| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Introduction Introduction. Bioengineering the heart Magdi Yacoub and Robert Nerem PMCID: PMC2042531 Research Articles The heart-forming fields: one or multiple? Antoon F.M Moorman, Vincent M Christoffels, Robert H Anderson, and Maurice J.B van den Hoff PMCID: PMC2440394 Extracellular matrix, mechanotransduction and structural hierarchies in heart tissue engineering Kevin K Parker and Donald E Ingber PMCID: PMC2440395 Designed triple-helical peptides as tools for collagen biochemistry and matrix engineering Takaki Koide PMCID: PMC2440396 Applying elastic fibre biology in vascular tissue engineering Cay M Kielty, Simon Stephan, Michael J Sherratt, Matthew Williamson, and C. Adrian Shuttleworth PMCID: PMC2440413 Biological matrices and bionanotechnology Patricia M Taylor PMCID: PMC2440397 Cell-bionics: tools for real-time sensor processing Chris Toumazou and Tony Cass PMCID: PMC2440398 Flow and myocardial interaction: an imaging perspective Guang-Zhong Yang, Robert Merrifield, Sharmeen Masood, and Philip J Kilner PMCID: PMC2440399 Immune response to stem cells and strategies to induce tolerance Puspa Batten, Nadia A Rosenthal, and Magdi H Yacoub PMCID: PMC2440400 Biomimetic approach to cardiac tissue engineering M Radisic, H Park, S Gerecht, C Cannizzaro, R Langer, and G Vunjak-Novakovic PMCID: PMC2440401 Heart valve function: a biomechanical perspective Michael S Sacks and Ajit P Yoganathan PMCID: PMC2440402 Fluid–structure interaction models of the mitral valve: function in normal and pathological states K.S Kunzelman, D.R Einstein, and R.P Cochran PMCID: PMC2440403 Aortic root dynamics and surgery: from craft to science Allen Cheng, Paul Dagum, and D. Craig Miller PMCID: PMC2440404 Heart valve macro- and microstructure Martin Misfeld and Hans-Hinrich Sievers PMCID: PMC2440405 Molecular and functional characteristics of heart-valve interstitial cells Adrian H Chester and Patricia M Taylor PMCID: PMC2440406 Valvular endothelial cells and the mechanoregulation of valvular pathology Jonathan T Butcher and Robert M Nerem PMCID: PMC2440407 The shear stress of it all: the cell membrane and mechanochemical transduction Charles R White and John A Frangos PMCID: PMC2440408 Understanding endothelial cell apoptosis: what can the transcriptome, glycome and proteome reveal? Muna Affara, Benjamin Dunmore, Christopher Savoie, Seiya Imoto, Yoshinori Tamada, Hiromitsu Araki, D. Stephen Charnock-Jones, Satoru Miyano, and Cristin Print PMCID: PMC2440409 Valvulogenesis: the moving target Jonathan T Butcher and Roger R Markwald PMCID: PMC2440410 Tissue engineering of heart valves using decellularized xenogeneic or polymeric starter matrices Dörthe Schmidt, Ulrich A Stock, and Simon P Hoerstrup PMCID: PMC2440411 Feeling into form Antony Gormley PMCID: PMC2440412 |
