Yazarlar, Çocuk Hastanesi, Orange County hNSPC kültürleri Araştırma Enstitüsü Ulusal İnsan Nöral Kök Hücre Kaynak Dr. Philip H. Schwartz kabul etmek istiyorum.

Not: Pasajlanması İnsan Nöral Kök Hücreler makale (bakın <a href="/index/Details.stp?ID=263">https://www.jove.com/index/Details.stp?ID=263</a> ) ve Sayım İnsan Nöral Kök Hücreler makale ( <a href="/index/Details.stp?ID=262">https://www.jove.com / index / Details.stp? ID = 262</a> hNSPCs tekrar süspansiyon ve saymak nasıl öğrenmek için). Hazırlık <ol><li> Transfeksiyon için kullanılabilir hücreleri bol miktarda (her DNA için birkaç milyon hücreleri transfekte) olduğuna emin olun. </li><li> Transfekte hücreler 10 mcg / ml insan fibronektin transfeksiyon bir gece önce, seribaşı olacak içine Coat doku kültürü tabak,. Sağ transfeksiyon protokolü başlamadan önce, fibronektin kaldırmak, tabak PBS ile durulama ve çanak kültür ortamı. Ortamı ısıtmak için 37 ° C doku kültürü inkübatör çanak bırakın. Ayrıca, önceden sıcak 37 ° C inkübatör 1 ml kültür ortamı </li><li> Transfekte DNA (ler), ve buz üzerinde transfeksiyon çözüm (Amaxa) yerleştirin. </li></ol> Transfeksiyon <ol><li> PBS (genellikle x 106 hücre transfeksiyon başına ~ 5) hücreleri belirli bir sayıda yıkayın. Pelet santrifüjle (1000 rpm 5 dakika boyunca (~ 200xg)) hücreleri tarafından mümkün olduğu kadar çok PBS olarak kaldırmak ve 100 ul transfeksiyon kiti ile sağlanan transfeksiyon çözüm hücre pelletini tekrar süspansiyon haline getirin. Hücre süspansiyonu, 1.7 ml Eppendorf tüpüne aktarın. </li><li> Hücre süspansiyonu ul DNA 5 (transfeksiyon ortalama DNA ~ 5-10 mg) ekleyin ve hafifçe karıştırın. </li><li> Amaxa mini-pipet kullanarak, hücre DNA karışımı Amaxa transfeksiyon küvet içine aktarın. 1 ml, sonraki adım için önceden ısıtılmış kültür ortamı olduğundan emin olun. Ayrıca, inkübatör, hücre çanak kültür ortamı ile kaldırmak ve doku kültürü kaputu yerleştirin. </li><li> Küvet Nucleofector koyun, tekerleği saat yönünde döndürmek ve programı &quot;A-033&quot; i seçin. Enter tuşuna basın. </li><li> Başarılı bir transfeksiyon küvet çözüm üstünde kabarcıklar çok yoğun bir tabakanın varlığı ile gösterilir. Küvet içinde 500 ul sıcak medya ekleyin ve Amaxa mini-pipet kullanarak transfekte hücreler, önceden ısıtılmış medya ile çanak içine aktarın. Küvet daha sıcak bir ortam ile durulayın ve aynı bulaşık durulama ekleyin. 37 ° C doku kültürü inkübatör hücreleri ile çanak yerleştirin. </li></ol>

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	<li>Gresch, O., Engel, F. B., Nesic, D., Tran, T. T., England, H. M., Hickman, E. S., Krner, I., Gan, L., Chen, S., Castro-Obregon, S., Hammermann, R., Wolf, J., M ller-Hartmann, H., Nix, M., Siebenkotten, G., Kraus, G., Lun, K. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&doptcmdl=Citation&defaultField=Title+Word&term=New+non-viral+method+for+gene+transfer+into+primary+cells.">New non-viral method for gene transfer into primary cells.</a> Methods. 33, 151-163 (2004).</li><li>Marchenko, S., Flanagan, L. A. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&doptcmdl=Citation&defaultField=Title+Word&term=Passaging+Human+Neural+Stem+Cells.">Passaging Human Neural Stem Cells.</a> Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7, (2007).</li><li>Marchenko, S., Flanagan, L. A. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&doptcmdl=Citation&defaultField=Title+Word&term=Counting+Human+Neural+Stem+Cells.">Counting Human Neural Stem Cells.</a> Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7, (2007).</li></ol>

