Temporal Control of the WNT Signaling Pathway During Cardiac Differentiation Impacts Upon the Maturation State of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes.

ABSTRACT: Inefficient differentiation and insufficient maturation are barriers to the application of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) for research and therapy. Great strides have been made to the former, and multiple groups have reported cardiac differentiation protocol that can generate hPSC-CMs at high efficiency. Although many such protocols are based on the modulation of the WNT signaling pathway, they differ in their timing and in the WNT inhibitors used. Little is currently known about whether and how conditions of differentiation affect cardiac maturation. Here we adapted multiple cardiac differentiation protocols to improve cost-effectiveness and consistency, and compared the properties of the hPSC-CMs generated. Our results showed that the schedule of differen

SUBMITTER: Tsoi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987729 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature