... long-term culture, expansion and manipulation ofhumanpluripotentstemcells The culmination of two events has enabled the production ofhuman embryonic stem cells: the birth of the first IVF test-tube ... of our team’s experience, skill and knowledge in the derivation, culture and expansion ofhuman embryonic stem cells, and more recently, ofhuman induced pluripotentstemcells The exploration ... Morphology ofHuman Embryonic StemCells and Induced PluripotentStemCells Cultured in Feeder Layer-Free Conditions 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Materials for Feeder Layer-Free Culture of...
... stemcells versus embryonic stemcells The general differences between the characteristics of adult and embryonic stemcells are summarised in Table The contention that somatic stemcells alone ... statement in stem cell biology today is the importance of standardizing culture conditions Culture conditions have a profound effect onstem cell self-renewal, differentiation and possibly onstem cell ... isolation and characterization of hEG cell lines hEG cells are pluripotent and are capable of forming all primordial germ layers (Shamblott et al 1998; 2001) Embryonic stemcells Embryonic stem cells...
... induced pluripotentstem cell; H2AZ, histone variant H2AZ; H3ac, acetylation of histone H3; H4ac, acetylation of histone H4; H3K4me1/2/3, (mono-, di- and tri) methylation of lysine of histone H3; ... H3; H3K27ac, acetylation of lysine 27 of histone H3; H3K27me3, trimethylation of lysine 27 of histone H3; H3K36me3, trimethylation of lysine 36 of histone H3; MacroH2A, histone variant MacroH2A; ... cell type of origin used to derive iPSC (c) H3K4me1, methylation of lysine of histone H3; H3K4me3, trimethylation of lysine of histone H3; H3K27ac, acetylation of lysine 27 of histone H3; H3K27me3,...
... Marshall VS, Jones JM Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts Science 1998;282(5391):1145-7 Reubinoff BE, Pera MF, Fong CY, Trounson A, Bongso A Embryonic stem cell lines from human ... with weak expression of SSEA3 and TRA-1-81 A total of 200 colonies were examined for each experimental group, as well as for the control Statistical comparison of data was performed by the Chi-squared ... differentiation in vitro Nat Biotechnol 2000;18(4):399-404 Richards M, Fong CY, Tan S, Chan WK, Bongso A An efficient and safe xeno-free cryopreservation method for the storage ofhuman embryonic stem cells...
... in human embryonic stem (ES) cells [16,26], mouse ES cells[ 20] or Page 12 of 17 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:20 human EB [17] depending on ... transcriptional network for pluripotency of embryonic stemcells Cell 2008, 132(6):1049-1061 Heo JS, Lee MY, Han HJ: Sonic hedgehog stimulates mouse embryonic stem cell proliferation by cooperation of ... undifferentiated and differentiated human embryonic stemcellsStemCells Dev 2007, 16(6):1003-1016 Page 15 of 17 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:20 18...
... Expression of BMP-2 and chordinstem cells during osteogenic differentiation ofhuman mesenchymal stemcells (a) Temporal progression of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2 and chordin expression during ... F, Avioli LV, Cheng SL: Regulation of bone matrix protein expression and induction of differentiation ofhuman osteoblasts and human bone marrow stromal cells by bone morphogenetic protein-2 J ... 10 No Kwong et al Figure Transfection efficiency of siRNA in relation to concentration Final concentration of small interfering RNA (siRNA) in culture media in nanomoles/litre concentration (nM)...
... proximity of the cells to the joint space and the bone Page 10 of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) respectively, alignment of the chondrocytes along the arcades of Benninghoff [29] and ... level of BMP signaling is required for the onset of chondrogenesis, and hence some chondrogenic condensations failed to form in limbs deficient in both BMP-2 and BMP-4 [43] However, in the condensations ... although dispensable for bone formation, is required for the initiation of fracture healing Nat Genet 2006, 38:1424-1429 46 Goldring MB, Tsuchimochi K, Ijiri K: The control of chondrogenesis J Cell...
... differentiation of size-sieved stemcells into electrically active neural cellsStemCells 2002, 20(6):522-529 Tzeng SF, Tsai MJ, Hung SC, Cheng H: Neuronal morphological change of size-sieved stemcells ... from mesenchymal stemcells in Wharton’s Jelly of the human umbilical cord for transplantation to control type diabetes PLoS ONE 2008, 3(1):e1451 Liu M, Han ZC: Mesenchymal stem cells: biology ... increases the activation of Akt and ERK (A) MSCs were induced for differentiation without (Control) or with FN or LAM, and western blotting was done for stage III cells Quantification of western blotting...
... USA) before culture to analyze cell proliferation T cells were resuspended in PBS 5% FCS at a concentration of to × 10 cells/ ml and incubated with CFSE (final concentration of 50 μM) for minutes ... treatment for CIA are inconclusive This is in contrast to transfer of Treg cellsfor the treatment of CIA When mice are injected with × 106 Treg cells either before immunization or after disease onset, ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/1/R31 Page of 11 Figure Phenotype and differentiation potential of mesenchymal stemcells (MSCs) Bone marrow cellsof DBA/1 wild-type and interferon-gamma receptor...
... native bone (bone structure, bone cells, bone formation and bone repair), bone grafts and available bone graft substitutes, stem cell response to biomaterial topography, the importance of nanofibers ... images of bone nodules (indicated by arrows) produced by human MSCs of passage on the PLLA nanofibers and TCPS plates (control) in the Ost medium after 21 days ofculture The cellson the nanofibrous ... nanofibers was considerably lower than on the TCPS plates In Figures c and d, the expression levels of BSP and WNT5A of the cellson the nanofibers were significantly higher than on the controls...
