Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32770183›Full record

ArticleEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2020

Repolarization instability and arrhythmia by IKr block in single human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and 2D monolayers.

Cristina Altrocchi, Tessa de Korte, Joyce Bernardi, Roel L H M G Spätjens, Stefan R Braam, Jordi Heijman, Antonio Zaza, Paul G A Volders

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. 25 years of basic and translational science in EP Europace: novel insights into arrhythmia mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023
    Review
  4. Article
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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Cristina AltrocchiDepartment of Cardiology, CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Tessa de KorteNcardia, Leiden 2333 BD, The Netherlands.
Joyce BernardiDepartment of Cardiology, CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Roel L H M G SpätjensDepartment of Cardiology, CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Stefan R BraamNcardia, Leiden 2333 BD, The Netherlands.
Jordi HeijmanDepartment of Cardiology, CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Antonio ZazaLaboratory of Cardiac Cellular Physiology, Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Paul G A VoldersDepartment of Cardiology, CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center · USLeiden University Medical Center · NLUniversity of Milano-Bicocca · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsHuman-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have proven valuable for studies in drug discovery and safety, although limitations regarding their structural and electrophysiological characteristics persist. In this study, we investigated the electrophysiological properties of Pluricyte® CMs, a commercially available hiPSC-CMs line with a ventricular phenotype, and assessed arrhythmia incidence by IKr block at the single-cell and 2D monolayer level. METHODS AND

resultsAction potentials were measured at different pacing frequencies, using dynamic clamp. Through voltage-clamp experiments, we determined the properties of INa, IKr, and ICaL. Intracellular Ca2+ measurements included Ca2+-transients at baseline and during caffeine perfusion. Effects of IKr block were assessed in single hiPSC-CMs and 2D monolayers (multi-electrode arrays). Action-potential duration (APD) and its rate dependence in Pluricyte® CMs were comparable to those reported for native human CMs. INa, IKr, and ICaL revealed amplitudes, kinetics, and voltage dependence of activation/inactivation similar to other hiPSC-CM lines and, to some extent, to native CMs. Near-physiological Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release, response to caffeine and excitation-contraction coupling gain characterized the cellular Ca2+-handling. Dofetilide prolonged the APD and field-potential duration, and induced early afterdepolarizations. Beat-to-beat variability of repolarization duration increased significantly before the first arrhythmic events in single Pluricyte® CMs and 2D monolayers, and predicted pending arrhythmias better than action-potential prolongation.

conclusionTaking their ion-current characteristics and Ca2+ handling into account, Pluricyte® CMs are suitable for in vitro studies on action potentials and field potentials. Beat-to-beat variability of repolarization duration proved useful to evaluate the dynamics of repolarization instability and demonstrated its significance as proarrhythmic marker in hiPSC-CMs during IKr block.

Indexed as

Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsAction PotentialsArrhythmias, CardiacElectrophysiological PhenomenaHumansMyocytes, CardiacArrhythmia inducibilityBeat-to-beat variability of repolarizationCalcium handlingHuman-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytesIon channelMulti-electrode arrays

Identifiers

PMID32770183
PMCPMC7478319
OpenAlexW3048030771

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.