14: Carlson ME, Suetta C, Conboy MJ, Aagaard P, Mackey A, Kjaer M, Conboy I. Molecular aging and rejuvenation of
human muscle stem cells.
Researchers discover that the inhibition of a lysine methyltransferase allows for the long - culture and amplification of
human muscle stem cells
Not exact matches
On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain
stem - cell therapies, which will be key for
human trials like the heart -
muscle - regeneration program.
This has motivated novel cardiotherapeutic strategies to repair and regenerate heart
muscle, including
human mesenchymal
stem cell (hMSC) therapy.
Two weeks after the experimental myocardial infarctions, the Seattle researchers injected 1 billion heart
muscle cells derived from
human embryonic
stem cells, called
human embryonic
stem cell - derived cardiomyocytes, into the infarcted
muscle.
Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving
human tests of a novel
stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the
muscles wither or die.
Sen and his colleagues tested sucralose, a popular low - calorie sweetener, on
stem cells — cells that could change into mature fat,
muscle, cartilage or bone cells — taken from
human fat tissue.
The new method, described in the journal
Stem Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem ce
Stem Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of
muscle cells and
muscle progenitors directly from
human pluripotent
stem ce
stem cells.
«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning
human muscle from pluripotent
stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac's laboratory and first author of the study.
Human muscle cells assemble to form aligned, multinucleated (purple)
muscle fibers and resident
muscle stem cells (white).
«You'd still have to ration the therapy,» cautions Robert Hariri, chief researcher at Anthrogenesis in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, which announced this year that it had morphed
human placental
stem cells into nerve, blood, cartilage, skin, and
muscle cells.
• News from the World of Adult -
Stem Cell Research • At the University of California at Los Angeles, Marc Hedrick's team used
human adult fat cells extracted during liposuction to make cells resembling cartilage, bone, and
muscle.
Specifically, the researchers generated the tissue from
human embryonic
stem cells with the resulting
muscle having significant similarities to
human heart
muscle.
Geneticist Kay Davies of the University of Oxford, U.K., says that in order for the approach to be successful in
humans, the
stem cells will have to be delivered to every
muscle.
Muscles from mice treated with modified
human stem cells show
human dystrophin - producing
muscle fibers (yellow) integrated among mouse
muscle fibers (red).
«For a
stem cell therapy for Duchenne to move forward, we must have a better understanding of the cells we are generating from
human pluripotent
stem cells compared to the
muscle stem cells found naturally in the
human body and during the development process.»
As
stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University of Wisconsin — Madison has discovered a new way to make large concentrations of skeletal
muscle cells and
muscle progenitors from
human stem cells.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have mapped out the sets of biological and chemical signals necessary to quickly and efficiently direct
human embryonic
stem cells to become pure populations of any of 12 cell types, including bone, heart
muscle and cartilage.
Human heart cells grown from
stem cells show less - robust
muscle fibers (green) in the presence of high levels of glucose (left) than when glucose levels were lower (right).
The group recently produced data showing that
stem cells from
human hair follicles also differentiate into contractile smooth
muscle cells.
Human heart cells grown from
stem cells show less - robust
muscle fibers (green) in the presence of high levels of...
The decline in skeletal
muscle function associated with
human ageing can be ascribed to an increasing number of mutations in satellite cells — the resident
stem cells of skeletal
muscle.
The team identified the connections between rs9349379 and EDN1 by deleting a region of DNA at the SNP in
human pluripotent
stem cells and then converting these immature cells into endothelial cells and vascular smooth
muscle cells.
In a study using
human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's
Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage ce
Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized
stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage ce
stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into
muscle, bone and cartilage cells.
«
Human Source Of
Stem Cells With Potential To Repair
Muscle Identified.»
Human embryonic
stem cells can turn into a variety of different cell types, including (A) gut, (B) neural cells, (C) bone marrow cells, (D) cartilage, (E)
muscle, and (F) kidney cells.
Human embryonic
stem cells grown at the University of Wisconsin - Madison randomly changed into cell types found in the A) gut B) brain C) bone marrow D) cartilage E)
muscle F) kidney Scientists haven't learned to control the development.
Generating mature and viable heart
muscle cells from
human or other animal
stem cells has proven difficult for biologists.
Review of «Engineering
human pluripotent
stem cells into a functional skeletal
muscle tissue» from Nature Communications by Stuart P. Atkinson
Rao L, Qian Y, Khodabukus A, et al., Engineering
human pluripotent
stem cells into a functional skeletal
muscle tissue.
Researchers are now able to use induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSC) to form a model of
human adult - like cardiac
muscle by introducing electric and mechanical stimulation at an early stage.