The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from
adult fibroblast cells to create iPS cells.
Not exact matches
Repeated transfection of two expression plasmids, one containing the complementary DNAs (cDNAs) of Oct3 / 4, Sox2, and Klf4 and the other containing the c - Myc cDNA, into mouse embryonic
fibroblasts resulted in iPS
cells without evidence of plasmid integration, which produced teratomas when transplanted into mice and contributed to
adult chimeras.
The research team took skin
fibroblast tissue from
adult mole - rats and reprogrammed the
cells to revert to pluripotent stem
cells.
Skin - producing
cells called
fibroblasts from the tip of an
adult mouse's tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese researchers report online October 17 in Nature.
Imagine researchers» excitement, then, when Kyoto University's Shinya Yamanaka reported last year that his group had created embryolike
cells directly, without transferring chromosomes, simply by injecting mouse
fibroblast cells with four genes that are active in embryonic
cells but not in
adult ones.
A structure containing interstitial
fibroblast - like
cells developed within the WAT in sexually immature migratory
adults.
First, the MimEX ™
Cell Plating Procedure is used to maintain a uniform irradiated
fibroblast monolayer for the rapid clonal expansion and efficient differentiation of tissue - specific
adult epithelial stem
cells.
Troubleshooting
fibroblast contamination when isolating
adult stem
cells from biopsy tissue
«Induction of Pluripotent Stem
Cells From Mouse Embryonic and
Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors,» by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka,
Cell, Aug. 25, 2006.
Induction of stem
cell gene expression in
adult human
fibroblasts without transgenes.
Yamanaka's group used human
adult dermal
fibroblasts and induced them to become iPSCs, appearing and functioning like hESCs, by having them express the same proteins as he used with mouse
cells: Oct - 4, Sox2, Klf4, and c - Myc (Takahashi et al., 2007).
They made
adult fibroblastic mouse
cells become essentially mouse embryonic stem
cells, in appearance and function, by forcing the
fibroblasts to express four key embryonic stem
cell factors: Oct - 4, Sox2, Klf4, and c - Myc.
Takahashi, K., Tanabe, K., Ohnuki, M., Narita, M., Ichisaka, T., Tomoda, K., and Yamanaka, S. Induction of Pluripotent Stem
Cells from
Adult Human
Fibroblasts.
By observing the
cells in this system, they found that the embryonic cardiac
fibroblasts promoted
cell division by the cardiomyocytes more efficiently than
adult cardiac
fibroblasts.
Pluripotent stem
cells can be generated from
adult mouse - tail tip
fibroblasts and
adult human
fibroblasts by the retrovirus - mediated transfection of four transcription factors, Oct3 / 4, Sox2, c - Myc, and Klf4.
Fibroblast growth factor - 2 activates a latent neurogenic program in neural stem
cells from diverse regions of the
adult CNS.
The
adult human heart is only half muscle; the other half is made of support
cells called
fibroblasts that help repair wounds and form scars around damaged tissue.
We derived a
fibroblast line from a skin biopsy from a healthy
adult male (HUF1)(Figure 1A) and used immunocytochemistry to characterize the expression of
cell surface markers commonly expressed on pluripotent stem
cells (Figure 1B, C and D).
It has also been reported that Kap1 controls endogenous retroelements during early embryonic development and in embryonic stem
cells but not in
adult fibroblasts [45].
Methods to enhance the reprogramming efficiency would significantly increase the feasibility of this approach, especially for
cell types which tend to be more difficult to reprogram, such as the primary
adult human
fibroblasts used in this study.