Name: pluripotent stem cell derived cardiac cells for myocardial repair
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This work was supported by US Public Health Service grants NIH RO1s HL67828, HL95077, HL114120, and UO1 HL100407-project 4 (to JZ), an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (16SDG30410018) and a Research Voucher Award from University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Clinical and Translational Science (to WZ).

All experimental procedures are performed in accordance with the Animal Guidelines of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1. Differentiating hiPSCs into hiPSC-CMs
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	<li>Coat the wells of a 6-well plate with pre-cooled growth-factor-reduced gelatinous protein mixture at 4 &#176;C for overnight. Aspirate the gelatinous protein mixture before use. Seed the hiPSCs onto the pre-coated plates, and culture the cells (1 x 105 cell per well) at 5% CO2 and 37 &#176;C in ...

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Improved Yield/Purity of hiPSC-CMs
Conventional protocols for differentiating human stem cells into CMs are often limited by low yield and purity; for example, just 35-66% of hESC-CMs obtained via Percoll separation and cardiac body formation expressed slow myosin heavy chain or cTnT6. The purity of differentiated hiPSC-CM populations can be substantially increased by selecting for the expression of a reporter gene that has been linked to the promoter of a CM-specific prot...

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are among the most promising agents for regenerative cell therapy because they can be differentiated into a potentially unlimited range and quantity of cells that are not rejected by the patient&#39;s immune system. However, their capacity for self-replication and differentiation can also lead to tumor formation and, consequently, hiPSCs need to be fully differentiated into specific cell types, such as cardiomyocytes (CMs), endothelial cells (ECs), and smooth muscle cells (SMCs), before administration. One of the simplest and most common methods of cell administration is direct intramyocardial injection, but the number of transplanted cells that are engrafted by the native myocardial tissue is exceptionally low. Much of this attrition can be attributed to the cytotoxic environment of the ischemic tissue; however, when murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were injected directly into the myocardium of uninjured hearts, only ~40% of the 5 million cells delivered were retained for 3-5 hr1, which suggests that a substantial proportion of the administered cells exited the administration site, perhaps because they were squeezed out through the needle track by the high pressures produced during myocardial contraction.
Here, we present novel and substantially more efficient methods for generating hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs)2, endothelial cells (hiPSC-ECs)3, and smooth muscle cells (SMCs)4. Notably, this hiPSC-SMC protocol is the first to mimic the wide range of morphological and functional characteristics observed in somatic SMCs5 by directing the cells toward a predominantly synthetic or contractile SMC phenotype. We also provide a method of cell delivery that improves the engraftment rate of injected cells by creating a cytokine-containing fibrin patch over the injection site. The patch appears to improve both cell retention, by sealing the needle track to prevent the cells from exiting the myocardium, and cell survival, by releasing insulin-like growth factor (IGF) over a period of at least three days.

