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.
Not exact matches
In a related paper published online today in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and
fibroblasts taken from
tail tips.
Skin - producing cells called
fibroblasts from the
tip of an adult mouse's
tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese researchers report online October 17 in Nature.