... Medicine 2009, 7:6 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/6 CD34+ Figure stemcells transdifferentiated in muscle cellsinvitro CD34+ stemcells transdifferentiated in muscle cellsin ... amplified in co-cultures, indicating the absence or very low expression of dystrophin in co-cultures (data not shown) Transdifferentiation of CD34+ stemcells into muscle cells During the expansion ... when murine bone marrow stemcells fused to murine embryonicstemcells [29] However, the real meaning of fusion versus transdifferentiation is still controversial [30-33] Adult stemcells transplantation...
... Foundation, and Parkinson's Action Network, as well as the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation This type of federal research funding strategy involving existing embryonicstem cell lines is consistent ... funding of research involving the more than 60 existing stem cell lines, but will not sanction or encourage destruction of additional human embryos Indeed, the embryos from which the existing ... Fischbach GD, Fischbach RL: Stem cells: science, policy, and ethics J Clin Invest 2004, 114:1364-1370 Donovan PJ, Gearhart J: The end of the beginning for pluripotent stemcells Nature 2001, 414:92-97...
... Translational Medicine 2008, 6:54 cells, the number (cells/ mm2/mouse) of single stranded DNA (ss-DNA)+ cellsin one field in the ischemic core from each mouse in the saline- or hES-ECs+MCs-injected group ... human ES cells We induced differentiation of human ES cellsin an invitro two-dimensional culture on OP9 stromal cell line and examined the expression of VEGF-R2, VE-cadherin and TRA-1 during the ... VEGF-R2-positive cells induced from undifferentiated mouse embryonicstem (ES) cells can differentiate into both VE-cadherin-positive endothelial cells (ECs) and αSMA-positive mural cells (MCs),...
... human [16,17] and mouse embryonicstemcells [18-20] The unique patterns of miRNA expression inembryonicstemcells suggest they are involved in maintaining "stemness" Identifying mRNAs that are ... expression profiling of single whole embryonicstemcells Nucleic Acids Res 2006, 34(2):e9 Chen C, Ridzon D, Lee CT, Blake J, Sun Y, Strauss WM: Defining embryonicstem cell identity using differentiation-related ... detected in adult cells The expression of miR-520b was 26-fold greater in hES cells then in EB cells (P < 0.05) and it was detected only in two types of adult cells HMVEC and HUVEC Differences in the...
... doxorubicin was contained in the culture to maintain K562/AO2 cells drug resistance in its daily culture The inhibition of cell growth was measured by MTT (Microculture Tetrazolium) assay Initially, ... attracted a great deal of attention in fabricating continuous ultrafine fibers or fibrous structures for various polymers, with typical examples including engineering plastics, biopolymers and polymer ... leukemia cells and lead to the much higher intracellular drug concentration in the target cells, resulting in the remarkable enhancement of the intracellular fluorescence of drug-resistant leukemia cells...
... conditions in mouse embryonicstemcells Methods Mouse embryonicstem cell culture The mouse embryonicstem (MES) cells (CCE-24) were routinely grown on 0.1% gelatin-coated dishes in Dubecco’s ... hindering the access for the long form protein, thus having an advantage to be evolutionarily selected and maintained Since the truncated protein itself does not contain the c-terminal cysteines, ... predicted open reading frame Thin lines indicate exon-exon junctions A The thick line points to the junction of exon and skipping exon in the truncated form but is included in the long form of...
... of stemcells into the osteogenic lineage invitro J Bone Miner Res 2004, 19:1379-1394 Page of 38 Trounson A: Human embryonicstem cells: mother of all cell and tissue types Reprod Biomed Online ... cultivation in the presence of osteoinductive stimuli Numerous living cells were detected in the mineralized centre of the spheres by means of toluidine blue staining (Figure 1) Generally, the mineralization ... units up to 0.4 mm in diameter was established Feeder-independent murine embryonicstemcells (ESCs) were kindly provided by K Pfeffer (Institute for Microbiology, Heinrich Heine University of...
... sources including autologous cells as well as allogenic and xenogenic cells [13-16] There are some reports that use totipotential embryonicstemcellsin tissue engineering of bone [17,18] Embryonic ... BMP-2 Shown are von Kossa stainings with arrows pointing to the deposition of calcium phosphate-containing minerals that stained in black Figure LIF, stem cell PCR showing amplification of the without ... The increase in reaction products during PCR was monitored by measuring the increase in fluorescence intensity caused by the binding of SYBR green to doublestranded DNA that accumulated during...
... nine of the genes down-regulated in response to seasonal H1N1 influenza virus (but not pdmH1N1) encode zinc finger proteins, including ZNF175 ZNF175 contains 13 zinc fingers and a KRAB domain, ... ZNF8 genes with expression in seasonal H1N1 infected cells being lower than pdmH1N1 infected cells was maintained Over-representation analysis using InnateDB To determine the biological relevance ... seasonal influenza viruses in its induction of cytokine responses in human macrophages and epithelial cells [2-4] This suggests that the cytokine dysregulation seen in H5N1 infection is not an intrinsic...