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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:163px;">Protocol 1</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">mTeSR1 medium</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>5850</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Growth-factor-reduced matrigel</td>
			<td>Corning lifescience</td>
			<td>356231</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Y-27632</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>72304</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">B27 supplement, serum free</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>17504044</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">RPMI1640</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>11875-119</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Activin A</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>338-AC-010</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">BMP-4</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>314-BP-010</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">bFGF</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>232-FA-025</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Collagenase IV</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>NC0217889</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="62" style="height:62px;width:163px;">Hanks Balanced Salt Solution (Dextrose, KCl, KH2PO4, NaHCO3, NaCl, Na2HPO4 anhydrous)</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>14175079</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Fetal Bovine Serum</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>10438018</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">6-well plate</td>
			<td>Corning Lifescience</td>
			<td>356721</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">10cm dish</td>
			<td>Corning Lifescience</td>
			<td>354732</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Cell incubator</td>
			<td>Panasonic</td>
			<td>MCO-18AC</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Materials</td>
			<td>Company</td>
			<td>Catalog Number</td>
			<td>Comments</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 2</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Versene</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>15040066</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Fibrinogen</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>F8630-5g</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Thrombin</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>T7009-1KU</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">EMB2 medium</td>
			<td>Lonza</td>
			<td>CC-3156</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">VEGF</td>
			<td>ProSpec-Tany</td>
			<td>CYT-241</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">EPO</td>
			<td>Life Technologies</td>
			<td>PHC9431</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">TGF-&#223;</td>
			<td>Peprotech</td>
			<td>100-21C</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">EGM2-MV medium</td>
			<td>Lonza</td>
			<td>CC-4147</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">SB-431542</td>
			<td>Selleckchem</td>
			<td>S1067</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CD31</td>
			<td>BD Bioscience</td>
			<td>BDB555445</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CD144</td>
			<td>BD Bioscience</td>
			<td>560411</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">15 mL centrifuge tube</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>12565269</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Eppendorff Centrifuge</td>
			<td>Eppendorf</td>
			<td>5702R</td>
			<td></td>
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		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Materials</td>
			<td>Company</td>
			<td>Catalog Number</td>
			<td>Comments</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 3</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CHIR99021</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>720542</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">PDGF-&#223;</td>
			<td>Prospec</td>
			<td>CYT-501-10ug</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Materials</td>
			<td>Company</td>
			<td>Catalog Number</td>
			<td>Comments</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 4</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Olive oil</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>O1514</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Gelatin</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>G9391</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Acetone</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>179124</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Ethanol</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>BP2818100</td>
			<td></td>
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		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Glutaraldehyde</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>G5882</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Glycine</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>G8898</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">IGF</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>291-G1-01M</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Bovine serum albumin</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>15561020</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Heating plate</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>SP88850200</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Water bath</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>15-462-10Q</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Materials</td>
			<td>Company</td>
			<td>Catalog Number</td>
			<td>Comments</td>
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		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 5</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CaCl2</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>223506</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;"><img alt="ezh" src="/files/ftp_upload/55142/ezh.jpg" />-aminocaproic acid</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>A0420000</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">MEM medium</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>12561-056</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Syringe</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>1482748</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Anesthesia ventilator</td>
			<td>Datex-Ohmeda</td>
			<td>47810</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Anesthesia ventilator</td>
			<td>Ohio Medical</td>
			<td>V5A</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Defibrillator</td>
			<td>Physiol Control</td>
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pluripotent stem cell derived cardiac cells for myocardial repair

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) must be fully differentiated into specific cell types before administration, but conventional protocols for differentiating hiPSCs into cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs), endothelial cells (hiPSC-ECs), and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are often limited by low yield, purity, and/or poor phenotypic stability. Here, we present novel protocols for generating hiPSC-CMs, -ECs, and -SMCs that are substantially more efficient than conventional methods, as well as a method for combining cell injection with a cytokine-containing patch created over the site of administration. The patch improves both the retention of the injected cells, by sealing the needle track to prevent the cells from being squeezed out of the myocardium, and cell survival, by releasing insulin-like growth factor (IGF) over an extended period. In a swine model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, the rate of engraftment was more than two-fold greater when the cells were administered with the cytokine-containing patch comparing to the cells without patch, and treatment with both the cells and the patch, but not with the cells alone, was associated with significant improvements in cardiac function and infarct size.

Characterization of Differentiated hiPSC-CMs, -ECs, and -SMCs
The differential capacity of hiPSCs were evaluated2,3,4. Flow cytometry analyses of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) expression suggest that the purity of the final hiPSC-CM population can exceed 90% (Figure 1A, 1B, panel B1). Nearly all of the cells e...

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Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiac Cells for Myocardial Repair

We present three novel and more efficient protocols for differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells into cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells and a delivery method that improves the engraftment of transplanted cells by combining cell injection with patch-mediated cytokine delivery.

Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) must be fully differentiated into specific cell types before administration, but conventional protocols for ...

