Cell culture conditions affect the ability of high content imaging assay to detect drug-induced changes in cellular parameters in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs).

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) are widely used for drug safety and efficacy testing with various techniques, including high content imaging (HCI). Upon drug treatment, a significant number of hiPSC-CMs grown in regular 96-well plates coated with fibronectin detached from the bottom of the plate, complicating data acquisition. Several cell culture configurations were tested to improve cell adherence, and the effects of these configurations on total cell number, separation of feature values between the negative (DMSO 0.