Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recent advances in cardiac regenerative therapy have allowed for novel modalities in replenishing the damaged myocardium. However, poor long-term engraftment and survival of transplanted cells have largely precluded effective cell replacement. As an alternative to direct cell replacement, the release of paracrine protective factors may be a more plausible effector for cardioprotection which may partially be mediated through secretion of microvesicles, or exosomes, that contribute to cell-cell communication. In this chapter, we describe the isolation of exosomes from induced pluripotent stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes for subsequent microRNA profiling for a better understanding of the biological cargo contained within exosomes.
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Ong, S. G., Lee, W. H., Zhou, Y., & Wu, J. C. (2018). Mining exosomal MicroRNAs from human-induced pluripotent stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes for cardiac regeneration. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1733, pp. 127–136). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7601-0_10
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