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ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Tissue-Engineered Therapeutics for Lymphatic Regeneration: Solutions for Myocardial Infarction and Secondary Lymphedema.

Alvis Chiu, Joseph M Rutkowski, Qixu Zhang, Feng Zhao

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Review in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alvis ChiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 5045 Emerging Technologies Building 3120 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2390-6580
Joseph M RutkowskiDepartment of Medical Physiology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Medical Research and Education Building, 8447 Riverside Pkwy, Bryan, TX, 77807-3260, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4197-0236
Qixu ZhangDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Feng ZhaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 5045 Emerging Technologies Building 3120 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4138-9027

Funding

Engineered Anisotropic and Vascularized Human Cardiac PatchR01HL146652 · NHLBI · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI ZHAO, FENG · 2020 to 2023
$1.4M
Therapeutic Lymphatic Vessel RegenerationR15CA202656 · NCI · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI ZHAO, FENG · 2016 to 2016
$465k
NCI NIH HHS R15 CA202656NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146652NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL146652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lymphatic system, which regulates inflammation and fluid homeostasis, is damaged in various diseases including myocardial infarction (MI) and breast-cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). Mounting evidence suggests that restoring tissue fluid drainage and clearing excess immune cells by regenerating damaged lymphatic vessels can aid in cardiac repair and lymphedema amelioration. Current treatments primarily address symptoms rather than underlying causes due to a lack of regenerative therapies, highlighting the importance of the lymphatic system as a promising novel therapeutic target. Here cutting-edge research on engineered lymphatic tissues, growth factor therapies, and cell-based approaches designed to enhance lymphangiogenesis and restore lymphatic function is explored. Special focus is placed on how therapies with potential for immediate lymphatic reconstruction, originally designed for treating BCRL, can be applied to MI to augment cardiac repair and reduce heart failure risk. The integration of these novel treatments can significantly improve patient outcomes by promoting lymphatic repair, preventing pathological remodeling, and offering new avenues for managing lymphatic-associated diseases.

Indexed as

Lymphatic VesselsLymphedemaMyocardial InfarctionRegenerationTissue EngineeringAnimalsHumansLymphangiogenesisimmediate lymphatic reconstructionlymphatic regenerationlymphedemamyocardial infarctionstissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID39806804
PMCPMC11936459

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