摘要:
The method for producing a cell aggregate including glial progenitor cells according to the present invention comprises: (1) a step of subjecting pluripotent stem cells to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium containing one or more SMAD signaling inhibitors and one or more Wnt signaling activators in the absence of feeder cells for 5 days to 10 days, to form a cell aggregate; (2) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (1) to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium containing retinoic acid; (3) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (2) to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium or neuron-and-glia-proliferating culture medium containing retinoic acid and one or more SHH signaling activators; and (4) a step of subjecting the cell aggregate obtained in (3) to suspension culture in a neuron-and-glia-proliferating culture medium containing no retinoic acid and one or more SHH signaling activators.
摘要:
A production method for parvalbumin-positive nerve cells includes: an expression induction step of inducing expression of Ascl1 gene, Dlx2 gene, and MEF2C gene in a cell, and a differentiation step of culturing the cell after the expression induction to differentiate the cells into parvalbumin-positive nerve cell; a cell into which Ascl1 gene, Dlx2 gene, and MEF2C gene are introduced in an expressible manner; and a differentiation inducer for inducing differentiation of a cell into a parvalbumin-positive nerve cell, including Ascl1 gene, Dlx2 gene, and MEF2C gene, or gene products thereof, as an active ingredient.
摘要:
Sample preparation system and method which enable electron microscope observation of a sample slice with simple structure and process are provided. The sample preparation system includes at least one of a plasma treatment apparatus and a sputtering apparatus, as well as a slice collecting apparatus. The plasma treatment apparatus is configured to feed a resin tape in a plasma irradiation area to irradiate the resin tape with plasma, thereby continuously hydrophilizing the resin tape. The sputtering apparatus is configured to feed the resin tape in a sputtering area to continuously perform sputtering on the resin tape, thereby imparting conductivity to the resin tape. The slice collecting apparatus is configured to serially collect slices cut out from a sample onto the resin tape having been subjected to plasma treatment or sputtering.
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).
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—CH2—OH, and X is ═O, (H, H) or (H, OH).
摘要:
To generate an animal model exhibiting symptoms similar to those of human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and/or human frontotemporal lobar degeneration. An animal model exhibiting symptoms similar to those of human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and/or human frontotemporal lobar degeneration can be produced by means of generating a mutation in a vertebrate so that expression of a mutant protein with a substitution of tyrosine for alanine at a position corresponding to position 382 of SEQ ID NO. 1 or a mutant protein with a substitution of cysteine for glycine at a position corresponding to position 348 of SEQ ID NO. 1 is regulated by an endogenous TDP-43 gene promoter in at least one allele of an endogenous TDP-43 gene of the vertebrate.
摘要翻译:产生表现出类似于人肌萎缩性侧索硬化和/或人额颞叶变性的症状的动物模型。 可以通过在脊椎动物中产生突变来产生表现出与人肌萎缩性侧索硬化和/或人额颞叶变性相似的症状的动物模型,使得在对应位置处表达具有丙氨酸酪氨酸酪氨酸的突变蛋白 到SEQ ID NO的位置382。 1或在对应于SEQ ID NO的位置348的位置具有半胱氨酸取代甘氨酸的突变蛋白。 1在脊椎动物的内源性TDP-43基因的至少一个等位基因中由内源性TDP-43基因启动子调节。
摘要:
The present invention provides an agent for promoting neuronal differentiation of neural stem cells, which contains a p38 inhibitor. In addition, the present invention provides a method of promoting neuronal differentiation of neural stem cells, which includes cultivating neural stem cells in the presence of a p38 inhibitor. Neural stem cells are gliogenic or neurogenic. The p38 inhibitor is a nucleic acid which hybridizes to DNA or mRNA encoding p38 under physiological conditions, thereby inhibiting the transcription and/or translation thereof, an expression vector of the nucleic acid, a low molecular p38 inhibitor and the like.
摘要:
A cell preparation for treating brain tumors used in combination with a prodrug that is converted to 5-fluorouracil by cytosine deaminase, wherein the cell preparation comprises neural stem cells derived from pluripotent stem cells having a cytosine deaminase gene and a uracil phosphoribosyltransferase gene is provided to establish new means for treating brain tumors.
摘要:
A method of producing induced pluripotent stem cells including a step for introducing an initialization factor into somatic cells of a mammal, and culturing in a neural stem cell culture medium to obtain induced neural stem cell-like cells, and a step for cultivating said induced neural stem cell-like cells in a growth medium to obtain induced pluripotent stem cells, wherein the initialization factor contains an OCT family, a SOX family, a KLF family, a MYC family, a LIN28 family and a P53 function inhibitor.
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.