To produce EBs,
ES cell colonies were removed from feeder cells using a detaching solution, which consisted of 0.25 % trypsin supplemented with 1 mg / ml collagenase IV, 1 mM CaCl2, and 20 % knockout serum replacement (KSR; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA).
Not exact matches
Although some teams have managed to produce nearly pure
colonies of certain kinds of neural
cells from
ES cells, no one has managed to concoct a recipe that will direct the
cells to become, say, a pure population of dopamine - producing neurons that could replace those missing in Parkinson's disease.
A few months ago, researchers reported that oocytes can form spontaneously in
colonies of mouse
ES cells (ScienceNOW, 1 May), the first demonstration that
ES cells can form germ
cells in vitro.
Activities concerning DNA targetting vectors construction, mouse
ES cells generation, genetically modified mice generation, mice
colony housing, breeding and maintenance under respect of ethical rules and animal welfare, rederivation, cryorecovery and cryopreservation services., have been certified ISO 9001:2015.
Following this scheme,
ES cell - like
colonies appeared gradually and were picked up on day twelve.
The
colonies were cultured in suspension in Petri dishes with
ES cell medium [14], and the culture medium was changed every 3 days.
E, Established human iPSC
colonies, with well - defined borders and compact
cells, are morphologically similar to hESCs.
We sought first to examine gene expression in single
ES cells isolated directly from specific zones within
colonies, with two objectives.
(A) Expression of 5 stem marker genes in single
cells isolated from the edge (
E), mid (M) or adjacent center (C) region of HES2
colonies.
Briefly,
ES colonies were maintained on mitotically inactivated mouse embryonic fibroblasts (density of 60,000
cells / cm2) in media consisting of DMEM (Invitrogen cat.
Single
cell Q - RTPCR for the genes indicated was carried out on 87
cells isolated from different regions of
ES colonies.
Peerani et al. [31] suggested that there is a minimal
colony size effect the maintenance of human
ES cell pluripotency, and provided evidence that autocrine regulators of BMP and nodal signaling are key components of this regulatory pathway.
The flow cytometry results showed a quantitative continuous gradient of stem
cell antigen expression in
ES cell cultures, a gradient that reflected the position of
cells in a
colony relative to the feeder
cell layer.
(
E) Rat1 - DD
cells expressing kinase - inactive alleles of MELK (D150A or T167A), fail to grow as
colonies in soft agar.