Cardiology

Hypertension and Cardiac Progenitors

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Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure, is a long term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.^[1] High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms.^[2] Long term high blood pressure; however, is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, vision loss, and chronic kidney disease.Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) are committed to the cardiac lineage but retain their proliferative capacity before becoming quiescent mature cardiomyocytes (CMs). In medical therapy and research, the use of human pluripotent stem cell-derived CPCs would have several advantages compared with mature CMs, as the progenitors show better engraftment into existing heart tissues, and provide unique potential for cardiovascular developmental as well as for pharmacological studies. Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) represent the earliest stages of mesoderm commitment to the cardiac lineages and directed differentiation of CPCs from pluripotent stem cells has been demonstrated in a number of recent studies. Furthermore, these cells have been shown to be capable of generating other terminal cardiac cell types such as cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and vascular smooth muscle cells.  However, utilization of CPCs for such endeavors requires a robust, scalable, and consistent differentiation methodology.

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