1.  RK Birla, GH Borschel, RG Dennis, DL Brown, “Myocardial Engineering In Vivo: Formation and Characterization of Contractile, Vascularized three-dimensional cardiac tissue”, Tissue Engineering 11(5/6)      2005 p803-813 (pdf)

2.  K Baar, RK Birla, MO Boluyt, GH Borschel, EM Arruda, RG Dennis, “Self-organization of rat cardiac cells into contractile 3-D cardiac tissue”. FASEB Journal. 276(19) 2005 p275-277. (pdf)

3.  RK Birla, GH Borschel, RG Dennis, “In Vivo Conditioning of Tissue-Engineered Heart Muscle Improves Contractile Performance” Artificial Organs, November 2005 (pdf)
 
4.  RK Birla “Tissue Engineering for Myocardial Regeneration” Chapter 16 p241-254  Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Repair: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications.  Edited by Nabil      Dib, Doris A. Taylor, and Edward B Diethrich.  September 2005. (pdf)