Fang, Juntao
Yang, Qiangbing
Maas, Renée G. C.
Vader, Pieter
Mokry, Michal
van den Dungen, Noortje A. M.
Qian, Li
Xiao, Junjie
Schiffelers, Raymond
Lei, Zhiyong
Sluijter, Joost P. G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) fellowship program (201906210082)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82400345)
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (2025A04J4716)
ZonMw-TAS program (116002016)
ZonMw-TAS program (116002016)
Project EVICARE of the European Research Council (725229)
Article History
Received: 22 June 2025
Accepted: 22 October 2025
First Online: 29 December 2025
Declarations
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: Human fetal heart tissue was obtained by individual permission using standard written informed consent procedures and prior approval of the ethics committee of the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. This is in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki for the use of human tissue or subjects. All experiments were conducted according to the criteria of the code of proper use of human tissue used in the Netherlands.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.