Metabolic rate monitoring of undifferentiated iPS cells and expression analysis of differentiation markers
A case study observing changes in glucose and lactate concentrations while culturing iPS cells using an undifferentiated maintenance protocol with regular medium exchanges. Over a 7-day culture period, it shows that cell numbers increase while the metabolic rate decreases in the later stages of culture. This indicates potential applications in developing protocols to improve the quality of undifferentiated iPS cells.