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ReviewBritish journal of pharmacology2017

Integrating cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells in safety pharmacology: has the time come?

Luca Sala, Milena Bellin, Christine L Mummery

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Review in British journal of pharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
71citing papers in PubMed
13.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Advances in human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-based disease modelling in cardiogenetics.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2025
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  17. shRNAs Targeting a CommonInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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11 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luca SalaDepartment of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, ZA, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-6632
Milena BellinDepartment of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, ZA, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5380-6743
Christine L MummeryDepartment of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, ZA, The Netherlands.
Leiden University Medical Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiotoxicity is a severe side effect of drugs that induce structural or electrophysiological changes in heart muscle cells. As a result, the heart undergoes failure and potentially lethal arrhythmias. It is still a major reason for drug failure in preclinical and clinical phases of drug discovery. Current methods for predicting cardiotoxicity are based on guidelines that combine electrophysiological analysis of cell lines expressing ion channels ectopically in vitro with animal models and clinical trials. Although no new cases of drugs linked to lethal arrhythmias have been reported since the introduction of these guidelines in 2005, their limited predictive power likely means that potentially valuable drugs may not reach clinical practice. Human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) are now emerging as potentially more predictive alternatives, particularly for the early phases of preclinical research. However, these cells are phenotypically immature and culture and assay methods not standardized, which could be a hurdle to the development of predictive computational models and their implementation into the drug discovery pipeline, in contrast to the ambitions of the comprehensive pro-arrhythmia in vitro assay (CiPA) initiative. Here, we review present and future preclinical cardiotoxicity screening and suggest possible hPSC-CM-based strategies that may help to move the field forward. Coordinated efforts by basic scientists, companies and hPSC banks to standardize experimental conditions for generating reliable and reproducible safety indices will be helpful not only for cardiotoxicity prediction but also for precision medicine. LINKED ARTICLES: This article is part of a themed section on New Insights into Cardiotoxicity Caused by Chemotherapeutic Agents. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v174.21/issuetoc.

Indexed as

AnimalsArrhythmias, CardiacCardiotoxicityDrug DesignDrug DiscoveryDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalElectrophysiological PhenomenaHumansMyocytes, CardiacPluripotent Stem Cells

Identifiers

PMID27641943
PMCPMC5647193
OpenAlexW2523625328

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