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Morpho-functional comparison of differentiation protocols to create iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Aleksandra Nijak, Eline Simons, Bert Vandendriessche, Dieter Van de Sande, Erik Fransen, Ewa Sieliwończyk, Ilse Van Gucht, Emeline Van Craenenbroeck, Johan Saenen, Hein Heidbuchel and 7 more

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Article in Biology open, 2022. 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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0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Aleksandra NijakCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-5574-9279
Eline SimonsCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Bert VandendriesscheCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Dieter Van de SandeLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Cellular and Network Excitability, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
Erik FransenStatUa Center of Statistics, University of Antwerp 2650, Antwerp, Belgium.
Ewa SieliwończykCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Ilse Van GuchtCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Emeline Van CraenenbroeckDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Johan SaenenDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Hein HeidbuchelDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Peter PonsaertsLaboratory of Experimental Hematology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
Alain J LabroLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Cellular and Network Excitability, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
Dirk SnydersLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Cellular and Network Excitability, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
Winnok De VosLaboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0960-6781
Dorien SchepersCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Maaike AlaertsCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.
Bart L LoeysCenter of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp & Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp 2650, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3703-9518
University of Antwerp · BERadboud University Nijmegen · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC-CMs) offer an attractive platform for cardiovascular research. Patient-specific iPSC-CMs are very useful for studying disease development, and bear potential for disease diagnostics, prognosis evaluation and development of personalized treatment. Several monolayer-based serum-free protocols have been described for the differentiation of iPSCs into cardiomyocytes, but data on their performance are scarce. In this study, we evaluated two protocols that are based on temporal modulation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway for iPSC-CM differentiation from four iPSC lines, including two control individuals and two patients carrying an SCN5A mutation. The SCN5A gene encodes the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav1.5) and loss-of-function mutations can cause the cardiac arrhythmia Brugada syndrome. We performed molecular characterization of the obtained iPSC-CMs by immunostaining for cardiac specific markers and by expression analysis of selected cardiac structural and ionic channel protein-encoding genes with qPCR. We also investigated cell growth morphology, contractility and survival of the iPSC-CMs after dissociation. Finally, we performed electrophysiological characterization of the cells, focusing on the action potential (AP) and calcium transient (CT) characteristics using patch-clamping and optical imaging, respectively. Based on our comprehensive morpho-functional analysis, we concluded that both tested protocols result in a high percentage of contracting CMs. Moreover, they showed acceptable survival and cell quality after dissociation (>50% of cells with a smooth cell membrane, possible to seal during patch-clamping). Both protocols generated cells presenting with typical iPSC-CM AP and CT characteristics, although one protocol (that involves sequential addition of CHIR99021 and Wnt-C59) rendered iPSC-CMs, which were more accessible for patch-clamp and calcium transient experiments and showed an expression pattern of cardiac-specific markers more similar to this observed in human heart left ventricle samples.

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Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsAction PotentialsCell DifferentiationElectrophysiological PhenomenaHumansMyocytes, CardiacArrhythmia modellingCardiomyocyte differentiationiPSC-CMs

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PMID35195246
PMCPMC8890088
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