Bu protokol hNSPCs için oldukça hızlı ve verimli bir transfeksiyon prosedürü açıklamaktadır. Bu yordamı kullanarak, biz, yaklaşık% 35 ilk transfeksiyon verimlilik elde edilmiştir. Bu yordamı transfekte Hücreler bir seçim aracı stably transfekte nüfus üretmek için kullanılır ise kısa vadeli çalışmalar için (geçici olarak transfekte hücreler) ya da uzun vadeli çalışmalar için kullanılabilir. Biz eksojen protein ifade hücrelerin% 70 ~ hangi stabil transfekte hücreleri oluşturulur. Geçici transfekte hNSPCs,...

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transfecting human neural stem cells with the amaxa nucleofector

Yaygın olarak kullanılan katyonik lipid transfeksiyon ayıraçları ile insan sinir kök / prekürsör hücrelerinin (hNSPCs) gibi birincil memeli sinir hücreleri, Transfeksiyon genellikle kötü hücre canlılığı ve düşük transfeksiyon verimliliği sonuçlandı. Böyle bir gen tabancası veya mikroenjeksiyon gibi ilgi bir gen, tanıtan diğer mekanik yöntemler de kötü hücre canlılığı ve transfekte hücreleri düşük numaraları ile sınırlıdır. Birincil hücre içine dışsal bir gen tanıtmak için viral yapıları kullanarak strateji viral vektörler ve potansiyel güvenlik endişeleri oluşturmak için gerekli zaman ve emek miktarı hem de kısıtlı olmuştur. Biz burada, nöral kök hücreler transfecting için özel olarak optimize edilmiş elektrik akımı parametreleri ve tampon çözeltiler Amaxa Nucleofector cihaz ve teknoloji kullanarak hNSPCs transfecting için bir adım-adım protokolünü açıklar. Bu protokolü kullanarak, biz, yaklaşık% 35 ilk transfeksiyon verimlilik elde etti ve istikrarlı bir transfeksiyon sonra% 70 ~. Protokol Nucleofector cihaz ile elektroporasyon uygun tampon transfekte DNA ile hNSPCs yüksek sayıda birleştirerek gerektirir.

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Transfecting Human Neural Stem Cells with the Amaxa Nucleofector

Bir ilgi bir hücreye gen Tanıtımı in vivo fonksiyonu nedenlerine açıklık için güçlü bir yöntemdir. Bu protokol Amaxa tarafından yapılan Nucleofector elektroporasyon cihazları kullanırken insan nöral kök / prekürsör hücrelerinin (hNSPCs) bir kültür transfecting verimli bir yöntem açıklanır.

Amaxa Nucleofector İnsan Sinir Kök Hücreler Transfecting

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23.4K Görüntüleme.  University of California, Irvine (UCI). Bir ilgi bir hücreye gen Tanıtımı in vivo fonksiyonu nedenlerine açıklık için güçlü bir yöntemdir. Bu protokol Amaxa tarafından yapılan Nucleofector elektroporasyon cihazları kullanırken insan nöral kök / prekürsör hücrelerinin (hNSPCs) bir kültür transfecting verimli bir yöntem açıklanır.

