Porcine bone marrow stromal
cell differentiation on heparin - adsorbed poly (e-caprolactone)- tricalcium phosphate - collagen scaffolds.
By monitoring stem
cell differentiation on gels that mimic the stiffness and nanofibrous structure of biological tissue, researchers have identified the specific molecules that stem cells use when selecting bone and cartilage fates.
All the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge he had gathered during his scientific training — which had covered biochemistry, biotechnology, biomaterials, and stem cell biology — put him «in a very advantageous position to address this question» of how to develop nanoparticles that could modulate stem
cell differentiation on demand, he says.
Not exact matches
A 2016 study observed the influence of the monk fruit component, mogrol,
on fat accumulation and found that it inhibited the
differentiation of pre-adipocytes (pre-fat
cells) into mature adipocytes (fat
cells)(11).
Their findings affirm Engler's prior work
on the relationship between matrix stiffness and stem
cell differentiations.
Now, in a new study published today, Sept. 8, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison has added a new wrinkle to the
cell differentiation equation, showing that the stiffness of the surfaces
on which stem
cells are grown can exert a profound influence
on cell fate.
The study sought to test whether the surface alone, absent any added soluble factors to influence
cell fate decisions, can have an effect
on differentiation.
Based
on this work, they decided to investigate whether miR -17-92 regulates T - and B -
cell differentiation and function in the development of cGVHD.
A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and
differentiation of human nasal epithelial stem
cells — was inserted into a small chamber
on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.
The study focuses
on «stemness,» defined as the potential for self - renewal and
differentiation from the
cell of origin, and
on «stemness indices» developed during postdoctoral research conducted by Tathiane Malta as part of a project supported by FAPESP and with Houtan Noushmehr, a professor in FMRP - USP's Genetics Department, as principal investigator.
The research has also investigated the role of Rho - kinase inhibition
on cellular - scale protein expression and stimulation of cellular
differentiation of fibroblast
cells.
Because these organisms are excellent models for understanding stem
cell biology, researchers were able to shed light
on the earliest stages of follicle
cell differentiation, a previously poorly understood area of developmental biology.
In order to avoid
differentiation and to remain pluripotent, these stem
cells are dependent
on signals from their neighbouring
cells.
On the flip side, those genes needed for
differentiation, which were repressed in the progenitor
cells, had their epigenetic repression removed.»
«We have discovered that by timing the inhibition of STAT3 — like an «
on / off» light switch — we can transiently expand the satellite -
cell population followed by their
differentiation into mature muscle
cells.»
To bypass the challenge, the team relied
on their complementary expertise in genome engineering, stem
cell differentiation into neurons, and genomic analysis of alternative splicing.
Although this human Gut Chip recreated the villus epithelium of normal intestine and enabled new insights into how flow and cyclic peristalsis affects intestinal
differentiation and function, it could not be used to study processes that relied
on normal intestinal
cells from individual donors, which, for example, is crucial for studying patient - specific responses for personalized medicine.
Research conducted at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science built
on previous findings that gold nanoparticles can encourage stem
cells in the bone marrow to differentiate into bone
cells, and that specific biomolecules can inhibit or promote stem
cell differentiation.
I've still kept my own lab going focusing
on understanding what pluripotent stem
cells really are, and the extrinsic signals that govern their self - renewal and
differentiation.
The positively charged and neutral nanoparticles mildly inhibited stem
cell proliferation but had no effect
on their
differentiation into bone
cells.
They then used human stem
cells derived from bone marrow that would normally become bone
cells to test the effects of the nanoparticles
on stem
cell proliferation and
differentiation.
The process that sets a stem
cell on the path to either self - renewal or
differentiation was thought to be a highly complex web of genetic and environmental interactions.
which is focused
on mouse models of adult stem
cell differentiation and tissue regeneration.
Such research
on the basic processes of
cell differentiation holds out the promise of dramatic new medical interventions and cures.
Seeking fresh sources, they looked for
cells that express the gene neurogenin 3, a potential sign of
cell differentiation because it is the first gene to only switch
on in pancreatic islets during embryonic development.
Special focus is placed
on Rho - kinase inhibition, relating to its potential to promote and support extracellular matrix production in cultured chondrocytes and its role in fibroblast
cells as a part of direct chemical cellular
differentiation.
