Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Retinoic acid signaling modulation guides in vitro specification of human heart field-specific progenitor pools

  • Dorota Zawada,
  • Jessica Kornherr,
  • Anna B. Meier,
  • Gianluca Santamaria,
  • Tatjana Dorn,
  • Monika Nowak-Imialek,
  • Daniel Ortmann,
  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Mark Lachmann,
  • Martina Dreßen,
  • Mariaestela Ortiz,
  • Victoria L. Mascetti,
  • Stephen C. Harmer,
  • Muriel Nobles,
  • Andrew Tinker,
  • Maria Teresa De Angelis,
  • Roger A. Pedersen,
  • Phillip Grote,
  • Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz,
  • Alessandra Moretti,
  • Alexander Goedel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36764-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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The heart is formed from several spatiotemporally distinct progenitor pools during development. Here they show that modulation of retinoic acid signaling can instruct human pluripotent stems cells into heart progenitors that are useful for studying human development and disease.