New modalities of 3D pluripotent stem cell-based assays in cardiovascular toxicity
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Author(s)
Orsolits, Barbara
Kovács, Zsófia
Kriston-Vizi, János
Merkely, Béla
Földes, Gábor
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The substantial progress of the human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technologies over the last decade has provided us with new opportunities for cardiovascular drug discovery, regenerative medicine, and disease modeling. The combination of hiPSC with 3D culture techniques offers numerous advantages for generating and studying physiological and pathophysiological cardiac models. Cells grown in 3D can overcome many limitations of 2D cell cultures and animal models. Furthermore, it enables the investigation in an architecturally appropriate, complex cellular environment in vitro. Yet, generation and study of cardiac organoids-which may contain versatile cardiovascular cell types differentiated from hiPSC-remain a challenge. The large-scale and high-throughput applications require accurate and standardised models with highly automated processes in culturing, imaging and data collection. Besides the compound spatial structure of organoids, their biological processes also possess different temporal dynamics which require other methods and technologies to detect them. In this review, we summarise the possibilities and challenges of acquiring relevant information from 3D cardiovascular models. We focus on the opportunities during different time-scale processes in dynamic pharmacological experiments and discuss the putative steps toward one-size-fits-all assays.
Date Issued
2021-03-29
Date Acceptance
2021-02-04
Citation
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021, 12
ISSN
1663-9812
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Pharmacology
Volume
12
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Orsolits, Kovács, Kriston-Vizi, Merkely and Földes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33854431
PII: 603016
Subjects
3D models
assay
cardiovascular
human induced pluripotent stem cells
toxicology
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Switzerland
Article Number
ARTN 603016