Sentences with phrase «into epithelial stem cells»

They then converted the iPS cells into epithelial stem cells, normally found at the bulge of hair follicles.

Xiaowei «George» Xu, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues published in Nature Communications a method for converting adult cells into epithelial stem cells (EpSCs), the first time anyone has achieved this in either humans or mice.

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Stem cells have also been identified in human milk, and have the potential to differentiate into mammary epithelial lineages under mammary differentiation conditions in vitro, as well as other cell types in corresponding microenvironments, including bone cells, brain cells, liver cells, pancreatic beta cells and heart cells.

Ten years ago, the team at Advanced Cell Technology announced that it had successfully converted human embryonic stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells.

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 EMT is a biological process wherein epithelial cells (cells that line the cavities and surfaces of blood vessels and organs) become mesenchymal (skeletal) stem cells that can move throughout the body and differentiate into a variety of cell types.

Starting with procedures other research teams had previously worked out to convert iPSCs into keratinocytes, Xu's team demonstrated that by carefully controlling the timing of the growth factors the cells received, they could force the iPSCs to generate large numbers of epithelial stem cells.

The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.

MimEX ™ Tissue Models System provides a platform for the isolation, expansion, and differentiation of adult epithelial stem cells into 3 - D ex vivo organ tissue.

Subsequent studies, as reviewed by Daniels et al. [11] and Lavker and Sun [12] showed that some cells located in the anterior limbus are stem cells which partially differentiate into transient amplifying cells while migrating centrally into the posterior epithelial layer of the cornea.

Using Cultrex ® BME, MimEX ™ Tissue Models System provides a platform for the isolation, expansion, and differentiation of adult epithelial stem cells into 3 - D ex vivo organ tissue.

The stem cells in the bulge are multipotent epithelial stem cells, and can become, or differentiate into, all the epithelial cell types in the follicle (including hair follicles, epidermis, and sebaceous glands)(Oshima et al., 2001).

The company has turned human embryonic stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells, which will be surgically implanted into the eye.