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<p class="publishdate"><span class="tag-term">News Release</span></p><p class="publishdate"><span property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2018-04-04T13:00:00-04:00" class="date-display-single">Wednesday, April 4, 2018</span></p><h1>Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells </h1><p class="subtitle">
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<p>Stem cells have the potential to turn into many different types of cells. Human cells lose this flexibility once they have matured, which is why, for example, heart cells don’t spontaneously decide to become lung cells. iPSCs are cells taken from an adult that have been manipulated, or induced, into a stem-cell state. Researchers are then able to guide these “blank slate” cells into different cell types by using various chemical and physical stimuli. Scientists have been able to engineer cardiac tissue using iPS-derived cardiomyocytes (iPS-CMs) for years. However, engineering tissue that can successfully mimic the intricacies of adult human heart cells is not easy and, until now, had not been achieved in the lab.</p>
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<p>They tested two types of iPS-CMs: early stage (12-day old cells) and late stage (28-day old mature cells) under three different scenarios. The first test condition was a control in which there was no stimulation whatsoever. The second was three weeks of constant electrical stimulation. The third was two weeks of progressively increasing levels of electrical stimulation followed by a week of constant intensity stimulation. This third scenario mimicked the changes the human heart undergoes during the last few weeks of fetal development and after birth.</p>
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<p>The study was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute through grants EB017103, EB025765, HL076485, and HL138486.</p>
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