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Regen Med Res
Volume 1, 2013
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Article Number | 6 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-490X-1-6 | |
Published online | 08 November 2013 |
Review
Current status of induced pluripotent stem cells in cardiac tissue regeneration and engineering
1
Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and Tissue Engineering Research Center, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, 27 Taiping Rd, Beijing 100850, P.R China
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Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
* Correspondence: wcy2000_te@yahoo.com
Received: 28 October 2012
Accepted: 20 February 2013
Myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with damage to the myocardium which results in a great loss of functional cardiomyocytes. As one of the most terminally differentiated organs, the endogenous regenerative potentials of adult hearts are extremely limited and insufficient to compensate for the myocardial loss occurring after MI. Consequentially, exogenous regenerative strategies, especially cell replacement therapy, have emerged and attracted increasing more attention in the field of cardiac tissue regeneration. A renewable source of seeding cells is therefore one of the most important subject in the field. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), embryonic stem cell (ESC)-like cells that are derived from somatic cells by reprogramming, represent a promising candidate due to their high potentials for self-renewal, proliferation, differentiation and more importantly, they provide an invaluable method of deriving patient-specific pluripotent stem cells. Therefore, iPSC-based cardiac tissue regeneration and engineering has been extensively investigated in recent years. This review will discuss the achievements and current status in this field, including development of iPSC derivation, in vitro strategies for cardiac generation from iPSCs, cardiac application of iPSCs, challenges confronted at present as well as perspective in the future.
Key words: Cell therapy / iPSCs / Myocardial infarction / Regenerative medicine / Tissue engineering
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