Abstract
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. The limited capability of heart tissue to regenerate has prompted methodological developments for creating de novo cardiomyocytes, both in vitro and in vivo. Beyond uses in cell replacement therapy, patient-specific cardiomyocytes may find applications in drug testing, drug discovery, and disease modeling. Recently, approaches for generating cardiomyocytes have expanded to encompass three major sources of starting cells: human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), adult heart-derived cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs), and reprogrammed fibroblasts. We discuss state-of-the-art methods for generating de novo cardiomyocytes from hPSCs and reprogrammed fibroblasts, highlighting potential applications and future challenges.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 16-28 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Cell stem cell |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 6 2012 |
Funding
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the NIH New Innovator Award DP2OD004437, RC1AG036142, R33HL089027, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine RB3-05219, and the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award for Medical Scientists (J.C.W.). Due to space limitations, we are unable to include all of the important papers relevant to induced pluripotent stem cell derivation and application; we apologize to those investigators whose work was omitted here. Joseph Gold is an employee of Geron Corporation.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Genetics
- Molecular Medicine
- Cell Biology