The overall goal of this video is to introduce a technique for differentiating human pluripotent stem cells into cardiomyocytes, and to demonstrate the use of these cells for studying myocardial repair after an ischemia reperfusion injury. This method can help answer key questions about engineering heart tissue with human iPS cell derived from cardiac cells for myocardial repair. The main advantage of this procedure is that it allows scientists to collect purified cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells, and endothelial cells, and generate heart tissue with these progenitor cells.Ling Gao is a post-doc in Doctor Zhang's own lab in UAB and Greg Walcott is a cardiologist in UAB hospital. Trina is a MRI specialist in UAB hospital. To induce pluripotent stem cells into cardiomyocytes, first, coat the wells of a six-well plate with growth-factor reduced gelatinous protein mixture cooled to 4 degrees Celsius.Then, refrigerate the plate overnight at 4 degrees Celsius. The next day, aspirate the gelatinous protein mixture and seed the plates with 100 million stem cells per well. Never keep the stem cells out of the incubator for more than 15 minutes.Also, always use fresh media. In this case, use mTeSR1 medium, supplemented with 10 micromolar of ROCK inhibitor. Then, culture the cells with 5%carbon dioxide at 37 degrees Celsius, and refresh the medium daily by gently aspirating away the old medium without touching the cells, and using a transfer pipette to apply fresh medium.Grow the cells until they are 90%confluent. Three days into the differentiation process, start checking for clusters of contracting cells. As soon as contractions are noted, which can take a week or so, collect the cells.Count the contracting cells using a hemocytometer, and then culture the cells on 10 centimeter plates at a concentration of one million cells per milliliter. It is also possible to make endothelial cells from stem cells, as well as smooth muscle cells. The processes are different, but are carefully detailed in the text protocol.First, surgically induce a myocardial infarction in a swine heart. Briefly perform a fourth intercostal thoracotomy to expose the left anterior descending coronary artery. Then, occlude the coronary artery using a ligature for 60 minutes.Defibrillate the heart as necessary. Suspend five milligrams of microspheres in one milliliter of fibrinogen solution, and load this into a syringe. Third, fill another syringe with one milliliter of thrombin solution.After an hour has passed, remove the ligature used to create the myocardial infarction. Then, position a plastic ring on the epicardium of the infarcted region, and simultaneously inject the microspheres and fibrinogen and the thrombin solutions into the ring. Allow the mixture of solutions to solidify, which takes about 30 seconds.This makes the patch. Then, insert the needle of the cell-containing syringe through the patch into the infarcted myocardium and inject the cells. Now, close the muscle layers, subcutaneous tissue, and the chest wall with 30 or 20 Monocryl suture, depending on the animal's size.One week and four weeks after the procedure, evaluate the animal's cardiac function using a cardiac MRI. As described by the first presented protocol, human pluripotent stem cells were differentiated into cardiomyocytes. To assess their purity, flow cytometry for cardiac troponin T showed it was present in excess of 90%of cells.Other markers were also observed. Nearly all of the cells expressed slow myocin heavy chain, and nearly all the cells expressed alpha sarcomeric actin. About one quarter of the cells expressed 2v isoform of myosin light chain, a marker for ventricular cardiomyocytes.In comparing stem cell lines, it was found that the efficiency of the differentiation was substantially higher with cells from the GRiPS line than from the PCBC16iPS line. Using the patch-mediated cell transplantation protocol, a mixture of cells, made up of differentiated cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells was injected into the injured tissue. Four weeks later, more cells were retained with the patch than without it.Within one week, treatment using the cell injection with the patch resulted in the most improvement of the infarct size. Also, there was no appreciable difference in injecting with just cardiomyocytes compared to injecting with three cell types. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding on how to differentiate human iPS cells into three different cardiac ligature cells, including cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells, and endothelial cells.You should also have a good understanding of how to generate human heart tissue with the progenitor cells for myocardial repair. Since the development, this technique has advanced investigations on myocardial repair and stem cell tissue engineering. It should be noted that when attempting this procedure, it is very important to use high quantity of iPS cells and their cardiac derivatives.

