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A micro-LED array based platform for spatio-temporal optogenetic control of various cardiac models

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46149-1

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This study explores the use of optogenetics to address questions in cardiac research by controlling light. A micro-LED array is incorporated into a fluorescence microscope for controlled light stimulation of cardiac cells and tissues. By applying different patterns of light, calcium waves in cardiac tissues were successfully controlled.
Optogenetics relies on dynamic spatial and temporal control of light to address emerging fundamental and therapeutic questions in cardiac research. In this work, a compact micro-LED array, consisting of 16 x 16 pixels, is incorporated in a widefield fluorescence microscope for controlled light stimulation. We describe the optical design of the system that allows the micro-LED array to fully cover the field of view regardless of the imaging objective used. Various multicellular cardiac models are used in the experiments such as channelrhodopsin-2 expressing aggregates of cardiomyocytes, termed cardiac bodies, and bioartificial cardiac tissues derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells. The pacing efficiencies of the cardiac bodies and bioartificial cardiac tissues were characterized as a function of illumination time, number of switched-on pixels and frequency of stimulation. To demonstrate dynamic stimulation, steering of calcium waves in HL-1 cell monolayer expressing channelrhodopsin-2 was performed by applying different configurations of patterned light. This work shows that micro-LED arrays are powerful light sources for optogenetic control of contraction and calcium waves in cardiac monolayers, multicellular bodies as well as three-dimensional artificial cardiac tissues.

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