vanessa Li, Morgan J. Lamberti, Martin Liberman, Youngbin Kim, Daniel N. Tavakol, Richard Z. Zhuang, Jaron Whitehead, Richard A. Friedman, , Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
This study uses engineered human cardiac tissues to show how SLE autoantibodies affect myocardial injury through distinct binding patterns and functional effects on cardiac cells.
bioRxiv · Mar 7, 2024Bioengineering