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. 2020 Aug 21;11:1314. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.01314

Table 1.

Overview over different approaches of hypertrophy induction methods and used cell sources in in vitro models and the investigated pathway of the study.

Cell source Hypertrophy Model Involved pathways Reference
Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVM) 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, Ang II, PE AMPK pathway, O-GlcNAc signalling (Gelinas et al., 2018)
Adult rat ventricular myocytes (ARVM) 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, PE AMPK pathway, O-GlcNAc signalling (Gelinas et al., 2018)
Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, PE Protein kinase D (PKD) knockdown, AKT/mTOR signaling pathway, autophagy (Zhao et al., 2020)
Murine neonatal cardiomyocytes Micro ridges vs 2D cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, PE Cardiomyocyte morphology on 3D surfaces – F-Actin, Myomesin, Actinin (Jain et al., 2018)
H9c2 cardiomyocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, Iso ANP, BNP, ROS, 3-nitrotyrosine and p67 (phox), MMP, (p)ERK1/2, (p)p38, (p)JNK (Zhang et al., 2016)
Primary neonatal rat ventricular myocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, PE, ET1, Iso, Ang II Myocyte area, protein-bound SRB fluorescence (Loonat et al., 2019)
hiPSC from dermal fibroblasts edited with Crispr/Cas9 2D Cell culture/3D matrigel mattress, Mutational hypertrophy, heterozygous Ca-sensitizing TnT-I79N mutation TnT-I79N protein levels, cytosolic Ca buffering and electrophysiology (Wang et al., 2017)
Rat ventricular cardiomyocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, Ang II GATA4 and miR-26a (also β-MHC and ANF) (Liu et al., 2016)
Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, Ang II β-catenin, NFATc3, WNT pathway (Jiang et al., 2018)
H9c2 cardiomyocytes 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, NA Mitochondrial KATP channel, mitochondrial membrane potential, oxidant status, total antioxidant status, superoxide dismutase (Guven, 2018)
Porcine cardiac progenitor cells 2D Cell culture, Chemical hypertrophy, Ang II, ET1 MiR-21, MiR-29a, GATA4, and MEF2c Expression (Zlabinger et al., 2019)

Ang II, Angiotensin II; PE, Phenylephrine; Iso, Isoproterenol; ET1, Endothelin-1; NA, Noradrenaline.