Human Cardiac Fibroblasts: HCF, fetal

产品说明

一般描述

Cardiac fibroblasts are the most prevalent cell type in the heart, making up 60-70 % of all cells. HCF from Cell Applications, Inc. provide an excellent model system to study many aspects of human heart function and pathophysiology.

HCF has been utilized in a number of research publications, for example to:

• Determine that electrical coupling between cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts is mediated by large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels that can be stimulated by estrogen receptor agonists (Wang, 2006, 2007); and show that antimitogenic effects of estradiol on HCF growth are mediated by cytochromes 1A1/1B1-and catechol-O-methyltransferase-derived metabolites (Dubey, 2005)
• Show that in response to mechanical stretch, cardiac fibroblasts release TGF-β which causes trombomodulin downregulation, increasing the risk of thromboembolic events (Kapur, 2007) and also induces cardiac fibroblast differentiation into myofibroblasts via increased Smad2 and ERK1/2 phosphorylation, that could be stimulated by endothelin-1 and inhibited by Ac-SDKP (Peng, 2010)
• Demonstrate that activation of G protein-coupled receptor kinase-2 (GRK2) prevents normal regulation of collagen synthesis in cardiac fibroblasts mimicking heart failure phenotype (D′Souza, 2011); identify FGF2 signaling pathway as potential target for modulating apoptosis in cardiac pathology (Ma, 2011) and investigate the roles of scleraxis (Bagchi, 2012) and AMPKα1 (Noppe, 2014) in scar formation following myocardial infarction
• Show that the KATP channel opener KMUP-3 preserved cardiac function after myocardial infarction by enhancing the expression of NO synthase and restoring MMP-9/TIMP-1 balance (Liu, 2011)

HCF were also shown to express delayed rectifier IK, Ito, Ca2+-activated K+ current (BKCa), inward-rectifier (Kir-type), and swelling-induced Cl- current (ICl.vol) channels (Yue, 2013).

细胞系来源

Heart

应用

human heart function, neointimal formation, vascular remodeling, myocardial repair, extracellular maintenance, signaling, toxicology, gene expression, structural support for cardiomycytes, synthesis of extracellular matrix, growth factors and cytokines

组分

Basal Medium containing 10% FBS & 10% DMSO

制备说明

• 1st passage, >500,000 cells in Basal Medium containing 10% FBS & 10% DMSO
• Can be cultured at least 8 doublings

传代培养常规

Please refer to the HCF Culture Protocol.

基本信息

NACRES

NA.81

产品性质

质量水平	100
生物来源	human heart (normal)
包装	pkg of 500,000 cells
生长模式	Adherent
核型	2n = 46
形态学	fibroblast
technique(s)	cell culture | mammalian: suitable
相关疾病	cardiovascular diseases
运输	dry ice
储存温度	−196℃

安全信息

储存分类代码	13 - Non Combustible Solids
WGK	WGK 3
闪点(F)	Not applicable
闪点(C)	Not applicable