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 A. J. Morsink, Pamela L. Graney, Vanessa Li, Morgan J. Lamberti, Martin Liberman, Youngbin Kim, Daniel Naveed 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.
Nature Cardiovascular Research · Aug 15, 2024Peer-reviewedBioengineering