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Generation of Murine Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Aggregates Based on ES-Cell-Programming in Combination with Myh6-Promoter-Selection

Treatment of the &#8220;sick sinus syndrome&#8221; is based on artificial pacemakers. These bear hazards such as battery failure and infections. Moreover, they lack hormone responsiveness and the overall procedure is cost-intensive. &#8220;Biological pacemakers&#8221; generated from PSCs may become an alternative, yet the typical content of pacemaker cells in Embryoid Bodies (EBs) is extremely low. The described protocol combines &#8220;forward programming&#8221; of murine PSCs via the sinus node inducer TBX3 with Myh6-promoter based antibiotic selection. This yields cardiomyocyte aggregates consistent of &#62;80% physiologically functional pacemaker cells. These &#8220;induced-sinoatrial-bodies&#8221; (&#8220;iSABs&#8221;) are spontaneously contracting at yet unreached frequencies (400-500 bpm) corresponding to nodal cells isolated from mouse hearts and are able to pace murine myocardium ex vivo. Using the described protocol highly pure sinus nodal single cells can be generated which e.g. can be used for in vitro drug testing. Furthermore, the iSABs generated according to this protocol may become a crucial step towards heart tissue engineering.

This protocol describes how to produce functional sinus nodal tissue from murine pluripotent stem cells (PSC). T-Box3 (TBX3) overexpression plus cardiac Myosin-heavy-chain (Myh6) promoter antibiotic selection leads to highly pure pacemaker cell aggregates. These &#8220;Induced-sinoatrial-bodies&#8221; (&#8220;iSABs&#8221;) contain over 80% pacemaker cells, show highly increased beating rates and are able to pace myocardium ex vivo.

Treatment of the &#8220;sick sinus syndrome&#8221; is based on artificial pacemakers. These bear hazards such as battery failure and infections. Moreover, ...

Generation of Integration-free Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Hair-derived Keratinocytes

Recent advances in reprogramming allow us to turn somatic cells into human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Disease modeling using patient-specific hiPSCs allows the study of the underlying mechanism for pathogenesis, also providing a platform for the development of in vitro drug screening and gene therapy to improve treatment options. The promising potential of hiPSCs for regenerative medicine is also evident from the increasing number of publications (>7000) on iPSCs in recent years. Various cell types from distinct lineages have been successfully used for hiPSC generation, including skin fibroblasts, hematopoietic cells and epidermal keratinocytes. While skin biopsies and blood collection are routinely performed in many labs as a source of somatic cells for the generation of hiPSCs, the collection and subsequent derivation of hair keratinocytes are less commonly used. Hair-derived keratinocytes represent a non-invasive approach to obtain cell samples from patients. Here we outline a simple non-invasive method for the derivation of keratinocytes from plucked hair. We also provide instructions for maintenance of keratinocytes and subsequent reprogramming to generate integration-free hiPSC using episomal vectors.

This manuscript provides a step-by-step procedure for the derivation and maintenance of human keratinocytes from plucked hair and subsequent generation of integration-free human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) by episomal vectors.

Recent advances in reprogramming allow us to turn somatic cells into human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Disease modeling using ...

Feeder-free Derivation of Melanocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent a platform to study human development in vitro under both normal and disease conditions. Researchers can direct the differentiation of hPSCs into the cell type of interest by manipulating the culture conditions to recapitulate signals seen during development. One such cell type is the melanocyte, a pigment-producing cell of neural crest (NC) origin responsible for protecting the skin against UV irradiation. This protocol presents an extension of a currently available in vitro Neural Crest differentiation protocol from hPSCs to further differentiate NC into fully pigmented melanocytes. Melanocyte precursors can be enriched from the Neural Crest protocol via a timed exposure to activators of WNT, BMP, and EDN3 signaling under dual-SMAD-inhibition conditions. The resultant melanocyte precursors are then purified and matured into fully pigmented melanocytes by culture in a selective medium. The resultant melanocytes are fully pigmented and stain appropriately for proteins characteristic of mature melanocytes.

This work describes an in vitro differentiation protocol to produce pigmented, mature melanocytes from human pluripotent stem cells via a neural crest and melanoblast intermediate stage using a feeder-free, 25 day protocol.

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent a platform to study human development in vitro under both normal and disease conditions. Researchers can ...

