Large-scale production of cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells using a highly reproducible small molecule-based differentiation protocol

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Fonoudi, H
Ansari, H
Abbasalizadeh, S
Blue, GM
Aghdami, N
Winlaw, DS
Harvey, RP
Bosman, A
Baharvand, H
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2016
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Maximizing the benefit of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for research, disease modeling, pharmaceutical and clinical applications requires robust methods for the large-scale production of functional cell types, including cardiomyocytes. Here we demonstrate that the temporal manipulation of WNT, TGF-β, and SHH signaling pathways leads to highly efficient cardiomyocyte differentiation of single-cell passaged hPSC lines in both static suspension and stirred suspension bioreactor systems. Employing this strategy resulted in ~ 100% beating spheroids, consistently containing > 80% cardiac troponin T-positive cells after 15 days of culture, validated in multiple hPSC lines. We also report on a variation of this protocol for use with cell lines not currently adapted to single-cell passaging, the success of which has been verified in 42 hPSC lines. Cardiomyocytes generated using these protocols express lineage-specific markers and show expected electrophysiological functionalities. Our protocol presents a simple, efficient and robust platform for the large-scale production of human cardiomyocytes.

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

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113

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Biochemistry and cell biology

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Fonoudi, H; Ansari, H; Abbasalizadeh, S; Blue, GM; Aghdami, N; Winlaw, DS; Harvey, RP; Bosman, A; Baharvand, H, Large-scale production of cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells using a highly reproducible small molecule-based differentiation protocol, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016, (113), pp. e54276

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