Abstract

1. The potential of in vitro cell culturing for providing standardised, reliable and safe cardiomyocyte lines for the purposes of research and potential clinical applications

2. Brief historical overview of the attempts to cultivate rhythmically beating cardiac cells under in vitro conditions

3. Cardiac development in the human embryo

4. Sources of stem cells capable of differentiation into cardiomyocytes

5. Basic types of protocols for induction of targeted differentiation along the mesodermal lineage and direction to cardiogenic fate

6. Markers for differentiation into cardiomyocyte lineage

7. Potential advantages of using cultured cardiomyocytes derived by differentiation from pluripotent stem cells lines

8. Conclusion

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