«Our experiments showed that restoring H19 expression hindered by too much p53 restored «protective
differentiation» of osteoblasts to counter events of tumor growth early
on in bone cancer,» said co-author, Ihor Lemischka, PhD, Director of The Black Family Stem
Cell Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine.
Then, putting these
cells on natural scaffolds, researchers facilitated
differentiation of these stem
cells back to corneal
cells.
The International Human Epigenome Consortium presents a series of studies
on how epigenetics influences immunity,
cell lineage determination, and
differentiation.
Leptin acts
on human marrow stromal
cells to enhance
differentiation to osteoblasts and to inhibit
differentiation to adipocytes
This ability of NGF to sustain sympathetic neurons in culture has since made possible some ingenious and revealing experiments
on neuronal
differentiation [see «The Chemical Differentiation of Nerv
differentiation [see «The Chemical
Differentiation of Nerv
Differentiation of Nerve
Cells.»
His work has focused
on discovering and characterizing novel small molecules that can control various
cell fates and functions, including stem
cell maintenance, activation,
differentiation and reprogramming in various developmental stages and tissues.
We will develop mathematical models to predict the pathways of
differentiation from naive to memory and effector T -
cell subsets based
on the characterisation of surface marker expression, transcription factors and cytokines production at early and late time points after immunisation.
Our work focuses
on discovering and characterizing novel small molecules that can control
cell fate and function in numerous
cell types, including stem
cell maintenance, activation,
differentiation, and reprogramming in various developmental stages and tissues.
This includes helpful information
on harvesting adult stem
cells for
differentiation, optimizing the setup of transwell inserts, and monitoring and identifying successful versus unsuccessful
differentiation in the air - liquid interface system.
Cell therapy, as envisaged by the teams of I - Stem, is primarily based on the identification of experimental protocols that can specifically guide differentiation of pluripotent cells to a cell fate, which presents a interest for the replacement of the defective cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, et
Cell therapy, as envisaged by the teams of I - Stem, is primarily based
on the identification of experimental protocols that can specifically guide
differentiation of pluripotent
cells to a
cell fate, which presents a interest for the replacement of the defective cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, et
cell fate, which presents a interest for the replacement of the defective
cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, et
cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the
cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, etc.).
We examine their original thymic development: selection
on hematopoietic
cells leading to the acquisition of an original
differentiation program.
The influence of the src - family kinases, Lck and Fyn,
on T
cell differentiation, survival and activation.
They include reduced lymphocyte repertoire, increasing clonality and increasing autoreactivity.5, 7,8 Recent work has focused
on intrinsic
cell defects, which alter T
cell activation threshold, induction of cellular senescence and
differentiation into short - lived effector or long - lived memory
cells.
NeuroStemcell is focused
on the identification and systematic comparison of progenitor
cell lines with the most favourable characteristics for mesDA and striatal GABAergic neuronal
differentiation, generated either directly from human embryonic stem (ES)
cells, from Neural Stem (NS)
cells derived from ES
cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS)
cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate
cells in appropriate animals models.
We have specifically studied the potential of endothelial
differentiation of MSC and the impact of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (Imatinib mesylate)
on this type of stem
cells.
TTD - specific cutaneous and anaemic features,
on the other hand, are thought to result from a specific kind of transcriptional insufficiency caused by depletion of unstable TFIIH during the terminal
differentiation of skin, hair - shaft, and blood
cells [16,24].
Bartosz Balana (Ravens, TUD)-- «Influence of culture conditions
on differentiation and bioelectrical properties of human mesenchymal stem
cells» (2005)
Effects of dehydroepiandrosterone
on proliferation and
differentiation of chromaffin progenitor
cells.
Our laboratory focuses
on the fundamental events involved in
cell fate determination and
differentiation and organogenesis.
Until now, scientific dogma has stated that
differentiation is a one - way path; once
cells specialize, they can not return to the flexible stem -
cell state
on their own.
Differences between in vitro viability and
differentiation and in vivo bone - forming efficacy of human mesenchymal stem
cells cultured
on PCL - TCP scaffolds.
Can we artificially speed up or slow down
cells and what affect will this have
on differentiation capacity?
Colonization and osteogenic
differentiation of different stem
cell sources
on electrospun nanofiber meshes.
Here, Kate presents her work
on that show that culture of human ES
cells on human recombinant laminin - 521 and laminin - 111 substrates significantly improve hepatocyte
differentiation, maturation, function and stabilization of phenotype compared to Matrigel cultured
cells.