... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Khan et al practical access, cellsfromthe IPFP are of interest as a potential source ofcells for the repair of focal cartilage defects in the knee [5] In previous ... reported in 2% oxygen [36] The effects of hypoxia on the propagation ofhuman bone marrow -derived stemcells suggested that 2% oxygen favoured more primitive stemcells with higher colony-forming ... Chondrogenic culture of IPFP cells and the effect of low oxygen tension The cultured cell aggregates of IPFP cells with chondrogenic medium showed evidence of induction of chondrogenesis under...
... of proteoglycans after pellet co-culture of disc cells with BM-MSC [20] Stimulation of disc cells with stemcells or CM could enhance the success of autologous implantation of disc cells In the ... & Therapy Vol 10 No Tapp et al Adipose -derived mesenchymal stemcells (AD-MSC) offer some advantages as an attractive, readily available adultstem cell because ofthe ease of harvest and their ... ratio of AD-MSC and annulus cells in coculture compared with the predicted value calculated fromthe sum ofthe proteoglycan contents of individual cultures of ADMSC and annulus cells Data from...
... another group reported the importance of Klf5 in mediating the self-renewal of mouse ESCs.59,60 They reported that the ablation of Klf5 prevented the successful derivation of mouse ESCs fromthe ... characteristics In another instance, pluripotent cells can also be derivedfromgermlinestemcells harvested from neonate mouse testes43 as well as adult testes44 Interestingly, parthenogenesis of an unfertilised ... the early developing embryo These versatile cells, known as embryonic stemcells (ESCs), are derivedfromthe epiblast ofthe early peri-implantation mouse embryo11 and are characterised by their...
... markers on their surface such as CD34 and CD133 allowing for the isolation of relatively pure populations of these cells for in vitro study ofthe cellular processes in thalassemic stemcells While ... While previous attempts have focused on the cell culture system, in this study the phosphoproteome ofthe primary cellsfromthe immediate collection of HSCs from patient blood or bone marrow was ... characterization of phosphorylation is critical to the elucidation of signal transduction pathways, the understanding ofthe mechanism of disease progression, and the development of therapeutic applications...
... markers on their surface such as CD34 and CD133 allowing for the isolation of relatively pure populations of these cells for in vitro study ofthe cellular processes in thalassemic stemcells While ... While previous attempts have focused on the cell culture system, in this study the phosphoproteome ofthe primary cellsfromthe immediate collection of HSCs from patient blood or bone marrow was ... characterization of phosphorylation is critical to the elucidation of signal transduction pathways, the understanding ofthe mechanism of disease progression, and the development of therapeutic applications...
... destruction ofthe extracellular matrix, and eventual damage to the affected joints [5,6] Although there have been many studies ofcells within the arthritic joint, the responses ofthe peripheral ... and members ofthe functional genomics group for helpful discussion, and the members ofthe Shou laboratory for critical reading ofthe manuscript We also acknowledge the support fromthe bioinformatics/IT ... Data from each probe set were fitted to the above model independently as is done in other studies [30,31] To control the false positive rate of testing the expression change of thousands of genes...
... staining of IPFPderived cells It was therefore interesting that they showed a pattern of expression on a high proportion ofthe IPFP -derived cells and of epitopes commonly abundant on adultstemcells ... stemcells [48] FGF2 is routinely used in the culture of bone marrow -derived mesenchymal stem cells, and we have determined a baseline for the use of FGF-2 in the culture of fat pad -derived cells ... characterisation of infrapatellar fat padderived cellsThe rate of proliferation ofthe IPFP -derived cells in monolayer culture was significantly increased by FGF-2 A comparison of their proliferation...
... possible The primitive oocyte-like cells in the ovarian surface epithelium of this patient might have persisted fromthe fetal period of life or developed fromthe putative stemcells in the ovarian ... search for the presence of putative stemcellsThe analysis confirmed the presence of round, SSEA-4 and SOX-2-positive primitive oocyte-like cells in the ovarian surface epithelium These cells resembled ... VASA-positive cells (arrows) in the ovarian surface epithelium and cortex (A, B) Smaller cells with diameters of to μm in the epithelium (C-F) Bigger cells with diameters of 10 μm in the epithelium...
... in human neuroepithelial-like stemcells for thegenerationof modified neuronal cultures 59 4.2 Generationof gene-corrected neural stemcellsfrom MJD patient -derived iPS cells ... Introduction 1.1 StemcellsStemcells have the remarkable potential to differentiate into specialized cells and thereby are key factors for the development ofthe whole organism All types ofstemcells ... dividing stem cell state 1.1.1 Human pluripotent stemcells Landmark discoveries ofthe young field ofhumanstem cell science were the isolation and culture of inner cell mass fromhuman blastocysts...
... ES cells and show that these marks occur independently ofthe recruitment of any lineage-specific transcription factors such as PU.1 Furthermore, they observe the presence of components ofthe ... recruitment of factors to the a-globin gene locus during the differentiation of erythroid cellsThe regulatory elements located upstream ofthe a-globin genes also appear to initiate the activation ofthe ... HS3, the HS2 ⁄ HS3 flanking region, HS2, and theadult b-globin gene 20 and 30% of CD34+ cells, which are known to express low levels oftheadult b-globin gene; this could explain the presence of...
