Chapter title |
Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models: Generation and Characterization of Cardiac Cells.
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Chapter number | 172 |
Book title |
Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, December 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/7651_2014_172 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3033-3, 978-1-4939-3034-0
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Authors |
Zanella F, Sheikh F, Fabian Zanella, Farah Sheikh, Zanella, Fabian, Sheikh, Farah |
Editors |
Andras Nagy, Kursad Turksen |
Abstract |
The generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes has been of utmost interest for the study of cardiac development, cardiac disease modeling, and evaluation of cardiotoxic effects of novel candidate drugs. Several protocols have been developed to guide human stem cells toward the cardiogenic path. Pioneering work used serum to promote cardiogenesis; however, low cardiogenic throughputs, lack of chemical definition, and batch-to-batch variability of serum lots constituted a considerable impediment to the implementation of those protocols to large-scale cell biology. Further work focused on the manipulation of pathways that mouse genetics indicated to be fundamental in cardiac development to promote cardiac differentiation in stem cells. Although extremely elegant, those serum-free protocols involved the use of human recombinant cytokines that tend to be quite costly and which can also be variable between lots. The latest generation of cardiogenic protocols aimed for a more cost-effective and reproducible definition of the conditions driving cardiac differentiation, using small molecules to manipulate cardiogenic pathways overriding the need for cytokines. This chapter details methods based on currently available cardiac differentiation protocols for the generation and characterization of robust numbers of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes under chemically defined conditions. |
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