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>
			<td style="width:180px;"></td>
			<td style="width:155px;"></td>
			<td style="width:64px;"></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">mTeSR1 medium</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>5850</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Growth-factor-reduced matrigel</td>
			<td>Corning lifescience</td>
			<td>356231</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Y-27632</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>72304</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">B27 supplement, serum free</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>17504044</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">RPMI1640</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>11875-119</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Activin A</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>338-AC-010</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">BMP-4</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>314-BP-010</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">bFGF</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td>232-FA-025</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Collagenase IV</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>NC0217889</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="62">
			<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>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Fetal Bovine Serum</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>10438018</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">6-well plate</td>
			<td>Corning Lifescience</td>
			<td>356721</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">10cm dish</td>
			<td>Corning Lifescience</td>
			<td>354732</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Cell incubator</td>
			<td>Panasonic</td>
			<td>MCO-18AC</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>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 2</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Versene</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>15040066</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Fibrinogen</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>F8630-5g</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Thrombin</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>T7009-1KU</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">EMB2 medium</td>
			<td>Lonza</td>
			<td>CC-3156</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">VEGF</td>
			<td>ProSpec-Tany</td>
			<td>CYT-241</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">EPO</td>
			<td>Life Technologies</td>
			<td>PHC9431</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<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>
		<tr height="20">
			<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>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Materials</td>
			<td>Company</td>
			<td>Catalog Number</td>
			<td>Comments</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 3</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CHIR99021</td>
			<td>Stem cell technologies</td>
			<td>720542</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">PDGF-&#223;</td>
			<td>Prospec</td>
			<td>CYT-501-10ug</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>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 4</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Olive oil</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>O1514</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Gelatin</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>G9391</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Acetone</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>179124</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Ethanol</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>BP2818100</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Glutaraldehyde</td>
			<td>Sigma-Aldrich</td>
			<td>G5882</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<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>
		</tr>
		<tr height="21">
			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Protocol 5</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<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>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<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>
			<td>LIFEPAK 15</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
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			<td>Signa Horizon LX</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">7T MRI</td>
			<td>Siemens</td>
			<td>10018532</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Gadolinium Contrast Medium (Magnevist)</td>
			<td>Berlex</td>
			<td>50419-188-02</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">2-0 silk suture</td>
			<td>Ethilon</td>
			<td>685H</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">3-0 silk suture</td>
			<td>Ethilon</td>
			<td>622H</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">3-0 monofilament suture</td>
			<td>Ethilon</td>
			<td>627H</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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8.2K Görüntüleme.  University of Alabama at Birmingham. 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 muscl...