Large-Scale Production of Cardiomyocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Using a Highly Reproducible Small Molecule-Based Differentiation Protocol

Maximizing the benefit of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for research, disease modeling, pharmaceutical and clinical applications requires robust methods for the large-scale production of functional cell types, including cardiomyocytes. Here we demonstrate that the temporal manipulation of WNT, TGF-&#946;, and SHH signaling pathways leads to highly efficient cardiomyocyte differentiation of single-cell passaged hPSC lines in both static suspension and stirred suspension bioreactor systems. Employing this strategy resulted in ~ 100% beating spheroids, consistently containing &#62; 80% cardiac troponin T-positive cells after 15 days of culture, validated in multiple hPSC lines. We also report on a variation of this protocol for use with cell lines not currently adapted to single-cell passaging, the success of which has been verified in 42 hPSC lines. Cardiomyocytes generated using these protocols express lineage-specific markers and show expected electrophysiological functionalities. Our protocol presents a simple, efficient and robust platform for the large-scale production of human cardiomyocytes.

Here, we present a robust, fast and scalable cardiomyocyte differentiation protocol for human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Cardiomyocytes derived using this large-scale method can provide sufficient cell numbers for their effective use in human cardiovascular disease modeling, high-throughput drug screening, and potentially clinical applications.

Maximizing the benefit of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for research, disease modeling, pharmaceutical and clinical applications requires robust ...

Differentiating Chondrocytes from Peripheral Blood-derived Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

In this study, we used peripheral blood cells (PBCs) as seed cells to produce chondrocytes via induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in an integration-free method. Following embryoid body (EB) formation and fibroblastic cell expansion, the iPSCs are induced for chondrogenic differentiation for 21 days under serum-free and xeno-free conditions. After chondrocyte induction, the phenotypes of the cells are evaluated by morphological, immunohistochemical, and biochemical analyses, as well as by the quantitative real-time PCR examination of chondrogenic differentiation markers. The chondrogenic pellets show positive alcian blue and toluidine blue staining. The immunohistochemistry of collagen II and X staining is also positive. The sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG) content and the chondrogenic differentiation markers COLLAGEN 2 (COL2), COLLAGEN 10 (COL10), SOX9, and AGGRECAN are significantly upregulated in chondrogenic pellets compared to hiPSCs and fibroblastic cells. These results suggest that PBCs can be used as seed cells to generate iPSCs for cartilage repair, which is patient-specific and cost-effective.

We present a protocol to generate a chondrogenic lineage from human peripheral blood (PB) via induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using an integration-free method, which includes embryoid body (EB) formation, fibroblastic cells expansion, and chondrogenic induction.

In this study, we used peripheral blood cells (PBCs) as seed cells to produce chondrocytes via induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in an ...

Chondrogenic Pellet Formation from Cord Blood-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Human articular cartilage lacks the ability to repair itself. Cartilage degeneration is thus treated not by curative but by conservative treatments. Currently, efforts are being made to regenerate damaged cartilage with ex vivo expanded chondrocytes or bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). However, the restricted viability and instability of these cells limit their application in cartilage reconstruction. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have received scientific attention as a new alternative for regenerative applications. With unlimited self-renewal ability and multipotency, hiPSCs have been highlighted as a new replacement cell source for cartilage repair. However, obtaining a high quantity of high-quality chondrogenic pellets is a major challenge to their clinical application. In this study, we used embryoid body (EB)-derived outgrowth cells for chondrogenic differentiation. Successful chondrogenesis was confirmed by PCR and staining with alcian blue, toluidine blue, and antibodies against collagen types I and II (COL1A1 and COL2A1, respectively). We provide a detailed method for the differentiation of cord blood mononuclear cell-derived iPSCs (CBMC-hiPSCs) into chondrogenic pellets.

Here, we propose a protocol for chondrogenic differentiation from cord blood mononuclear cell-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Human articular cartilage lacks the ability to repair itself. Cartilage degeneration is thus treated not by curative but by conservative treatments. ...

Rapid, Directed Differentiation of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells from Human Embryonic or Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

We describe a robust method to direct the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE). The purpose of providing a detailed and thorough protocol is to clearly demonstrate each step and to make this readily available to researchers in the field. This protocol results in a homogenous layer of RPE with minimal or no manual dissection needed. The method presented here has been shown to be effective for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and human embryonic stem cells. Additionally, we describe methods for cryopreservation of intermediate cell banks that allow long-term storage. RPE generated using this protocol might be useful for iPSC disease-in-a-dish modeling or clinical application.

