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Table 2 Transplantation protocols

From: Toward the realization of cardiac regenerative medicine using pluripotent stem cells

Publication

Transplantation Method

Recipient Animal Species

Recipient Model

Donor Cell Type

Number of Donor Cells

Transplantation Efficacy

Hattori F et al. [29]

Direct cell injection

Mouse

Healthy heart

mESC-CMs

hESC-CMs

NA

NA

Zwi-Dantsis L et al. [27]

Direct cell injection

Rat

Healthy heart

hiPSC-CMs

1.5×105

Develop gap junctions between donor hiPSC-CMs and host rat CMs

Shiba et al. [28]

Direct cell injection

Pig

Cryoinjury induced infarcted heart

hESC-CMs

1×108

Reduce ventricular tachycardia

Improve left ventricle fractional shortening

Ye et al. [30]

Direct cell injection

Pig

LAD ligation induced infarcted heart

hiPSC-CMs

hiPSC-EC

hiPSC-SMC

fibrin patch

2×106

2×106

2×106

Improve left ventricle ejection fraction and infarct size

Chong JJ et al. [31]

Direct cell injection

Monkey

LAD balloon occlusion induced infarcted heart

hESC-CMs

NA

Electromechanical coupling between graft and host myocytes

Shiba et al. [32]

Direct cell injection

Monkey

LAD ligation induced infarcted heart

hiPSC-CMs

4×108

Increase ventricular tachycardia transiently

Improve left ventricle ejection fraction and fractional shortening

Liu YW et al. [33]

Direct cell injection

Monkey

LAD balloon occlusion induced infarcted heart

hESC-CMs

7.5×108

Increase ventricular tachycardia transiently

Improve left ventricle ejection fraction

Tabei et al. [42]

Direct cell injection

Pig

Healthy heart

hiPSC-CM spheroids

1×107

The combination of the newly developed transplant device and spheroid formation promotes the retention of transplanted CMs

Kimura et al. [34]

Pericardial endoscopy and direct injection

Pig

Healthy heart

NA

NA

NA

Masumoto et al. [35]

Cell sheets

Rat

LAD ligation induced infarcted heart

mESC-CMs

mESC-ECs&MCs

5×105

5×105

Improve left ventricle systolic function and infarct size

Suzuki et al. [36]

Cell sheets

Omentopexy

Rat

LAD ligation induced infarcted heart

Neonatal CMs

5.6×105/cm2

Improve left ventricle ejection fraction

Kashiyama et al. [37]

Cell sheets

Monkey

LAD ligation induced infarcted heart

mkiPSC-CMs

3.6×106/sheet

Improve left ventricle systolic function

Ott HC et al. [38]

Cell scaffolding

Recellularization

Rat

Decellularized heart

Neonatal CMs Fibrocytes

ECs

SMCs

5-7.5×107

Generate working recellularized heart

Lu et al. [39]

Cell scaffolding

Recellularization

Mouse

Decellularized heart

hiPSC-MCPs

1×107

Generate working recellularized heart having responsiveness to drugs

  1. Abbreviations: hiPSC human induced pluripotent stem cell, mESC mouse embryonic stem cell, hESC human embryonic stem cell, mkiPSC monkey induced pluripotent stem cell, CMs cardiomyocytes, ECs endothelial cells, SMCs smooth muscle cells, MCs vascular mural cells, MCPs multipotential cardiovascular progenitors, LAD left anterior descending artery, N/A not applicable or not available