For EBI2 transduction of BM - derived cells, BM cells were harvested 4 days after 5 - flurouracil (Sigma) injection and cultured in the presence of recombinant IL - 3, IL - 6, and
mouse stem cell factor (SCF)(100 ng / ml; Peprotech; Rocky Hill, NJ).
Not exact matches
«Physical forces are certainly a
factor in getting the lung lining to be fully functional,» says Anne Bishop at Imperial College London, who has made alveolar
cells from
mouse stem cells using growth
factors alone.
He and his collaborators found that three transcription
factors, when targeted to the pancreas of a living
mouse, converted fully formed, non-insulin-producing pancreatic
cells into
cells that were functionally identical to insulin - producing
cells — no
stem cells required.
All of the
mice produced normal amounts of SOX2 during development, when the transcription
factor plays a critical role in the genesis of embryonic and neural
stem cells.
«Deletion of a
stem cell factor promotes traumatic brain injury recovery in
mice.»
A Korean team led by Director of the Center for Genome Engineering Jin - Soo Kim, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Professor Dong - Wook Kim at Yonsei University has experimented with hemoplia A-derived induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs) and hemoplia
mice and found a way to correct this inversion and reverse the clotting
factor deficiency that causes hemophilia A.
A group of scientists led by Sebastian Jessberger of the Brain Research Institute showed now that also the
stem cells of the adult
mouse brain asymmetrically segregate aging
factors between the mother and the daughter
cells.
Focusing on two proteins known as transcription
factors, the researchers showed that genetically removing the two transcription
factors, Tcf1 and Lef1, in
mice is sufficient to prevent leukemia
stem cells from persisting.
Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first cultured sperm
stem cells in the lab, has written that culturing
stem cells from human sperm is not far off — humans and
mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth
factors.
Expanding from their previous studies with
mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic
stem cells with fibroblast growth
factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.
The research team selectively overexpressed a transcription
factor, Klf9, only in older neurons in
mice, which eliminated more than one - fifth of their dendritic spines, increased the number of new neurons that integrated into the hippocampus circuitry by two-fold, and activated neural
stem cells.
Researchers identify a network of a dozen transcription
factors needed to maintain the pluripotent state of
mouse embryonic
stem cells.
Mouse embryonic stem cells stained for key pluripotency markersGRAZIANO MARTELLO Combining computer science algorithms with biological data has enabled researchers to create a model of the minimal number of factors necessary for mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to self - renew in cul
Mouse embryonic
stem cells stained for key pluripotency markersGRAZIANO MARTELLO Combining computer science algorithms with biological data has enabled researchers to create a model of the minimal number of
factors necessary for
mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to self - renew in cul
mouse embryonic
stem cells (ESCs) to self - renew in culture.
It has recently been demonstrated that
mouse and human fibroblasts can be reprogrammed into an embryonic
stem cell - like state by introducing combinations of four transcription
factors.
«Induction of Pluripotent
Stem Cells From
Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined
Factors,» by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka,
Cell, Aug. 25, 2006.
They made adult fibroblastic
mouse cells become essentially
mouse embryonic
stem cells, in appearance and function, by forcing the fibroblasts to express four key embryonic
stem cell factors: Oct - 4, Sox2, Klf4, and c - Myc.
By generating
mice and NSCs mutated in the Sox2 transcription
factor (active in many
stem cell types), we are beginning to understand Sox2 functions and molecular targets in neural
cells (Favaro et al., Nat.Neurosci.
The finding is based on studies of
mice with altered levels of the growth
factor PDGF in neural
stem cells, which play a key role in the development of the eye.
They made adult
mouse cells become essentially
mouse embryonic
stem cells, in appearance and function, by forcing the adult
cells to produce four key protein
factors.
Citation: Li C, Yu H, Ma Y, Shi G, Jiang J, Gu J, et al. (2009) Germline - Competent
Mouse - Induced Pluripotent
Stem Cell Lines Generated on Human Fibroblasts without Exogenous Leukemia Inhibitory
Factor.
Research Interests: Molecular control of
cell fate from stemness to differentiated skeletal and neuronal
cell types; SOX transcription
factors; skeletal malformation and degeneration diseases; intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders;
mouse genetic models; human pluripotent
stem cell differentiation models in vitro
Studies using a
mouse model of type 1 diabetes highlight a potential role for human adipose
stem cells in treatment regimens and, further, they reveal a secreted
factor which has important therapeutic relevance
Pluripotent
stem cells can be generated from adult
mouse - tail tip fibroblasts and adult human fibroblasts by the retrovirus - mediated transfection of four transcription
factors, Oct3 / 4, Sox2, c - Myc, and Klf4.
By introducing the genes for four
factors that turn genes on and off, he induced the skin
cells of adult
mice to become like embryonic
stem cells, which he called induced pluripotent
stem (iPS)
cells.
They went on to show that Sox10, a
factor needed for the formation of skin pigment
cells from neural crest
stem cells during development, was present at high levels in naevi and melanoma samples obtained from both the
mouse model and human patients.
Of note,
mouse neural
stem cells (NSCs) were reprogrammed using only one (Oct4) or two
factors (Oct4 and Klf4), due to the endogenously high expression of pluripotent genes, such as Sox2 and c - Myc, as well as several intermediate reprogramming markers [14], [17], [18].
The pathways that connect expression of
stem cell surface glycoconjugates such as the TRA -1-60 / GCTM - 2 antigen, receptors, and growth
factors in human and even
mouse ES
cells with the transcriptional networks that regulate pluripotency remain unclear.
Collectively, these data demonstrate that youthful circulating
factors can restore the self - renewal and differentiation potential of aged SVZ
stem cells, and this effect can persist for some time after isolation from the
mouse brain.