By carefully guiding the cells» choices at each fork in the road, Loh and Chen were able to generate bone cell precursors that formed human bone when transplanted into laboratory mice and beating heart muscle cells, as well as 10 other mesodermal -
derived cell lineages.
Not exact matches
It is generally accepted that paternally imprinted X inactivation occurs exclusively in extraembryonic
lineages of mouse embryos, whereas
cells of the embryo proper,
derived from the inner
cell mass (ICM), undergo only random X inactivation.
«To
derive lineages, people use soluble growth factors to get the
cells to differentiate,» explains Laura Kiessling, a UW - Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry and stem
cell expert.
The eye is composed of highly specialized tissues that are
derived from a variety of
cell lineages during development.
Foremost is that it is one of the first to show the benefits of using human iPS
cell -
derived renal
lineage cells for
cell therapy.
Recently, several observations suggested that, besides monocyte -
derived macrophages, dendritic
cells, a distinct myeloid
lineage, also express PPARγ at high levels.
The second step will be to optimize culture conditions for the commitment of the iPS / hES
cell -
derived retinal precursors towards the photoreceptor
lineage.
Transcription Factor - Induced
Lineage Selection of Stem
Cell -
Derived Neural Progenitor
Cells
His thesis was entitled «Quantitative description of microRNA target site occupancy in mouse embryonic stem
cells and
derived cells of neuronal
lineage.»
We find that crustacean limb regeneration relies
lineage - committed progenitor
cells: muscles
derive from satellite - like stem
cells, whereas epidermis regenerates from existing epidermal
cells.
Identification of common pathways mediating differentiation of bone marrow - and adipose tissue -
derived human mesenchymal stem
cells into three mesenchymal
lineages.
Taken together, the evidence shows that NPC -
derived iPS
cells can differentiate spontaneously or be induced into specific
lineages reproducibly in vitro.
Furthermore, human NSC -
derived pluripotent stem
cells can differentiate into all three germ
lineages both in vitro and in vivo.
Through extensive examination, we have shown that human NSC -
derived iPS
cells are phenotypically identical to hESCs by all pluripotential markers analyzed and for their ability to differentiate into all three major germ
lineages.
Embryonic stem (ES)
cells are karyotypically normal, embryo -
derived cell lines that are pluripotent, i.e. capable of generating all the
cell types of the future organism, but not the extra-embryonic
lineages.
In this way embryo -
derived stem
cell lines and ES
cell differentiation may be providing access to potential «transition states,» required for
lineage specification in vivo.
However,
cells derived from the early epiblast are only able to contribute to embryonic
lineages and not those
derived from the PrEn [18]--[20], while PrEn
cells can only contribute to their own
lineage by colonizing the visceral and mostly parietal endoderm in chimera experiments [20]--[22].
While ES
cells are
derived from the ICM, they predominantly contribute to embryonic
lineages.
Mouse embryonic stem
cells derived from the epiblast contribute to the somatic
lineages and the germline but are excluded from the extra-embryonic tissues that are
derived from the trophectoderm and the primitive endoderm upon reintroduction to the blastocyst.
San Diego, CA (March 31, 2009)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem
cell engineering company, today announced that it has received U.S. Patent 7,510,876 with claims covering human definitive endoderm
cells, an essential
cell for generating not only pancreatic type
cells, which Novocell is developing for use as a
cell therapy for diabetes, but also other endoderm
lineage -
derived tissues and organs such as lungs, intestine, liver, thymus and thyroid.
Bone marrow -
derived mesenchymal stem
cells (BMDMSC) are of particular interest in orthopedics, as
cells in this
lineage are involved in osteogenic differentiation of
cells at the site of bone generation and regeneration.