Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Human pre-valvular endocardial cells derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate cardiac pathophysiological valvulogenesis

  • Tui Neri,
  • Emilye Hiriart,
  • Patrick P. van Vliet,
  • Emilie Faure,
  • Russell A. Norris,
  • Batoul Farhat,
  • Bernd Jagla,
  • Julie Lefrancois,
  • Yukiko Sugi,
  • Thomas Moore-Morris,
  • Stéphane Zaffran,
  • Randolph S. Faustino,
  • Alexander C. Zambon,
  • Jean-Pierre Desvignes,
  • David Salgado,
  • Robert A. Levine,
  • Jose Luis de la Pompa,
  • André Terzic,
  • Sylvia M. Evans,
  • Roger Markwald,
  • Michel Pucéat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09459-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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There are few human models that can recapitulate valve development in vitro. Here, the authors derive human pre-valvular endocardial cells (HPVCs) from iPSCs and show they can recapitulate early valvulogenesis, and patient derived HPVCs have features of mitral valve prolapse and identified SHH dysregulation.