Video: Transfecting Human Neural Stem Cells with the Amaxa Nucleofector

Counting Human Neural Stem Cells

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells in a given volume of a cell suspension is required for many routine tissue culture manipulations, such as plating cells for immunocytochemistry or for cell transfections. This protocol describes a straightforward and fast method for differentiating between live and dead cells and quantifying the cell concentration and total cell number using a hemacytometer. This procedure first requires detaching cells from a growth surface and resuspending them in media. Next, the cells are diluted in a solution of Trypan blue (ideally to a concentration that will give 20-50 cells per quadrant) and placed in the hemacytometer. Finally, averaging the counts of viable cells in several randomly selected quadrants, dividing the average by the volume of one 1 mm2 quadrant (0.1 &mu;l) and multiplying by the dilution factor gives the number of cells per l. Multiplying this cell concentration by the total volume in &mu;l gives the total cell number. This protocol describes counting human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), but can also be used for many other cell types.

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells is required for many tissue culture manipulations. This protocol describes how to differentiate between live and dead cells and quantify cells using a hemacytometer. Although it describes counting human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), it can be used for other cell types.

İnsan Nöral Kök Hücreler Sayma

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells in a given volume of a cell suspension is required for many routine tissue culture manipulations, such as ...

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Passaging Human Neural Stem Cells

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro provides a means to investigate their utility as cell transplants for therapeutic purposes as well as to explore many fundamental processes of human neural development and pathology.  This protocol presents a simple method of culturing and passaging hNSPCs in hopes of standardizing this technique and increasing reproducibility of human stem cell research.  The hNSPCs we use were isolated from cadaveric postnatal brain cortices by the National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource and grown as adherent cultures on flasks coated with fibronectin (Palmer et al., 2001; Schwartz et al., 2003).  We culture our hNSPCs in a DMEM:F12 serum-free media supplemented with EGF, FGF, and PDGF and passage them 1:2 approximately every seven days.  Using these conditions, the majority of the cells in the culture maintain a bipolar morphology and express markers of undifferentiated neural stem cells (such as nestin and sox2).

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro allows to investigate their utility as cell transplants for therapeutic purposes and to explore human neural development. This protocol presents a method of culturing and passaging hNSPCs in hopes of increasing reproducibility of human stem cell research.

İnsan Nöral Kök Hücreler Pasajlanması

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro provides a means to investigate their utility as cell transplants for ...

Immunocytochemistry: Human Neural Stem Cells

Immunocytochemistry is a very powerful and fairly straightforward method for determining the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of an antigen of interest, most commonly a protein, in cultured cells. This protocol presents an easy-to-follow series of steps that will enable researchers to conserve primary and secondary antibodies while getting high quality, reproducible qualitative and quantitative data out of their staining. There are two aspects of this protocol that help to conserve the volume of antibody necessary for staining. For one, the cells are grown on small, circular coverslips that are placed in wells of a tissue culture plate. After fixation, the cells on coverslips can be removed from the wells of the plate. For antibody staining, the coverslip with cells is inverted onto a small drop of antibody solution on parafilm and is covered with a second piece of parafilm to prevent drying. Using this method, only ~25 &mu;l of antibody solution is needed for each coverslip (or sample) to be stained. This protocol describes immunostaining of human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), but can be used for many other cell types.

Immunocytochemistry is a powerful method to determine the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of an antigen of interest in cultured cells. This protocol presents an easy-to-follow series of steps that will enable one to conserve antibodies and get the most out of one's staining.

İmmünositokimya: İnsan Sinir Kök Hücreler

Immunocytochemistry is a very powerful and fairly straightforward method for determining the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of ...

Labeling Stem Cells with Fluorescent Dyes for non-invasive Detection with Optical Imaging

Optical imaging (OI) is an easy, fast and inexpensive tool for in vivo monitoring of new stem cell based therapies. The technique is based on ex vivo labeling of stem cells with a fluorescent dye, subsequent intravenous injection of the labeled cells and visualization of their accumulation in specific target organs or pathologies. The presented technique demonstrates how we label human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) by simple incubation with the lipophilic fluorescent dye DiD (C67H103CIN2O3S) and how we label human embryonic stem cells (hESC) with the FDA approved fluorescent dye Indocyanine Green (ICG). The uptake mechanism is via adherence and diffusion of the lypophilic dye across the phospholipid cell membrane bilayer. The labeling efficiency is usually improved if the cells are incubated with the dye in serum-free media as opposed to incubation in serum-containing media. Furthermore, the addition of the transfection agent Protamine Sulfate significantly improves contrast agent uptake.