... restriction of differentiated cells is undone The resultant cells, known colloquially as induced pluripotentstemcells (iPSCs), become akin to pluripotent embryonic stemcells (ESCs) and pluripotent ... SCREEN OF NUCLEAR RECEPTORS FOR THE ENHANCED AND ALTERNATIVE GENERATION OF INDUCED PLURIPOTENTSTEMCELLS DOMINIC HENG JIAN CHIEN (B.Sc (Hons), NTU) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ... in the modulation of gene regulation This transcriptional control is highly conserved from the simplest of model organism such as yeast to the highly complex of mammals such as us humans Strikingly,...
... proliferation and differentiation of rat mesenchymal stemcellsStemCells Dev (4):661-670 69 Edlund U, Dånmark S, Albertsson AC 2008;A strategy for the covalent functionalization of resorbable polymers ... differentiation ofhuman mesenchymal stemcells Exp Cell Res (1):22-37 101 Salasznyk RM, Klees RF, Boskey A, et al 2007;Activation of FAK is necessary for the osteogenic differentiation ofhuman mesenchymal ... mesenchymal stemcells from marrow Tissue Eng (4):415-428 129 Beresford JN, Graves SE, Smoothy CA 1993;Formation of mineralized nodules by bone derived cells in vitro: a model of bone formation? Am J...
... the effects of the baculoviral transduction of the human embryonic stemcells were investigated The transduction ofhuman embryonic stemcells by baculovirus vectors had no effects on the cell ... ABBREVIATIONS XIII CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 General Introduction 1.1.1 Human Embryonic StemCells 1.1.2 Non-Viral Genetic Modification Systems for hES Cells ... level of transient transgene expression in human embryonic stemcells Efficient gene transfers to human embryonic stemcells were obtained after optimization of the promoters and modulators Second,...
... isolation and cultureof ICM cells with stem cell-like morphology from human blastocysts (Fig 1.1A) though cultures failed beyond passages The first long-term culture (4-5 months) ofhuman embryonic ... Embryonic stemcells The isolation of mouse and human embryonic stemcells (ES cells) heralded a new era in regenerative medicine, raising hopes for effective cellular therapies to treat conditions ... identity of these cells was established by the expression of relevant markers like CD45, CD14, CD34, CD83 and CD86 and the formation of colony forming units in methylcellulose cultures The combination...
... bone formation using StemCells 20 MATERIAL & METHODS 23 2.1 Culture and maintenance ofHuman Embryonic StemCells 23 2.2 Initiation of osteogenic differentiation ... Derivation of HES cells 15 1.5.2 Expansion and maintenance of pluripotency of HES cells 16 1.5.3 Characterization of hES cells 18 1.6 Differentiation of hES cells into ... ofcells into scaffolds 12 1.3.4 Cell source for cell-based tissue engineering for bone regeneration 12 1.4 Stemcells in bone repair 13 1.5 Human Embryonic stem cells...
... Summary V List of Tables VII List of Figures VIII List of Abbreviations IX Introduction 1.1 1.2 Human embryonic stemcells 1.1.1 Overview and characteristics ofhuman embryonic stemcells 1.1.2 ... methods 22 2.1 Cultureofhuman ES cell line 22 2.1.1 Preparation of feeder cells 22 2.1.2 Maintenance ofhuman ES cells 22 2.1.3 Preparation of embryoid bodies 22 2.2 Cultureof NCCIT cell line ... expression profiles upon differentiation and as such are not really ideal markers for assessment of the differentiation status ofhuman ES cells (Bhattacharya et al., 2005) Analysis of expression profile...
... Embryonic stemcells 20 1.2.1.1.2 Induced pluripotentstemcells 21 1.2.1.2 Adult stemcells 23 1.2.1.2.1 Mesenchymal stemcells 23 1.2.1.2.2 Neural stemcells 23 1.2.2 Clinical relevance ofstem ... identified Pluripotentstemcells including embryonic stemcells and induced pluripotentstemcells may hold the answer to this question VIII From that point of view, we conducted investigations to ... Except for totipotent stemcells consisting of zygotes and their offspring cells from the first few divisions, pluripotentstemcells are the most powerful cells that are capable of giving rise to...
... valuable information only if the alterations are gross and of the order of a micron or fraction thereof AFM provides the advantage of directly observing spermatozoa in their native environment thereby ... region may often lead to the loss of functional competence of the spermatozoa The major advantage of AFM in pathological studies of spermatozoa is that it allows the evaluation of position and form ... region c Power spectrum of the above profile showing the scaling of roughness d Histogram plot of the height of the head region e 3D image of the head region of the spermatozoa mechanical response...
... transplanted cells derived from human ES cells We induced differentiation ofhuman ES cells in an in vitro two-dimensional cultureon OP9 stromal cell line and examined the expression of VEGF-R2, ... transplantation ofhuman mononuclear cells (hMNCs), which contain a very small population of EPCs (Ϲ 0.02%) [7], to examine the non-specific influences due to the cell transplantation itself The ... Neu-N (Chemicon, 1:200), and single stranded DNA (Dako Cytomation, 1:100) Immunohistochemical examination of cultured cells Staining of cultured cellson dishes at 5th passage was performed as described...