{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["2(5)"],"submitter":["Jung JJ"],"pubmed_abstract":["Therapeutic approaches for \"sick sinus syndrome\" rely on electrical pacemakers, which lack hormone responsiveness and bear hazards such as infection and battery failure. These issues may be overcome via \"biological pacemakers\" derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Here, we show that forward programming of PSCs with the nodal cell inducer TBX3 plus an additional Myh6-promoter-based antibiotic selection leads to cardiomyocyte aggregates consisting of >80% physiologically and pharmacologically functional pacemaker cells. These induced sinoatrial bodies (iSABs) exhibited highly increased beating rates (300-400 bpm), coming close to those found in mouse hearts, and were able to robustly pace myocardium ex vivo. Our study introduces iSABs as highly pure, functional nodal tissue that is der"],"journal":["Stem cell reports"],"pagination":["592-605"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4050488"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Programming and isolation of highly pure physiologically and pharmacologically functional sinus-nodal bodies from pluripotent stem cells."],"pmcid":["PMC4050488"],"pubmed_authors":["Rimmbach C","Franz WM","Dendorfer A","Stieber J","Husse B","Krebs S","David R","Jung JJ","Steinhoff G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Programming and isolation of highly pure physiologically and pharmacologically functional sinus-nodal bodies from pluripotent stem cells.","description":"Therapeutic approaches for \"sick sinus syndrome\" rely on electrical pacemakers, which lack hormone responsiveness and bear hazards such as infection and battery failure. These issues may be overcome via \"biological pacemakers\" derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Here, we show that forward programming of PSCs with the nodal cell inducer TBX3 plus an additional Myh6-promoter-based antibiotic selection leads to cardiomyocyte aggregates consisting of >80% physiologically and pharmacologically functional pacemaker cells. These induced sinoatrial bodies (iSABs) exhibited highly increased beating rates (300-400 bpm), coming close to those found in mouse hearts, and were able to robustly pace myocardium ex vivo. Our study introduces iSABs as highly pure, functional nodal tissue that is der","dates":{"release":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2014 May","modification":"2025-04-26T09:49:54.044Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:29:48Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4050488","cross_references":{"pubmed":["24936448"],"doi":["10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.03.006"]}}