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Embryonic stem cells differentiate in vitro into cardiomyocytes representing sinusnodal, atrial and ventricular cell types.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Nov 1993
Maltsev V A, Rohwedel J, Hescheler J, Wobus A M
Abstract excerpt
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESC, ES cells) of line D3 were differentiated in vitro and via embryo-like aggregates (embryoid bodies) of defined cell number into spontaneously beating cardiomyocytes. By using RT-PCR technique, alpha- and beta-cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) genes were found to be expressed in embryoid bodies of early to terminal differentiation stages. The exclusive expression of the...
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