... protein The naturally occurring fingers with known binding preference were disassembled to find fingers for all 64 different target triplets to enable the generation of zinc finger domains binding ... lt-NES cells 85 Gene corrected human neurons 86 Zinc finger nucleases for genetargetingin lt-NES cells 89 Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) in comparison to Transcription ... group developed a system of adenosine-releasing fibroblasts with inactivated adenosine kinase and adenosine deaminase These cells were transplanted into brain ventricles in a rat epilepsy model...
... iPSCs ISCN IVF Inner cell mass Imprinting control region mice Immunohistochemistry Immunofluorescence Inner root sheath Induced pluripotentstemcells International system for human cytogenetic nomenclature ... differentiated humanpluripotentstemcells is demonstrated in the subsequent chapter Karyotype stability of humanpluripotentstemcells is sensitive to growth conditions and to the manner in which cells ... antibodies into the blastocyst, thus leaving the ICM cells intact Incubation with guinea pig complement-containing medium then lyses all antibodymarked cells The intact ICM is further rinsed and...
... interrupted by the viral components Cytokines and chemokines generally function in an autocrine (on the producing cell itself) or paracrine (on nearby cells) manner Cytokines released following ... for growing stocks of influenza virus isolates MDCK cells were grown and maintained in Eagles Minimal Essential Media (MEM) containing 2% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin (all ... Cytokine/chemokine protein profiles following infection To verify whether changes at the mRNA level were translated to protein level, the protein concentrations of cytokines/chemokines in cell...
... reverse (decoy) IPI human protein database containing the sequences of the proteins harboring the porcine-specific proteins identified in this study Using the same filtering criteria used for ... differences in methods of CM generation A preliminary proteomics study demonstrated that NCA media conditions contained porcine alpha-2macroglobulin, clusterin and tenascin Intriguingly, these proteins ... species, including humans, during growth and aging, the NCs populating the NP disappear and are replaced by chondrocytic NP cells [33] The NP of some species retain notochord cells into maturity,...
... culture feeding 3.2.3 Human embryonic stemcells and induced pluripotentstemcellsHuman embryonic stem cell line HES-3 (46, XX) was from ES Cell International (Singapore, http://www.escellinternational.com) ... al., 2006) 2.7 Embryonic stemcells and induced pluripotentstemcells Embryonic stemcells (ESC) have two characteristics that distinguish them from other stem cells, in that they are capable ... forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and the spinal cord This figure was reproduced from Epstein et al., 1999 2.4 SHH and neural development During the initial phase of neural induction, the ectoderm is induced...
... (neuronal stem cells) , skin (epidermal stem cells) , eye (retinal stem cells) and gut (intestinal crypt stem cells) (Spradling et al 2001) However, 15 not all organs and tissues may contain stemcells ... experiments involving blastocyst injections and ectopic grafting in adult hosts cannot be performed in the human Animal embryonic stemcells Embryonic stemcells were first derived from certain strains ... into a totipotent state Definition of a stem cell Three basic categories of cells make up the human body viz., germ cells, somatic cells and stemcells Somatic cells include the bulk of the cells...
... [16,17] and mouse embryonic stemcells [18-20] The unique patterns of miRNA expression in embryonic stemcells suggest they are involved in maintaining "stemness" Identifying mRNAs that are directly ... upregulated in hES cells only, node C contained the genes upregulated in EB only, and node D contained the genes that were upregulated in adult cells HMVEC = human microvascular endothelial cells, ... greater in hES cells than in EB cells and it was not even 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...
... defects in humans [5,6] However, to date, the delivery of MSCs into cartilaginous lesions has neither clinically nor experimentally resulted in sustained regeneration of hyaline cartilage in vivo ... adenoviral delivery of individual cDNAs encoding BMP-2 or TGF-β1 into primary MSCs is capable of driving chondrogenesis in culture [19,20] In the present study, using adenoviralmediated gene transfer ... resuspended in complete DMEM (containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin), and plated at to × 107 nucleated cells per 75 cm2 flask (Falcon, Beckton Dickinson Labware, Franklin...
... higher in HMV-II cells than that in HeLa cells This observation was also seen in normal human epidermal melanocytes, and 624mel human melanoma cell lines examined (Fig 3B), and other human melanoma ... simultaneous binding of the two proteins to the GC1 ⁄ CA2 SOX10 and Sp1 bind to the EDNRB promoter in vivo To investigate whether SOX10 and ⁄ or Sp1 bind to the EDNRB genein vivo, chromatin immunoprecipitaion ... binding of SOX10 and Sp1 proteins to the GC1 ⁄ CA2, but were unable to detect the complexes, containing both SOX10 and Sp1 proteins (data not shown) It is conceivable that the in vitro binding...
