The replacement of injured cardiac contractile cells with stem cell-derived functionally efficient cardiomyocytes has been envisaged as the resolutive treatment for degenerative heart diseases. Nevertheless, many technical issues concerning the optimal procedures to differentiate and engraft stem cells remain to be answered before heart cell therapy could be routinely used in clinical practice. So far, most studies have been focused on evaluating the differentiative potential of different growth factors without considering that only the synergistic cooperation of biochemical, topographic, chemical and physical factors could induce stem cells to adopt the desired phenotype. The present study demonstrates that the differentiation of cardiac progenitor cells to cardiomyocytes does not occur when cells are challenged with soluble growth factors alone, but requires strictly controlled procedures for the isolation of a progenitor cell population and the artifactual recreation of a microenvironment critically featured by a fine-tuned combination of specific biological and physical factors. Indeed, the scaffold geometry and stiffness are crucial in enhancing growth factor differentiative effects on progenitor cells. The exploitation of this concept could be essential in setting up suitable procedures to fabricate functionally efficient engineered tissues

Forte, G., Carotenuto, F., Pagliari, F., Pagliari, S., Cossa, P., Fiaccavento, R., et al. (2008). Criticality of the biological and physical stimuli array inducing resident cardiac stem cell determination. STEM CELLS, 26, 2093-2103 [10.1634/stemcells.2008-0061].

Criticality of the biological and physical stimuli array inducing resident cardiac stem cell determination

CAROTENUTO, FELICIA;TRAVERSA, ENRICO;MINIERI, MARILENA;DI NARDO, PAOLO
2008-08-01

Abstract

The replacement of injured cardiac contractile cells with stem cell-derived functionally efficient cardiomyocytes has been envisaged as the resolutive treatment for degenerative heart diseases. Nevertheless, many technical issues concerning the optimal procedures to differentiate and engraft stem cells remain to be answered before heart cell therapy could be routinely used in clinical practice. So far, most studies have been focused on evaluating the differentiative potential of different growth factors without considering that only the synergistic cooperation of biochemical, topographic, chemical and physical factors could induce stem cells to adopt the desired phenotype. The present study demonstrates that the differentiation of cardiac progenitor cells to cardiomyocytes does not occur when cells are challenged with soluble growth factors alone, but requires strictly controlled procedures for the isolation of a progenitor cell population and the artifactual recreation of a microenvironment critically featured by a fine-tuned combination of specific biological and physical factors. Indeed, the scaffold geometry and stiffness are crucial in enhancing growth factor differentiative effects on progenitor cells. The exploitation of this concept could be essential in setting up suitable procedures to fabricate functionally efficient engineered tissues
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Forte, G., Carotenuto, F., Pagliari, F., Pagliari, S., Cossa, P., Fiaccavento, R., et al. (2008). Criticality of the biological and physical stimuli array inducing resident cardiac stem cell determination. STEM CELLS, 26, 2093-2103 [10.1634/stemcells.2008-0061].
Forte, G; Carotenuto, F; Pagliari, F; Pagliari, S; Cossa, P; Fiaccavento, R; Ahluwalia, A; Vozzi, G; Vinci, B; Serafino, A; Rinaldi, A; Traversa, E; Carosella, L; Minieri, M; DI NARDO, P
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