| Literature DB >> 20439100 |
Chuanying Pan1, Amy Hicks, Xuan Guan, Hong Chen, Colin E Bishop.
Abstract
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be derived from human somatic cells by cellular reprogramming. This technology provides a potential source of non-controversial therapeutic cells for tissue repair, drug discovery, and opportunities for studying the molecular basis of human disease. Normally, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) are used as feeder layers in the initial derivation of iPS lines. The purpose of this study was to determine whether SNL fibroblasts can be used to support the growth of human iPS cells reprogrammed from somatic cells using lentiviral expressed reprogramming factors. In our study, iPS cells expressed common pluripotency markers, displayed human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) morphology and unmethylated promoters of NANOG and OCT4. These data demonstrate that SNL feeder cells can support the derivation and maintenance of human iPS cells. Copyright 2010 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and the Genetics Society of China. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20439100 PMCID: PMC3768137 DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(09)60042-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Genet Genomics ISSN: 1673-8527 Impact factor: 4.275