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Generation of self-assembling cardiac organoids using hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

ABSTRACT: The combination of the human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) and organoid technology enables the generation of human 3D culture systems, providing the opportunity to model human tissue-like structures in vitro. This protocol offers the details to generate and characterize self-assembling 3D cardiac organoids in a controlled and efficient manner based on hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Cardiac organoids can be used as 3D-based assay systems and offer a wide range of applications in pharmacological and toxicological research as well as an alternative to animal experiments.

SUBMITTER: Kunzel K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469666 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Generation of self-assembling cardiac organoids using hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Künzel Karolina K Künzel Stephan R SR Guan Kaomei K

Heliyon 20220828 9

The combination of the human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) and organoid technology enables the generation of human 3D culture systems, providing the opportunity to model human tissue-like structures <i>in vitro</i>. This protocol offers the details to generate and characterize self-assembling 3D cardiac organoids in a controlled and efficient manner based on hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes. Cardiac organoids can be used as 3D-based assay systems and offer a wide range of applications in pha ...[more]

PMID: 36110234

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Project description:Purpose: Both cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts (CF) play essential roles in cardiac development, function, and remodeling. Properties of 3D co-cultures are incompletely understood. Hence, 3D co-culture of cardiomyocytes and CF was characterized, and selected features compared with single-type and 2D culture conditions. Methods: Human cardiomyocytes derived from induced-pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC-CMs) were obtained from Cellular Dynamics or Ncardia, and primary human cardiac fibroblasts from ScienCell. Cardiac spheroids were investigated using cryosections and whole-mount confocal microscopy, video motion analysis, scanning-, and transmission-electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), action potential recording, and quantitative PCR (qPCR). Results: Spheroids formed in hanging drops or in non-adhesive wells showed spontaneous contractions for at least 1 month with frequent media changes. SEM of mechanically opened spheroids revealed a dense inner structure and no signs of blebbing. TEM of co-culture spheroids at 1 month showed myofibrils, intercalated disc-like structures and mitochondria. Ultrastructural features were comparable to fetal human myocardium. We then assessed immunostained 2D cultures, cryosections of spheroids, and whole-mount preparations by confocal microscopy. CF in co-culture spheroids assumed a small size and shape similar to the situation in ventricular tissue. Spheroids made only of CF and cultured for 3 weeks showed no stress fibers and strongly reduced amounts of alpha smooth muscle actin compared to early spheroids and 2D cultures as shown by confocal microscopy, western blotting, and qPCR. The addition of CF to cardiac spheroids did not lead to arrhythmogenic effects as measured by sharp-electrode electrophysiology. Video motion analysis showed a faster spontaneous contraction rate in co-culture spheroids compared to pure hiPSC-CMs, but similar contraction amplitudes and kinetics. Spontaneous contraction rates were not dependent on spheroid size. Applying increasing pacing frequencies resulted in decreasing contraction amplitudes without positive staircase effect. Gene expression analysis of selected cytoskeleton and myofibrillar proteins showed more tissue-like expression patterns in co-culture spheroids than with cardiomyocytes alone or in 2D culture. Conclusion: We demonstrate that the use of 3D co-culture of hiPSC-CMs and CF is superior over 2D culture conditions for co-culture models and more closely mimicking the native state of the myocardium with relevance to drug development as well as for personalized medicine.

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Generation of self-assembling cardiac organoids using hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

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Generation of self-assembling cardiac organoids using hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

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