ArticleStem cells and development2013
Structural and functional maturation of cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells.
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463 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 736 citations in OpenAlex.
- Engineering the maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Pooled it
- Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes as an in vitro model in toxicology: strengths and weaknesses for hazard identification and risk characterization.Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology · 2021Pooled it
- Click chemistry-modified cardiomyocytes enhance cardiac contractility and prevent remodeling in ischemia-reperfusion injured hearts.Bioactive materials · 2027Article
- Engineering the geriatric heart to model HFpEF.Heart failure reviews · 2026Review
- Human cardiovascular organoids: Biomedical applications and ethical challenges.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026Review
- TGF-β signalling drives chemotaxis of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in response to MI stimulus.Basic research in cardiology · 2026Article
- CMAC: A deep learning framework for absolute cardiomyocyte transcriptional age estimation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Engineering the Cellular Microenvironment for Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Cardiac Differentiation: Beyond Wnt Signaling.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Structural and functional benchmarking of monolayer- and bioreactor-generated hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.APL bioengineering · 2026Article
- Stage-associated differences in injury and stress responses of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes under macrophage-derived inflammatory stimulation.Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Platforms for Cardiac-Related Pain Research: Molecular Mechanisms, Experimental Models, and Therapeutic Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- High and intermittent hydrostatic pressure promotes maturation of engineered cardiac tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells.Stem cell reports · 2026Article
- Metabolic fatty acid substrates enhance the structural and mechanical performance of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026Article
- Oxygen-generating Microparticles Enhance Viability and Functionality of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes for Myocardial Infarction Therapy.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026Article
- Cryopreservation alters contractile function of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Flexible Sensing Technology for Myocardial Tissue Contractile Force With Integrated Magnetically Actuated Mechanical Stimulation.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Article
- Circumferential strain recovery after human cardiomyocyte transplantation in minipigs using a novel frequency-based method for myocardial tagging quantification.Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2026Article
- Review
- Accelerated Intrinsic Beating Rate in Heterogeneously Coupled Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Can Underlie Focal Ventricular Tachycardia in Regenerative Therapy.Journal of precision medicine (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Human plasma-like medium enhances structural and metabolic maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Despite preclinical studies demonstrating the functional benefit of transplanting human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (PSC-CMs) into damaged myocardium, the ability of these immature cells to adopt a more adult-like cardiomyocyte (CM) phenotype remains uncertain. To address this issue, we tested the hypothesis that prolonged in vitro culture of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)- and human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived CMs would result in the maturation of their structural and contractile properties to a more adult-like phenotype. Compared to their early-stage counterparts (PSC-CMs after 20-40 days of in vitro differentiation and culture), late-stage hESC-CMs and hiPSC-CMs (80-120 days) showed dramatic differences in morphology, including increased cell size and anisotropy, greater myofibril density and alignment, sarcomeres visible by bright-field microscopy, and a 10-fold increase in the fraction of multinucleated CMs. Ultrastructural analysis confirmed improvements in the myofibrillar density, alignment, and morphology. We measured the contractile performance of late-stage hESC-CMs and hiPSC-CMs and noted a doubling in shortening magnitude with slowed contraction kinetics compared to the early-stage cells. We then examined changes in the calcium-handling properties of these matured CMs and found an increase in calcium release and reuptake rates with no change in the maximum amplitude. Finally, we performed electrophysiological assessments in hESC-CMs and found that late-stage myocytes have hyperpolarized maximum diastolic potentials, increased action potential amplitudes, and faster upstroke velocities. To correlate these functional changes with gene expression, we performed qPCR and found a robust induction of the key cardiac structural markers, including β-myosin heavy chain and connexin-43, in late-stage hESC-CMs and hiPSC-CMs. These findings suggest that PSC-CMs are capable of slowly maturing to more closely resemble the phenotype of adult CMs and may eventually possess the potential to regenerate the lost myocardium with robust de novo force-producing tissue.
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