This video shows techniques for labeling of human embryonic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells with fluorescent dyes. This technique can be used for an in vivo tracking of transplanted stem cells with optical imaging and for histopathological correlations with fluorescence microscopy.

Optik Görüntüleme ile non-invaziv Algılama için Floresan Boyalar Kök Hücreler Etiketleme

Optical imaging (OI) is an easy, fast and inexpensive tool for in vivo monitoring of new stem cell based therapies. The technique is based on ex vivo ...

Mouse Epidermal Neural Crest Stem Cell (EPI-NCSC) Cultures

EPI-NCSC are remnants of the embryonic neural crest in an adult location, the bulge of hair follicles. They are multipotent stem cells that have the physiological property to generate a wide array of differentiated cell types, including neurons, nerve supporting cells, smooth muscle cells, bone/cartilage cells and melanocytes. EPI-NCSC are easily accessible in the hairy skin and can be isolated as a highly pure population of stem cells. This video provides a detailed protocol for preparing mouse EPI-NCSC cultures from whisker follicles. The whisker pad of an adult mouse is removed, and whisker follicles dissected. The follicles are then cut longitudinally and subsequently transversely above and below the bulge region. The bulge is removed from the collagen capsule and placed in a culture plate. EPI-NCSC start to emigrate from the bulge explants 3 to 4 days later.

Mouse Epidermal Neural Crest Stem Cell EPI-NCSC Cultures

Here we show our method to isolate mouse epidermal neural crest stem cells (EPI-NCSC). Technique involves micro-dissecting whisker follicles, isolating the bulge and placeing it into tissue culture. EPI-NCSC start to emigrate from bulge explants onto the substratum within 3 - 4 days.

Fare Epidermal Sinir Crest Kök Hücre (EPI-NCSC) Kültürler

EPI-NCSC are remnants of the embryonic neural crest in an adult location, the bulge of hair follicles. They are multipotent stem cells that have the ...

Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Reprogramming Human Fibroblasts with the Stemgent Human TF Lentivirus Set

In 2006, Yamanaka and colleagues first demonstrated that retrovirus-mediated delivery and expression of Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4 is capable of inducing the pluripotent state in mouse fibroblasts.1 The same group also reported the successful reprogramming of human somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells using human versions of the same transcription factors delivered by retroviral vectors.2 Additionally, James Thomson et al. reported that the lentivirus-mediated co-expression of another set of factors (Oct4, Sox2, Nanog and Lin28) was capable of reprogramming human somatic cells into iPS cells.3
iPS cells are similar to ES cells in morphology, proliferation and the ability to differentiate into all tissue types of the body. Human iPS cells have a distinct advantage over ES cells as they exhibit key properties of ES cells without the ethical dilemma of embryo destruction. The generation of patient-specific iPS cells circumvents an important roadblock to personalized regenerative medicine therapies by eliminating the potential for immune rejection of non-autologous transplanted cells.
Here we demonstrate the protocol for reprogramming human fibroblast cells using the Stemgent Human TF Lentivirus Set. We also show that cells reprogrammed with this set begin to show iPS morphology four days post-transduction. Using the Stemolecule Y27632, we selected for iPS cells and observed correct morphology after three sequential rounds of colony picking and passaging. We also demonstrate that after reprogramming cells displayed the pluripotency marker AP, surface markers TRA-1-81, TRA-1-60, SSEA-4, and SSEA-3, and nuclear markers Oct4, Sox2 and Nanog.

We demonstrate the protocol for the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from human somatic cells using lentivirus-mediated delivery of the human factors Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, and Lin28. Pluripotency was confirmed by morphology and the presence of embryonic stem (ES) cell-specific markers.

