
Ban et al., Theranostics, 2017
- Post by: admin
- 10:34PM May 17, 2017
- No Comment
Current Strategies and Challenges for Purification of Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Abstract
Cardiomyocytes (CMs) derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are considered a most promising option for cell-based cardiac repair. Hence, various protocols have been developed for differentiating hPSCs into CMs. Despite remarkable improvement in the generation of hPSC-CMs, without purification, these protocols can only generate mixed cell populations including undifferentiated hPSCs or non-CMs, which may elicit adverse outcomes. Therefore, one of the major challenges for clinical use of hPSC-CMs is the development of efficient isolation techniques that allow enrichment of hPSC-CMs. In this review, we will discuss diverse strategies that have been developed to enrich hPSC-CMs. We will describe major characteristics of individual hPSC-CM purification methods including their scientific principles, advantages, limitations, and needed improvements. Development of a comprehensive system which can enrich hPSC-CMs will be ultimately useful for cell therapy for diseased hearts, human cardiac disease modeling, cardiac toxicity screening, and cardiac tissue engineering.
KEYWORDS:
Cardiomyocytes; hPSCs
- PMID:
- 28638487
- PMCID:
- PMC5479288
- DOI:
- 10.7150/thno.19427