A cigarette filter-derived biomimetic cardiac niche for myocardial infarction repair.

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"This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32071355, U21A20173, 32071363, 32201083), the National Key R&D program of China (2023YFC2412803, 2022YFC2402801), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2022A1515011888), and the Marine Economy Development Project of Department of Natural Resources of Guangdong Province (No. GDNRC[2022]039), China Postdoctoral Fund Program (No. 2021M701599), and Shenzhen Fundamental Research Key Project (JCYJ20200109150641992). Guofeng Tang: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Software, Resources, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Zhentao Li: Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Validation, Software, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Chengbin Ding: Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Jiang Zhao: Investigation, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization. Xianglong Xing: Visualization, Validation, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Yan Sun: Visualization, Validation, Software, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Xiaozhong Qiu: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Project administration, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization. Leyu Wang: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization."