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Record W4412854542 · doi:10.1016/j.mtbio.2026.103236

Epicardial extracellular vesicles modulate gene expression following ischemia-reperfusion injury in heart-on-a-chip

2025· preprint· en· W4412854542 on OpenAlexafffund
Karl T. Wagner, Dawn Bannerman, Qinghua Wu, Simon Pascual‐Gil, Ian Fernandes, Luis Felipe Jiménez Vargas, Shuo Yan, Ramak Khosravi, Sargol Okhovatian, Dhana Abdo, Milica Radisic

Bibliographic record

VenueMaterials Today Bio · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicExtracellular vesicles in disease
Canadian institutionsStem Cell NetworkToronto General HospitalUniversity of TorontoCanada Research ChairsUniversity Health Network
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of TorontoCanada Foundation for InnovationCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsExtracellular vesiclesIschemiaExtracellularCardiologyGene expressionReperfusion injuryInternal medicineCardiac ischemiaMedicineGenePharmacologyChemistryCell biologyBiologyBiochemistry

Abstract

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The epicardium is an essential regulator of cardiac development, homeostasis, and injury, yet the composition and impacts of epicardial cell-secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) remain incompletely understood. Here, we harness an epicardial Biowire platform integrating human stem cell derived epicardial cells with functional myocardium and apply transcriptomics to reveal enriched EV transport in tissues containing epicardial cells. Profiling epicardial-EVs identified key miRNAs and their conservation through stimulated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Supplementation of epicardial-EVs to tissues undergoing ischemia-reperfusion injury influenced gene expression associated with reduction of extracellular matrix remodeling, fibroblast activation, and suppression of cell-ECM interactions. Correlation of EV-miRNAs with mRNA targets highlighted the role of miR-30d-5p, miR-9-5p, miR-16-5p, and the let-7 family in moderating deleterious fibrotic activation and matrix remodeling during myocardial injury in vitro.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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