title: Concise Review: Measuring Physiological Responses of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes to Drugs and Disease.
abstract: Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) are of growing interest as models to understand mechanisms underlying genetic disease, identify potential drug targets and for safety pharmacology as they may predict human relevant effects more accurately and inexpensively than animals or other cell models. Crucial to their optimal use are accurate methods to quantify cardiomyocyte phenotypes accurately and reproducibly. Here, we review current methods for determining biophysical parameters of hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) that recapitulate disease and drug responses. Even though hPSC-CMs as currently available are immature, various biophysical methods are nevertheless already providing useful insights into the biology of the human heart and its maladies. Advantages and limitations of assays currently available looking toward applications of hPSC-CMs are described with examples of how they have been used to date. This will help guide the choice of biophysical method to characterize healthy cardiomyocytes and their pathologies in vitro. Stem Cells 2016;34:2008-2015.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Berend J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: van Meer
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Leon G J
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Tertoolen
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Christine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mummery
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000502:physiology*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000378:metabolism*; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
keywords: Cardiac disease modelling; Cardiomyocyte maturation; Cardiomyocyte physiology; Drug testing; Heart; Human; Pluripotent stem cells