Cardiac Regeneration
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2020) | Viewed by 11586
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cardiac regeneration; innate immunity and inflammation in cardiovascular disease; cellular transdifferentiation and reprogramming
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cardiac regeneration remains a dream of modern medicine. After decades of intense stem cell research, still no treatment option for the regeneration of the heart exists in clinical routine use. At the same time, heart failure is a classified endemic in the Western world. It is ever increasing, thereby causing a tremendous socio-economic problem for public healthcare systems. We therefore are in urgent need of innovative new approaches towards cardiac regeneration. This can only be achieved by high-class experimental research that on the one hand elucidates pathomechanisms and broadens our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of regeneration. On the other hand, we need to have a clear understanding of the translational potential of the technology.
This Special Issue on "Cardiac Regeneration" will therefore focus on original research papers and comprehensive reviews, dealing with cutting-edge experimental approaches for myocardial regeneration. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Cellular transdifferentiation and reprogramming;
- Extracellular vesicles;
- Cell-free therapeutic treatment options;
- New approaches in gene therapy and genomic editing;
- Bioengineering approaches;
- Angiogenesis and neovascularization;
- RNA-based tissue regeneration;
- Epigenetic regulation.
Dr. Johannes Holfeld
Dr. Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü
Guest Editors
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