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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 284: H2114-H2123, 2003. First published February 6, 2003; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01106.2001
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Vol. 284, Issue 6, H2114-H2123, June 2003

Development of electrical activity in cardiac myocyte aggregates derived from mouse embryonic stem cells

K. Banach1, M. D. Halbach1, P. Hu1, J. Hescheler1, and U. Egert2

1 Institut für Neurophysiologie, Universität zu Köln, 50931 Köln; and 2 Institut für Neurobiologie und Biophysik, Institut für Biologie III, Albert-Ludwigs Universtität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Embryonic stem cells differentiate into cardiac myocytes, repeating in vitro the structural and molecular changes associated with cardiac development. Currently, it is not clear whether the electrophysiological properties of the multicellular cardiac structure follow cardiac maturation as well. In long-term recordings of extracellular field potentials with microelectrode arrays consisting of 60 substrate-integrated electrodes, we examined the electrophysiological properties during the ongoing differentiation process. The beating frequency of the growing preparations increased from 1 to 5 Hz concomitant to a decrease of the action potential duration and action potential rise time. A developmental increase of the conduction velocity could be attributed to an increased expression of connexin43 gap junction channels. Whereas isoprenalin elicited a positive chronotropic response from the first day of spontaneous beating onward, a concentration-dependent negative chronotropic effect of carbachol only developed after ~4 days. The in vitro development of the three-dimensional cardiac preparation thus closely follows the development described for the mouse embryonic heart, making it an ideal model to monitor the differentiation of electrical activity in embryonic cardiomyocytes.

cardiac development; microelectrode array; excitation spread; connexin43; mouse embryonic stem cells


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