When injected into immunodeficient mice, the iPS cells grew
into neural tissue, cartilage, muscle, and forebears of cells that line the intestinal tract — representing all classes of tissue that give rise to a complete body.
A potency to develop
into neural tissue was a simple concept, but it was in fact totally vacuous since it could not be analyzed into anything else.
Not exact matches
Neural stem cells (bottom left) harbor a double - stranded RNA molecule (white spots, bottom right) not present in other
tissues (top) that helps them develop
into neurons.
Within a few days, the multiplying cells self - aggregate
into tiny balls of
neural tissue.
The free - floating cells multiplied and coalesced
into itty - bitty balls of
neural tissue.
Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change
into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or
tissue, such as muscle cells or
neural cells.
Atala's group claimed the cells could be prodded
into becoming
neural, bone, muscle, fat, and liver
tissue.
In addition, we were able to differentiate these cells
into neurons — and that's a characteristic of all
neural crest - derived
tissue and its progenitors»
During the spring and summer of 2009, Annese and his collaborators tinkered with the equipment needed to dissect H. M.'s
neural tissue into precise slices.
«We expect that a patient's central nervous system cells could migrate
into the implanted scaffold, adhere to it, grow and contribute to
neural tissue regeneration,» he says.
Several years ago, one of the students in Verma's lab noticed that BRCA1 is very active in the neuroectoderm, a sliver of embryonic
tissue containing
neural stem cells that divide and differentiate
into the brain's vast assortment of cell types and structures.
Natural
neural stem cells — cells that can develop
into other brain
tissues — are found deep in the brain, in the subventricular zone and hippocampus.
He said he used techniques to differentiate pluripotent stem cells
into cells that are designed to become
neural tissue, components of the central nervous system or other brain regions.
The self - renewable capacity of these cells, their ability to differentiate
into several
tissue progenitors (
neural, mesenchymal stem cells...), and the possibility to work with mutated cell lines define human stem cells as a good basis for screening compounds libraries in order to discover new potential drugs for monogenic diseases.
Microinjection of membrane - impermeable molecules
into single
neural stem cells in brain
tissue.
This enabled researchers to generate serial images that went deeper
into the
tissue as each top slice was removed — to follow fine
neural processes for hundreds of micrometers.
Neural Therapy is a gentle injection therapy technique that involves the injection of local anesthetic
into tissues such as peripheral nerves, scars, glands, acupuncture points and autonomic ganglia.
The
neural tube, according to the fact sheet, «is the embryonic structure that eventually develops
into the baby's brain and spinal cord and the
tissues that enclose them.»