Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models: Characterization of iPS Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Despite significant advances in medical treatment, cardiovascular disease is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in advanced countries. To improve the outcome, the further promotion of basic cardiovascular science has a pivotal role for the developing novel therapeutic approach. However, due to the inaccessibility of human heart tissue, we couldn’t obtain the sufficient amount of patient’s heart tissues. The discovery of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is highly expected to provide the breakthrough to this obstruction. Through the patient-specific iPSCs-derived cardiomyocytes, we could analyze the patient-specific heart diseases directly and repetitively. Herein we introduce the outline of creation for cardiac disease modeling using patient-specific iPSCs.Within several topics, we present the actual representative methodologies throughout the process from the derivation of cardiomyocytes to those of functional analysis.