Stemgent İnsan TF lentivirüs İnsan Fibroblastlar yeniden programlanması Bağlı Pluripotent Kök Hücre Üretimi ayarla

In 2006, Yamanaka and colleagues first demonstrated that retrovirus-mediated delivery and expression of Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc and Klf4 is capable of inducing ...

Xenotransplantation of Human Stem Cells into the Chicken Embryo

The chicken embryo is a classical animal model for studying normal embryonic and fetal development and for xenotransplantation experiments to study the behavior of cells in a standardized in vivo environment. The main advantages of the chicken embryo include low cost, high accessibility, ease of surgical manipulation and lack of a fully developed immune system. Xenotransplantation into chicken embryos can provide valuable information about cell proliferation, differentiation and behavior, the responses of cells to signals in defined embryonic tissue niches, and tumorigenic potential. Transplanting cells into chicken embryos can also be a step towards transplantation experiments in other animal models. Recently the chicken embryo has been used to evaluate the neurogenic potential of human stem and progenitor cells following implantation into neural anlage1-6. In this video we document the entire procedure for transplanting human stem cells into the developing central nervous system of the chicken embryo. The procedure starts with incubation of fertilized eggs until embryos of the desired age have developed. The eggshell is then opened, and the embryo contrasted by injecting dye between the embryo and the yolk. Small lesions are made in the neural tube using microsurgery, creating a regenerative site for cell deposition that promotes subsequent integration into the host tissue. We demonstrate injections of human stem cells into such lesions made in the part of the neural tube that forms the hindbrain and the spinal cord, and into the lumen of the part of the neural tube that forms the brain. Systemic injections into extraembryonic veins and arteries are also demonstrated as an alternative way to deliver cells to vascularized tissues including the central nervous system. Finally we show how to remove the embryo from the egg after several days of further development and how to dissect the spinal cord free for subsequent physiological, histological or biochemical analyses.

In this paper we present a method for transplanting human stem cells into various regions of the central nervous system of the chicken embryo. This provides an in vivo model for assessing the proliferation and differentiation of various types of human stem cells in embryonic tissue environments.

Tavuk embriyo haline İnsan Kök Hücre Xenotransplantation

The chicken embryo is a classical animal model for studying normal embryonic and fetal development and for xenotransplantation experiments to study the ...

Lentiviral-mediated Knockdown During Ex Vivo Erythropoiesis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Erythropoiesis is a commonly used model system to study cell differentiation. During erythropoiesis, pluripotent adult human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) differentiate into oligopotent progenitors, committed precursors and mature red blood cells 1. This process is regulated for a large part at the level of gene expression, whereby specific transcription factors activate lineage-specific genes while concomitantly repressing genes that are specific to other cell types 2. Studies on transcription factors regulating erythropoiesis are often performed using human and murine cell lines that represent, to some extent, erythroid cells at given stages of differentiation 3-5. However transformed cell lines can only partially mimic erythroid cells and most importantly they do not allow one to comprehensibly study the dynamic changes that occur as cells progress through many stages towards their final erythroid fate. Therefore, a current challenge remains the development of a protocol to obtain relatively homogenous populations of primary HSCs and erythroid cells at various stages of differentiation in quantities that are sufficient to perform genomics and proteomics experiments.
Here we describe an ex vivo cell culture protocol to induce erythroid differentiation from human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells that have been isolated from either cord blood, bone marrow, or adult peripheral blood mobilized with G-CSF (leukapheresis). This culture system, initially developed by the Douay laboratory 6, uses cytokines and co-culture on mesenchymal cells to mimic the bone marrow microenvironment. Using this ex vivo differentiation protocol, we observe a strong amplification of erythroid progenitors, an induction of differentiation exclusively towards the erythroid lineage and a complete maturation to the stage of enucleated red blood cells. Thus, this system provides an opportunity to study the molecular mechanism of transcriptional regulation as hematopoietic stem cells progress along the erythroid lineage. 
Studying erythropoiesis at the transcriptional level also requires the ability to over-express or knockdown specific factors in primary erythroid cells. For this purpose, we use a lentivirus-mediated gene delivery system that allows for the efficient infection of both dividing and non-dividing cells 7. Here we show that we are able to efficiently knockdown the transcription factor TAL1 in primary human erythroid cells. In addition, GFP expression demonstrates an efficiency of lentiviral infection close to 90%. Thus, our protocol provides a highly useful system for characterization of the regulatory network of transcription factors that control erythropoiesis.