This protocol describes how to produce retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) from pluripotent stem cells. The method uses a combination of growth factors and small molecules to direct the differentiation of stem cells into immature RPE in fourteen days and mature, functional RPE after three months.

We describe a robust method to direct the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE). The purpose of providing ...

Single-cell Photoconversion in Living Intact Zebrafish

Animal and plant tissue is composed of distinct populations of cells. These cells interact over time to build and maintain the tissue and can cause disease when disrupted. Scientists have developed clever techniques to investigate characteristics and natural dynamics of these cells within intact tissue by expressing fluorescent proteins in subsets of cells. However, at times, experiments require more selected visualization of cells within the tissue, sometimes at the single-cell or population-of-cells manner. To achieve this and visualize single cells within a population of cells, scientists have utilized single-cell photoconversion of fluorescent proteins. To demonstrate this technique, we show here how to direct UV light to an Eos-expressing cell of interest in an intact, living zebrafish. We then image those photoconverted Eos+ cells 24 h later to determine how they changed in the tissue. We describe two techniques: single cell photoconversion and photoconversions of populations of cell. These techniques can be used to visualize cell-cell interactions, cell-fate and differentiation, and cell migrations, making it a technique that is applicable in numerous biological questions.

Here, we present a protocol to show how cell photoconversion is achieved through UV exposure to specific areas expressing the fluorescent protein, Eos, in living animals.

Animal and plant tissue is composed of distinct populations of cells. These cells interact over time to build and maintain the tissue and can cause ...

Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Hepatocyte-like Cells for Drug Discovery

The ability to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) provides new opportunities to study inborn errors in hepatic metabolism. However, to provide a platform that supports the identification of small molecules that can potentially be used to treat liver disease, the procedure requires a culture format that is compatible with screening thousands of compounds. Here, we describe a protocol using completely defined culture conditions, which allow the reproducible differentiation of human iPSCs to hepatocyte-like cells in 96-well tissue culture plates. We also provide an example of using the platform to screen compounds for their ability to lower Apolipoprotein B (APOB) produced from iPSC-derived hepatocytes generated from a familial hypercholesterolemia patient. The availability of a platform that is compatible with drug discovery should allow researchers to identify novel therapeutics for diseases that affect the liver.

The protocol presented here describes a platform for identifying small molecules for the treatment of liver disease. A step-by-step description is presented detailing how to differentiate iPSCs into cells with hepatocyte characteristics in 96-well plates, and to use the cells to screen for small molecules with potential therapeutic activity.

The ability to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) provides new opportunities to study inborn ...

A Familial Hypercholesterolemia Human Liver Chimeric Mouse Model Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Hepatocytes

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is mostly caused by low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mutations and results in an increased risk of early-onset cardiovascular disease due to marked elevation of LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) in blood. Statins are the first line of lipid-lowering drugs for treating FH and other types of hypercholesterolemia, but new approaches are emerging, in particular PCSK9 antibodies, which are now being tested in clinical trials. To explore novel therapeutic approaches for FH, either new drugs or new formulations, we need appropriate in vivo models. However, differences in the lipid metabolic profiles compared to humans are a key problem of the available animal models of FH. To address this issue, we have generated a human liver chimeric mouse model using FH induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes (iHeps). We used Ldlr-/-/Rag2-/-/Il2rg-/- (LRG) mice to avoid immune rejection of transplanted human cells and to assess the effect of LDLR-deficient iHeps in an LDLR null background. Transplanted FH iHeps could repopulate 5-10% of the LRG mouse liver based on human albumin staining. Moreover, the engrafted iHeps responded to lipid-lowering drugs and recapitulated clinical observations of increased efficacy of PCSK9 antibodies compared to statins. Our human liver chimeric model could thus be useful for preclinical testing of new therapies to FH. Using the same protocol, similar human liver chimeric mice for other FH genetic variants, or mutations corresponding to other inherited liver diseases, may also be generated.

Here, we present a protocol to generate a human liver chimeric mouse model of familial hypercholesterolemia using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes. This is a valuable model for testing new therapies for hypercholesterolemia.

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is mostly caused by low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mutations and results in an increased risk of early-onset ...