ESTABLISHMENT OF PATIENT- OR PERSON- SPECIFIC CARDIAC MYOCYTE CELL LINES FROM HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS (iPSCs)

摘要

A composition and method for generating patient- or person-specific proliferative and substantially pure cardiac myocyte cell lines from pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is described herein. The patient-specific cardiac myocyte cell lines of the present invention find applications in research, drug screening and autologous cell-based therapy. The method of the present invention is simple and reproducible and generates cardiac myocyte cells having high purities and proliferating capacities.