... 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 in vitro two-dimensional culture on OP9 stromal cell line and examined the expression of VEGF-R2, VE-cadherin and TRA-1 during the ... neuroprotection in the ischemic brain human embryonic stemcells diferentiationon OP9 feeder Day 10 Day VEGF-R2(+) / VE-cadherin(+) / TRA-1(-) cells VEGF-R2(+) / VE-cadherin (-) / TRA-1 (-) cells expansion...
... particularly during carcinogenesis [31,18,19] Kandouz et al [18] revealed that a Connexin43 pseudogene [ψCx43] plays a functional role in some tumour cells The protein Connexin43, involved in intercellular ... cell lines HepG2 and Hek203T In summary our results suggest that Oct4 does not appear to be involved in adult stem cell multipotency, inhuman UCB progenitor cellsIn support of our findings, ... stem cells, using Oct4 gene ablation They show that Oct4 is dispensable for self-renewal in intestinal epithelium, bone marrow mesenchymal stemcells and HSC, hair follicle, brain and liver in...
... methylcytosine cells, chromatin of pluripotentcells appears to have unique features, such as the increased mobility of many structural chromatin proteins, including histones and heterochromatin protein ... Belmonte JC: Methods for making induced pluripotentstem cells: reprogramming a la carte Nat Rev Genet 2011, 12:231-242 Takahashi K, Yamanaka S: Induction of pluripotentstemcells from mouse embryonic ... signatures Cell Stem Cell 2009, 5:111-123 93 Chin MH, Pellegrini M, Plath K, Lowry WE: Molecular analyses of human induced pluripotentstemcells and embryonic stemcells Cell Stem Cell 2010,...
... by applying pluripotentstemcells including embryonic stemcells (Chapter 3) and induced pluripotentstemcells (Chapter 4) in the combination with gene delivery The tasks of these investigations ... Pluripotentstemcells 19 20 20 1.2.1.1.1 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 ... that contaminated cells are completely removed 1.2.1.1.2 Induced pluripotentstemcells Induced pluripotentstemcells (iPSCs) were first generated in the Takahashi and Yamanaka lab in 2006 by...
... fetal mesenchymal stemcells through paracrine signalling mechanisms in vitro and induces neovasculogenesis in vivo prior to bone repair Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International ... Carmeliet and Jain (Carmeliet and Jain 2000) (B) Sprouting of the endothelial cells is induced, resulting in tip cells migrating towards the hypoxic stimulus, with stalk cells following behind New vascular ... J Chan Human endothelial progenitor cells & bone marrow-derived human fetal mesenchymal stemcells potentiate osteogenesis via paracrine activity & induce neovasculogenesis in tissue engineered...
... 2001;Function and interactions of integrins Cell Tissue Res (3):285-298 41 Mould AP, Askari JA, Aota SI, et al 1997;Defining the topology of integrin alpha5beta1-fibronectin interactions using inhibitory ... differentiation of human mesenchymal stemcells on laminin-5 J Cell Biochem (2):499-514 102 Lozito TP, Kuo CK, Taboas JM, et al 2009 ;Human mesenchymal stemcells express vascular cell phenotypes upon interaction ... colony-forming cell and the haemopoietic stem cell Blood Cells (12):7-25 32 Moore KA, Lemischka IR 2006 ;Stem cells and their niches Science (5769):1880-1885 33 Lemischka IR, Moore KA 2003 ;Stem cells: interactive...
... 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...
... brings in new hope instem cell research especially in generating stemcells without any viral factors involved It also eases concerns on the safety use of induced pluripotentstemcellsin clinical ... deriving new cell lines using embryo The third way is through genetic manipulation of somatic cells to creat iPSCs 1.2.2.3 Induced pluripotentstem (iPS) cells: Induced pluripotentstem cells, ... specialized somatic cells and maintaining normal turnover of regenerative organs such as blood, skin and intestinal tissues 1.2.1 Significance in the use of stem cells: Through research into human growth...
... of mitomycin C-inactivated murine embryonic fibroblast feeder (MEF) cells [7, 8] These were harvested from CF1 inbred mouse strain purchased from Charles River Laboratories Inc (Wilmington, MA, ... pre-equilibrated culture media [15, 16] Indeed, minimizing low temperature exposure of human embryos and oocytes is a critical factor in determining the success of clinical assisted reproduction [15, ... analyzed using ISIS mBAND/mFISH imaging software (MetaSystems GmbH, Altlussheim, Germany) In the mFISH technique, each chromosome (1–22 and X and Y) is painted a different color, using combinatorial...
... release of cytokines upon V cholerae infection in intestinal epithelial cells Reports have shown the induction of IL-8 in intestinal epithelial cells upon V cholerae infection [11–13] The induction ... Cytokine response in infected epithelial cells A Bandyopadhaya et al Fig Induction of cytokine expression in intestinal epithelial cell lines by V cholerae (A) Int407 and T84 cells were infected ... RT-PCR in Int407 and T84 cells showed that all the proinflammatory cytokines, except IL-1a and IL-8, were induced to a greater extent in Int407 cells than in T84 cells upon V cholerae infection...