University Hospital and University of Basel

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Developmental Biology

Induction of Endothelial Differentiation in Cardiac Progenitor Cells Under Low Serum Conditions

Michika Mochizuki^*1, Giacomo Della Verde^*1, Habiba Soliman¹, Otmar Pfister^1,2, Gabriela M. Kuster^1,2

¹Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital and University of Basel, ²Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel

This protocol describes an endothelial differentiation technique for cardiac progenitor cells. It particularly focuses on how serum concentration and cell-seeding density affect the endothelial differentiation potential.