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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2010
Sylvia Evans, Del Mar, CA (US);
Ju Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Lizhu Lin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ken Chien, La Jolla, CA (US);
Yibing Qyang, San Diego, CA (US);
Alessandra Moretti, La Jolla, CA (US);
Karl Laugwitz, La Jolla, CA (US);
Sylvia Evans, Del Mar, CA (US);
Ju Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Lizhu Lin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ken Chien, La Jolla, CA (US);
Yibing Qyang, San Diego, CA (US);
Alessandra Moretti, La Jolla, CA (US);
Karl Laugwitz, La Jolla, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a small molecule high-throughput screening assay consisting of detectably labeled cardiac progenitor cells. The invention also describes a method of identifying small molecules from the high-throughput assay affecting cardiogenesis and/or modulating cardiac progenitor cell development. Also described are methods of stimulating maturation of cardiac progenitor cells using a GSK-3β inhibitor.