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TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 140, Issue 2, Pages 445-461Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu084
Keywords
cardiotoxicity; multi-electrode array; preclinical; proarrhythmia; stem cells; cardiomyocyte
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Human stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hESC-CM) provide a potential model for development of improved assays for preclinical predictive drug safety screening. We have used multi-electrode array (MEA) analysis of hESC-CM to generate multi-parameter data to profile drug impact on cardiomyocyte electrophysiology using a panel of 21 compounds active against key cardiac ion channels. Our study is the first to apply multi-parameter phenotypic profiling and clustering techniques commonly used for high-content imaging and microarray data to the analysis of electrophysiology data obtained by MEA analysis. Our data show good correlations with previous studies in stem cell derived cardiomyocytes and demonstrate improved specificity in compound risk assignment over convention single-parametric approaches. These analyses indicate great potential for multi-parameter MEA data acquired from hESC-CM to enable drug electrophysiological liabilities to be assessed in pre-clinical cardiotoxicity assays, facilitating informed decision making and liability management at the optimum point in drug development.
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