ArticleWorld journal of stem cells2024
Cardiac differentiation is modulated by anti-apoptotic signals in murine embryonic stem cells.
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- Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms of Cardiomyopathy Development Following Prenatal Hypoxia-Focus on the NO System.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundEmbryonic stem cells (ESCs) serve as a crucial
aimTo investigate the regulatory impact of apoptosis on the early differentiation of ESCs into cardiac cells, using mouse ESC (mESC) models - mESC-B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2), mESC-PIM-2, and mESC-metallothionein-1 (MET-1) - which overexpress the anti-apoptotic genes
methodsmESC-T2 (wild-type), mESC-BCL-2, mESC-PIM-2, and mESC-MET-1 have been used to assess the effect of potentiated apoptotic signals on cardiac differentiation. The hanging drop method was adopted to generate embryoid bodies (EBs) and induce terminal differentiation of mESCs. The size of the generated EBs was measured in each condition compared to the wild type. At the functional level, the percentage of cardiac differentiation was measured by calculating the number of beating cardiomyocytes in the manipulated mESCs compared to the control. At the molecular level, quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was used to assess the mRNA expression of three cardiac markers: Troponin T, GATA4, and NKX2.5. Additionally, troponin T protein expression was evaluated through immunofluorescence and western blot assays.
resultsOur findings showed that the upregulation of
conclusionOur findings revealed that the upregulation of
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