1. Lloyd-Jones, D., Adams, R. J., Brown, T. M., Carnethon, M., Dai, S., De Simone, G., Ferguson, T. B., Ford, E., Furie, K., Gillespie, C., Go, A., Greenlund, K., Haase, N., Hailpern, S., Ho, P. M., Howard, V., Kissela, B., Kittner, S., Lackland, D., Lisabeth, L., Marelli, A., McDermott, M. M., Meigs, J., Mozaffarian, D., Mussolino, M., Nichol, G., Roger, V. L., Rosamond, W., Sacco, R., Sorlie, P., Stafford, R., Thom, T., Wasserthiel-Smoller, S., Wong, N. D. & Wylie-Rosett, J. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2010 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation 121, E46–E215 (2010).
2. Pedron, S., van Lierop, S., Horstman, P., Penterman, R., Broer, D. J. & Peeters, E. Stimuli responsive delivery vehicles for cardiac microtissue transplantation. Adv. Funct. Mater. 21, 1624–1630 (2011).
3. Li, Z. Q. & Guan, J. J. Hydrogels for cardiac tissue engineering. Polymers 3, 740–761 (2011).
4. Wang, F. & Guan, J. J. Cellular cardiomyoplasty and cardiac tissue engineering for myocardial therapy. Adv. Drug Deliver. Rev. 62, 784–797 (2010).
5. Alcon, A., Bozkulak, E. C. & Qyang, Y. B. Regenerating functional heart tissue for myocardial repair. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 69, 2635–2656 (2012).