... with many humanadultstemcellsThe application ofstem cell research to therapies for human disease will require much more knowledge about the biological properties of all types ofstemcells Although ... or the brain, in theadult body They can renew themselves in the body, making identical copies of themselves for the lifetime ofthe organism, or become specialized to yield the cell types ofthe ... into the various components ofthe blood and prevents them from developing into leukemic cells (Saito et al., 2000) OTHER ADULTSTEMCELLS During the past years, scientific reports ofstem cells...
... concentration in dogs anesthetized with isoflurane Am J Vet Res 2003, 64, 1155-1160 27 Ogawa R The importance of adipose -derived stemcells and vascularized tissue regeneration in the field of tissue transplantation ... HE Stem cell therapy for neurologic disorders: therapeutic potential of adipose -derived stemcells Curr Drug Targets 2005, 6, 57-62 33 Satake K, Lou J, Lenke LG Migration of mesenchymal stemcells ... Results Differentiation test of ASCs Adipogenic differentiation of ASCs was apparent after weeks of incubation with adipogenic medium By the end ofthe third week, half ofthecells contained Oil red...
... biology ofthe prostate: stem cell biology Urology 2003, 62:11-20 Bonkhoff H: Role ofthe basal cells in premalignant changes ofthehuman prostate: a stem cell concept for the development of prostate ... and stem cell characteristics ofthe transformed P63+ basal /stem cells, supporting that they could be the origin of PCSCs under the influence of persistent Hedgehog overexpression P63+ basal /stem ... in the P63+ basal/ stemcells Patch1 and Smo were found highly expressed in the P63+ basal /stem cellsofthe pCX-shh-IG-injected prostates, being located in the cell membrane of P63+ basal cells...
... clarified before the general application ofthe procedure The mechanism of regeneration is not yet clear It could be through direct differentiation ofstemcells that were introduced to the diseased ... presentations The following cases concern four different individuals Ofthe four, the first two cases involve bone regeneration in osteonecrosis of hips, the latter two cases regeneration of cartilage ... showed osteonecrosis ofthe femoral head, stage Since there is no effective non-surgical Page of treatment ofthe disease, she elected to receive stem cell treatment At the time of initial evaluation,...
... μl of PBS in the left ear DTH response was calculated as the percentage swelling (the difference between the increase of thickness ofthe right ear and the left ear, divided by the thickness of ... Results Generationof mesenchymal stemcells and phenotypical analysis The isolated mesenchymal stemcells differentiate into osteogenic and adipogenic lineages To assess the multipotentiality ofthe ... potential of MSCs in vitro, we tested their effect on the anti-CD3induced proliferation of CD4+ T cells T cells were stimulated in vitro with anti-CD3 antibody in the absence or presence of MSCs and their...
... radiographic damage [31] The MMPs are key mediators ofthe invasive phenotype of FLSs [32] Therefore, we further investigated the effect of UC-MSCs on the invasive behavior of FLSs by the Cell Migration/Invasion ... and the downregulated Th1/Th17 cells Furthermore, in the UC-MSCs treated mice, the expansion of Th2/Tregs and the production of anti-inflammatory IL-10 were elevated MSCs have the capability of ... [44] Therefore, reduction of MCP-1 could partly explain the absence of inflammatory infiltrates in the synovium of mice treated with human UC-MSCs Moreover, UC-MSCs increased the levels of the...
... that the PCR products were a reflection of de novo cDNA synthesis in the target cells and were not the result of contaminating plasmid DNA carried over fromthe transfection used to generate the ... (Applied Biosystems), μL of undiluted cDNA, and μL ofthe specified TaqMan Gene Expression Assay (Applied Biosystems) on either the 7900HT Fast RealTime PCR System (Applied Biosystems) or the CFX96 ... explore the effect of Vpx on HIV-1 transduction of myeloid cells after an antiviral state had been established by administration of exogenous type IFN Page of 16 Human monocyte -derived dendritic cells...
... Dendritic cells (DCs) are highly specialized antigen presenting cells that originate from bone marrow progenitor cells They represent a major cellular component ofthe innate immune system and their ... Table shows the corresponding protein data The factor of difference was calculated by dividing the intensity ofthe protein spot in mDCs by that ofthe corresponding spot in moDCs or KG-1 cells Eighteen ... then proceeded Despite the general similarities between mDCs and the two DC model systems, moDCs and KG-1 cells, our findings identified important differences between the proteomes of these cells, ...
... distribution ofcells throughout the scaffold structure It is also important for the diffusion of nutrients and gases and the removal of metabolic waste fromthecells growing within the scaffold The ... the use of porogens or any solvents Hence, there is no risk of undesirable residual substances left in the scaffold The physical nature ofthe process also does not change the properties ofthe ... single disulfide bond The disulfide linkage that holds the fibroin together is between the Cys-c20 (20th residue fromthe carboxyl terminus) ofthe heavy chain and Cys-172 ofthe light chain and...