ARTIFICIAL AXON BUNDLE
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230390459A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US18034645

    申请日:2021-10-28

    IPC分类号: A61L27/38

    摘要: The present invention relates to an axon bundle obtained by a method of culturing a nerve cell aggregation having one spheroid and an axon bundle extending from the spheroid



    wherein the nerve cell aggregation consisting of a plurality of neurons having a cell body and an axon obtained by a method comprising the following step:
    supplying a culture medium to one first chamber, one second chamber and one channel having the length of at least 1 mm, the width of 100 to 150 μm and the height of 100 to 200 μm, which connecting said first chamber and second chamber, wherein said first chamber, second chamber, and channel are contained in one of the modules disposed in a culture plate,
    seeding the first chamber with a nerve cell derived from a stem cell or a spheroid of primary cultured nerve cells; and
    culturing said nerve cell, thereby growing an axon bundle from said spheroid and extending them into said channel,
    wherein the length of the axon bundle obtained is 1 mm or more, and the diameter of the axon bundles is 50 μm or more.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING OLIGODENDROCYTE-LIKE CELLS

    公开(公告)号:US20230203439A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US18116415

    申请日:2023-03-02

    IPC分类号: C12N5/079 C12N15/86

    摘要: A method is provided for producing oligodendrocyte-like cells, including (A) increasing abundances of oligodendrocyte transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) mutant and SRY-box transcription factor 10 (SOX10) in human pluripotent stein cells and (B) culturing the human pluripotent stem cells in which the abundances of the OLIG2 mutant and the SOX10 are increased and consequently differentiating the human pluripotent stem cells into oligodendrocyte-like cells, in which the OLIG2 mutant lacks a serine residue of wild-type OLIG2 at position 147, or the serine residue of the wild-type OLIG2 at position 147 is substituted with an amino acid other than serine.

    NEURITE OUTGROWTH PROMOTION KIT AND USE THEREFOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240252546A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18561077

    申请日:2022-05-27

    申请人: KEIO UNIVERSITY

    摘要: A neurite outgrowth promotion kit containing a γ-secretase inhibitor or a GADD45G expression vector, in which the neurite outgrowth promotion kit is used for significantly promoting neurite outgrowth of nerve cells as compared with a control, by acting on a neurosphere to induce differentiation of the neurosphere into nerve cells; a method for producing a neurosphere for treatment of spinal cord injury, which includes a step of using the above-described neurite outgrowth promotion kit on a neurosphere derived from a pluripotent stem cell; a neurosphere for treatment of spinal cord injury; and a method for selecting a neurosphere for treatment of spinal cord injury and a method for screening a neurite outgrowth-promoting agent.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING NAÏVE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS

    公开(公告)号:US20200325453A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16917464

    申请日:2020-06-30

    IPC分类号: C12N5/074 C12N5/10 C12N15/09

    摘要: To produce and/or maintain naïve pluripotent stem cells capable of highly expressing genes important for maintaining an undifferentiated state, which could not be achieved by known methods for producing pluripotent stem cells. The present invention can produce naïve pluripotent stem cells capable of maintaining an undifferentiated state by introducing and allowing transient expression of six genes (Oct3/4, Klf4, c-Myc, Sox2, Nanog, and Klf2) among the so-called initializing factors, and further performing culturing in a medium containing LIF, an MEK inhibitor, a GSK3 inhibitor, a cAMP production promoter, a TGF-β inhibitor and a PKC inhibitor. Thus, the problem of the present invention can be solved.

    THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

    公开(公告)号:US20170340586A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-30

    申请号:US15544419

    申请日:2016-01-13

    申请人: Keio University

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to provide novel apoptosis inhibitors and therapeutic agents for inner ear hearing impairment. As a pharmaceutical agent for this purpose, biguanide compounds represented by the following structural formula (I) or a rapamycin derivative represented by the following structural formula (II) as an active ingredient is provided: wherein R1 to R7 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a C1-6 alkyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, a C6-10 aryl group, a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl group, or a 5- or 6-membered non-aromatic heterocyclic group, each of which may have a substituent selected from a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-6 alkoxy group, a C1-6 alkoxy carbonyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, a C2-6 alkenyl group, a C2-6 alkynyl group, and a phenyl group; wherein R1 is a C1-6 alkyl or a C3-6 alkynyl, R2 is H, —CH2-OH or —CH2—CH2OH, and X is ═O, (H, H) or (H, OH).

    BRAIN ORGANOID AND USE THEREOF
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220380725A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17773784

    申请日:2020-11-05

    IPC分类号: C12N5/079 G01N33/50

    摘要: According to a production method for a brain organoid, comprising a step 1 of carrying out suspension culture of human pluripotent stem cells having a mutation in at least one or more base sequences in an exon selected from the group consisting of an exon 9, an exon 10, an exon 11, an exon 12, and an exon 13 of a microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) gene, and having a mutation in at least one or more base sequences in an intron 10 of the MAPT gene, it is possible to produce a brain organoid having a phosphorylated 3-repeat tau protein and a phosphorylated 4-repeat tau protein.