Dependence of the community effect of cultured cardiomyocytes on the cell network pattern

Tomoyuki Kaneko, Kensuke Kojima, Kenji Yasuda*

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Abstract

To elucidate the role of the community effect in cardiomyocytes, we developed an on-chip single-cell-based culture system with which the dynamics of the change of beat rate and beat rate fluctuation of cultured cardiomyocytes can be measured at the single-cell level before and after the formation of a cell network. We examined the dependence of the community effect on cell network pattern by culturing cardiomyocytes in differently shaped microchambers and investigated the relation between the network pattern and the stability of the beat rate. We found that beat rate fluctuation tends to decrease as cell-community size increases, irrespective of cell network pattern. This indicates that on-chip single-cell-based cardiomyocyte communities might be able to model a heart tissue accurately enough to be used in practical applications such as drug screening.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)494-498
Number of pages5
JournalBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume356
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007 May 4
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Beat rate fluctuation
  • Cell network pattern
  • Community effect
  • Cultured cardiomyocyte
  • Heart tissue model
  • On-chip single-cell-based culture system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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