Lentiviral-mediated Knockdown During Ex Vivo Erythropoiesis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

An ex vivo protocol to generate mature human red blood cells from hematopoietic stem/progenitors is described. Additionally we describe an efficient lentiviral-delivery method to knockdown the transcription factor TAL1 in primary erythroid cells. The efficiency of lentivirus mediated gene delivery is demonstrated using GFP expressing viruses.

Lentiviral aracılı demonte sırasında Ex vivo İnsan Hematopoetik Kök Hücre Eritropoiesis

Erythropoiesis is a commonly used model system to study cell differentiation. During erythropoiesis, pluripotent adult human hematopoietic stem cells ...

Transfecting and Nucleofecting Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Genetic modification is continuing to be an essential tool in studying stem cell biology and in setting forth potential clinical applications of human embryonic stem cells (HESCs)1. While improvements in several gene delivery methods have been described2-9, transfection remains a capricious process for HESCs, and has not yet been reported in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In this video, we demonstrate how our lab routinely transfects and nucleofects human iPSCs using plasmid with an enhanced green fluorescence protein (eGFP) reporter. Human iPSCs are adapted and maintained as feeder-free cultures to eliminate the possibility of feeder cell transfection and to allow efficient selection of stable transgenic iPSC clones following transfection. For nucleofection, human iPSCs are pre-treated with ROCK inhibitor11, trypsinized into small clumps of cells, nucleofected and replated on feeders in feeder cell-conditioned medium to enhance cell recovery. Transgene-expressing human iPSCs can be obtained after 6 hours. Antibiotic selection is applied after 24 hours and stable transgenic lines appear within 1 week. Our protocol is robust and reproducible for human iPSC lines without altering pluripotency of these cells.

Despite recent advancements in genetic modification, transfection of human embryonic stem cells (HESCs) remains a capricious process. To our knowledge, systematic and efficient methods to transfect human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have not been reported. Here, we describe robust protocols to efficiently transfect and nucleofect human iPSCs.

İnsan İsteyerek Pluripotent Kök Hücreler transfekte ve Nucleofecting

Genetic modification is continuing to be an essential tool in studying stem cell biology and in setting forth potential clinical applications of human ...

Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Using Retroviral Vector with GFP

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent and an invaluable cellular sources for in vitro disease modeling and regenerative medicine1. It has been previously shown that human somatic cells can be reprogrammed to pluripotency by ectopic expression of four transcription factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and Myc) and become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)2-4 . Like hESCs, human iPSCs are pluripotent and a potential source for autologous cells. Here we describe the protocol to reprogram human fibroblast cells with the four reprogramming factors cloned into GFP-containing retroviral backbone4. Using the following protocol, we generate human iPSCs in 3-4 weeks under human ESC culture condition. Human iPSC colonies closely resemble hESCs in morphology and display the loss of GFP fluorescence as a result of retroviral transgene silencing. iPSC colonies isolated mechanically under a fluorescence microscope behave in a similar fashion as hESCs. In these cells, we detect the expression of multiple pluripotency genes and surface markers.

Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells iPSCs Using Retroviral Vector with GFP

A method to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) via retrovirus-mediated ectopic expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and MYC is described. A practical way to identify human iPSC colonies based on GFP expression is also discussed.

GFP Retroviral Vector kullanarak İsteyerek Pluripotent Kök Hücrelerinin (iPSCs) içine İnsan somatik hücreleri yeniden programlama

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent and an invaluable cellular sources for in vitro disease modeling and regenerative medicine1. It has ...