Not exact matches
Hayashi then drew
on other research showing that one key regulatory molecule (activin A) and a growth factor (basic
fibroblast growth factor) could convert cultured early
embryonic stem cells into cells akin to epiblasts.
The latest study builds
on earlier research from Izpisúa Belmonte's laboratory showing that extra limbs could be induced to grow in
embryonic chicks by implanting beads soaked in
fibroblast growth factor (FGF).
Embryonic cardiac
fibroblasts promote myocyte proliferation, while adult
fibroblasts promote myocyte hypertrophy,» said Masaki Ieda, MD, PhD, Gladstone postdoctoral fellow and lead author
on the study.
Most prior established iPS cell lines were derived and maintained
on mouse
embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells supplemented with exogenous leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF).
Cells were cultured
on irradiated mouse
embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) in DMEM / F12 culture medium supplemented with KnockOut serum replacer (20 %), non-essential amino acids (0.1 mM), L - glutamine (1 mM), ß - mercaptoethanol (0.1 mM) and 100 ng / ml zebrafish basic
fibroblast growth factor.
Briefly, ES colonies were maintained
on mitotically inactivated mouse
embryonic fibroblasts (density of 60,000 cells / cm2) in media consisting of DMEM (Invitrogen cat.
hESC lines I6 and H9 were maintained
on Matrigel (BD Biosciences, Bedford, MA; http://www.bdbiosciences.com) coated dishes in medium (comprised of Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium / Ham's F12 supplemented with 20 % knockout serum replacement (KSR), 2 mM non-essential amino acids, 4 mM L - glutamine, 0.1 mM β - mercaptoethanol, 50 µg / ml Penn - Strep, and 4 ng / ml of basic
fibroblast growth factor) conditioned with mouse
embryonic fibroblasts for 24 hours as previously described [9], [10].
But initial experiments
on human
fibroblasts from three sources — fetal heart cells,
embryonic stem cells and neonatal skin cells — revealed that the GMT combination alone was not sufficient.