Abstract

The transplantation of beating cardiomyocytes (BCMs) is expected to be made more effective for serious heart diseases. The identification of the appropriate engineering processes and suitable culture substrates for inducing stem cell differentiation into BCMs is thus indispensable. The differentiation can be divided into three major processes, the cardiac differentiation step, the beating-induction step and the beating-duration step. A protocol with the higher efficiency in all of the steps must be useful. In this study, we separately evaluated the effect of culture substrates at each three step. We clarified that the biological and the physical properties of the culture substrates required at these steps were different. We found useful criteria for effective cardiac cell niche systems design.

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