Perspective on human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in heart disease modeling and repair

Qiang Li, Jia Wang, Qiang Wu, Nan Cao*, Huang Tian Yang*

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Abstract

Heart diseases (HDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite remarkable clinical progress made, current therapies cannot restore the lost myocardium, and the correlation of genotype to phenotype of many HDs is poorly modeled. In the past two decades, with the rapid developments of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) biology and technology that allow the efficient preparation of cardiomyocytes from individual patients, tremendous efforts have been made for using hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes in preclinical and clinical cardiac therapy as well as in dissection of HD mechanisms to develop new methods for disease prediction and treatment. However, their applications have been hampered by several obstacles. Here, we discuss recent advances, remaining challenges, and the potential solutions to advance this field.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1121-1128
Number of pages8
JournalStem Cells Translational Medicine
Volume9
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • cardiac
  • cell transplantation
  • differentiation
  • embryonic stem cells (ESCs)
  • induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
  • pluripotent stem cells
  • tissue regeneration

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