Clinical Trial in a Dish: Personalized Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte Assay Compared With Clinical Trial Results for Two QT-Prolonging Drugs.

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Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have shown promise in investigating donor-specific phenotypes and pathologies. The iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) could potentially be utilized in personalized cardiotoxicity studies, assessing individual proarrhythmic risk. However, it is unclear how closely iPSC-CMs derived from healthy subjects can recapitulate a range of responses to drugs. It is well known that QT-prolonging drugs induce subject-specific clinical response and that all healthy subjects do not necessarily develop arrhythmias or exhibit similar amounts of QT prolongation. We previously reported this variability in a study of four human ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG) potassium channel-blocking drugs in which each subject underwent intensive pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic sampling such that subjects had 15 time-matched plasma drug concentration and electrocardiogram measurements throughout 24 hours after dosing in a phase I clinical research unit. In this study, iPSC-CMs were generated from those subjects. Their drug-concentration-dependent QT prolongation response from the clinic was compared with in vitro drug-concentration-dependent action potential duration (APD) prolongation response to the same two hERG-blocking drugs, dofetilide and moxifloxacin. Comparative results showed no significant correlation between the subject-specific APD response slopes and clinical QT response slopes to either moxifloxacin (P = 0.75) or dofetilide (P = 0.69). Similarly, no significant correlation was found between baseline QT and baseline APD measurements (P = 0.93). This result advances our current understanding of subject-specific iPSC-CMs and facilitates discussion into factors obscuring correlation and considerations for future studies of subject-specific phenotypes in iPSC-CMs.

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Duke Authors

Cited Authors

  • Blinova, K; Schocken, D; Patel, D; Daluwatte, C; Vicente, J; Wu, JC; Strauss, DG

Published Date

  • November 2019

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 12 / 6

Start / End Page

  • 687 - 697

PubMed ID

  • 31328865

Pubmed Central ID

  • PMC6853144

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1752-8062

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1111/cts.12674

Language

  • eng

Conference Location

  • United States