Journal
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 22-30Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-012-9423-2
Keywords
Pluripotent stem cells; Cardiovascular disease; Toxicity screening; Drug discovery
Funding
- NIH [R01 HL113006]
- Fondation Leducq [11CVD02]
- CIRM [RB3-05129]
- AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Drug attrition rates have increased in past years, resulting in growing costs for the pharmaceutical industry and consumers. The reasons for this include the lack of in vitro models that correlate with clinical results and poor preclinical toxicity screening assays. The in vitro production of human cardiac progenitor cells and cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells provides an amenable source of cells for applications in drug discovery, disease modeling, regenerative medicine, and cardiotoxicity screening. In addition, the ability to derive human-induced pluripotent stem cells from somatic tissues, combined with current high-throughput screening and pharmacogenomics, may help realize the use of these cells to fulfill the potential of personalized medicine. In this review, we discuss the use of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for drug discovery and cardiotoxicity screening, as well as current hurdles that must be overcome for wider clinical applications of this promising approach.
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