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ArticleCellular and molecular bioengineering2012

Cardiogenic Regulation of Stem-Cell Electrical Properties in a Laser-Patterned Biochip.

Zhen Ma, Qiuying Liu, Honghai Liu, Huaxiao Yang, Julie X Yun, Meifeng Xu, Carol A Eisenberg, Thomas K Borg, Roger Markwald, Bruce Z Gao

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Article in Cellular and molecular bioengineering, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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10 authors.

Zhen MaDepartment of Bioengineering, COMSET, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.
Qiuying Liu
Honghai Liu
Huaxiao Yang
Julie X Yun
Meifeng Xu
Carol A Eisenberg
Thomas K Borg
Roger Markwald
Bruce Z Gao

Funding

UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING TISSUE-SPECIFIC VASCULAR PATTERNINGP20RR021949 · NCRR · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI PETKOV, GEORGI V · 2009 to 2011
$5.2M
Differentiation of Bone-Marrow Stem Cells in a Laser Patterned Myocyte CocultureK25HL088262 · NHLBI · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI GAO, BRUCE Z · 2007 to 2011
$715k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR021949NHLBI NIH HHS K25 HL088262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Normal cardiomyocytes are highly dependent on the functional expression of ion channels to form action potentials and electrical coupling with other cells. To fully determine the scientific and therapeutic potential of stem cells for cardiovascular-disease treatment, it is necessary to assess comprehensively the regulation of stem-cell electrical properties during stem cell-cardiomyocyte interaction. It has been reported in the literature that contact with native cardiomyocytes induced and regulated stem-cell cardiogenic differentiation. However, in conventional cell-culture models, the importance of cell-cell contact for stem-cell functional coupling with cardiomyocytes has not been elucidated due to insufficient control of the cell-contact mode of individual cells. Using microfabrication and laser-guided cell micropatterning techniques, we created two biochips with contact-promotive and -preventive microenvironments to systematically study the effect of contact on cardiogenic regulation of stem-cell electrical properties. In contact-promotive biochips, connexin 43 expression was upregulated and relocated to the junction area between one stem cell and one cardiomyocyte. Only stem cells in contact with cardiomyocytes were induced by adjacent cardiomyocytes to acquire electrophysiological properties for action-potential formation similar to that of a cardiomyocyte.

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PMCPMC3489499

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