Cardiale mechanobiologie-op-een-chip (COACH). KU Leuven
The ability of cardiac cells to perceive mechanical cues is essential for heart function, and the malfunction of their mechanosensing apparatus is involved in diseases processes of the cardiovascular system. Indeed, several pathologies impacting on the function of the heart, from those affecting the vessels, to cardiac fibrosis and to the pathologies directly affecting the cardiac muscle, like the genetic polymorphisms associated with heart ...