... After rinsing in PBS, the sections were exposed to biotinylated-mAb (Vectastain, Vector Laboratories Inc., Burlingame, CA) for 30 min, rinsed with PBS and then incubated with Steptavidin-HRP ... virus proteins within the DC during a spreading infection (Figure 3B) In comparison to thymic DC cultures, we did not detect a statistically significant difference in EGFP+ cellsin blood pDC ... for 30 Immunostaining was revealed using 3,3’-Diaminobenzidine substrate solution according to the manufacturer’s guidelines (Dako) Sections were counterstained with haematoxylin and blued with...
... by genotyping The ES cell lines were maintained in the undifferentiated state by culturing on gelatinized plates in KO-DMEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) supplemented with leukemia inhibitory ... chromatin components In this regard, compensatory chromatin modifications have been previously described, including an increase in H3K27me3 levels in Suv39h1/h2 deficient ES cells [25] Minor and ... was seen in Dicer KO cells (17 compared with in matched wild-type cells) Increased minor and major satellite transcripts were also seen in Eed deficient ES cells but not in other mutant lines that...
... system in generating genome-wide homozygous mutations to facilitate recessive genetic screens invitro by identifying mCat-1 as a critical gene in ES cells that is required for retroviral infection ... high infection efficiency must be achieved so that every single infectable cell in the culture has at least one infection event In practice, the need to infect every cell in a culture of 109 cells ... on ES cells after a single round of infection with 0.1 ml viral supernatant are illustrated by staining puromycin-resistant colonies in 24-well plates Figure (see following page) Super-infection...
... undifferentiated cells and differentiated cells of multiple lineages EC cells could be maintained indefinitely with mitotically inactivated embryonic fibroblast in vitro, and is able to give rise to cells ... state of ES cells for invitro feeder free culture, in vivo ICM cells are able to develop into ES cellsin the absence of LIF signaling, indicating that alternative pathways might be involved Recent ... These cells were initially maintained in culture as self-renewal and pluripotent cell lines in either EC cell-conditioned medium (Martin, 1981), or in a co-culture system in which cells were grown...
... culture feeding 3.2.3 Human embryonicstemcells and induced pluripotent stemcells Human embryonicstem cell line HES-3 (46, XX) was from ES Cell International (Singapore, http://www.escellinternational.com) ... effective invitro system to study complex events underlying human nervous system development (Ben-Nun and Benvenisty, 2006; Dvash et al., 2006) 2.7 Embryonicstemcells and induced pluripotent stemcells ... importance of SHH in early mammalian development, there is significant value in studying its function in human embryonicstemcells (hESC), which are invitro counterparts of the inner cell mass...
... joint consensus motif in the Oct4 and Sox2 ChIP-PET datasets 6.5 Binding of Oct4 and Sox2 overexpressed (OE) proteins on biotin-labelled DNA probes containing Oct4 and Sox2 binding sites using ... protein kinase (MAPK) and extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) protein kinase; SMAD: similar to mothers against decapentaplegic homologue; SHP2: SH2-domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphate-2; ... repression in somatic cells and loss of Gcnf-induced restriction of Oct4 in the germ line The same phenotype is observed in Gcnf-deficient mice containing a targeted deletion of the DNA-binding domain...
... cells Multipotent stemcells can give rise to cells of certain specialized lineages Many adult stemcells are multipotent, including hematopoietic stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and other ... embryonic tissues to extra-uterine sites resulted in teratocarcinoma formation (Solter et al., 1970; Stevens, 1970) This finding indicates the embryonic origin of teratocarcinoma stemcellsIn ... nuclear factor homeobox containing protein family, inner cell mass inhibitor of differentiation insulin-like growth factor receptor JmjC domain-containing proteins leukaemia inhibitory factor liver...
... transcripts zinc finger protein 42 zinc finger protein 143 zinc finger protein of the cerebellum XI Introduction CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Introduction CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Stemcells can be identified ... CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Pluripotent stemcells 1.1.1 Mouse embryonic carcinoma cells 1.1.2 Mouse embryonicstemcells 1.1.3 Mouse embryonic germ cells and pluripotent spermatogonial stemcells ... to activation of a MAP kinase signaling cascade, including MAP kinase, MAP kinase kinase (MKK), and MAP kinase kinase kinase (MKKK) 16 Introduction Much evidence has indicated that the Ras-Mek-Erk...
... staining (b) H1 von Kossa staining (c) hFOB H & E staining (d) hFOB von Kossa staining Figure At 4-week time point: H&E staining and von Kossa staining of sections showing scaffolds devoid of cells ... hFOB H & E staining (d) hFOB von Kossa staining Scaffold (e) hFOB H & E staining Figure At 2-week time point: H&E staining and von Kossa staining of sections showing scaffold and cells (e) hFOB ... time-point: (a) (c) nuclear staining with DAPI (b) Immunostaining with bone specific ALP (arrow showing the cells positive for ALP stain) (d) Immunostaining with osteonectin (arrow showing cells...
... applications 1.2.2.2 Embryonicstem cells: Another type of stemcells by conventional categorization is embryonicstemcells based on its origin from the fertilized egg In 1981, embryonicstemcells (ESC) ... somatic cells They repeatedly introduce certain proteins channeled into the cells via poly-arginine anchors and sufficiently induced pluripotency[45] This new technique brings in new hope instem ... These included substituted purines, pyrimidines, indoles, quinazolines, pyrazines, pyrrolopyrimidines, pyrazolopyrimidines, phthalazines, pyridazines and quinoxalines[55] High-throughput screens...