Abstract:
提供一种诱导人脊髓运动神经前体细胞分化为脊髓运动神经元的方法,包括以下步骤:1)脊髓运动神经前体细胞的培养:将脊髓运动神经前体细胞消化成单细胞,接种至包被好的培养皿中进行贴壁培养,培养液为脊髓运动神经前体细胞培养基,37℃,5% CO 2 饱和湿度培养箱培养;2)脊髓运动神经元的诱导:在基础完全培养基中培养步骤1)获得的脊髓运动神经前体细胞,在不同时间添加不同的时空特异性信号通路调控小分子和/或生长因子诱导分化,37℃,5% CO 2 饱和湿度培养箱培养3-30天,每两天换液一次。
Abstract:
The present invention provides the new use of composition comprising at least one inhibitor of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) for increasing migration and homing of haematopoetic progenitor cells in stem cell transplanted recipients, wherein said haematopoetic stem and/or progenitor cells had been treated in vitro with an engraftment enhancing compound, specifically with a prostacyclin analogue and a cAMP enhancer before transplantation.
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This document provides methods and materials related to making and using differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells. For example, methods and materials for making differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells (e.g., insulin-producing cells) that do not form cancer cells within a mammal (e.g., a human), cells that underwent guided differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells, compositions containing cells that underwent guided differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells, and methods for using cells that underwent guided differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells (e.g., methods for using such cells to treat diabetes or to repair cardiovascular tissue) are provided.
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Methods for the efficient isolation and use of pluripotent adipose-derived stem cells (PASCs) are provided. In certain embodiments the methods involve providing an adipose tissue sample from which the stromal vascular fraction is co-cultured with the adipocyte fraction. PASCs can be isolated with a high degree of purification without requiring an additional cell enrichment process (e.g. cell sorting). PASCs and their conditioned media can be used for tissue regeneration within hours of harvesting the adipose tissue, and without requiring cell expansion. PASCs can grow as floating individual cells, as clusters of cells, or attached to surface(s) of the culture vessel. PASCs do not produce teratomas in vivo, nor do they induce immunorejection upon transplantation, and they achieve a high efficiency in grafting. The cells and compositions can be used for cell therapy and to screen new drugs.
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Provided herein are methods and assays for isolating and culturing seborrheic keratosis cells ex vivo. Also provided herein are screening assays using cultured seborrheic keratosis cells and methods for treating seborrheic keratosis in a subject.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a polypeptide comprising the N-terminal fragment of a cystatin, and/or a cystatin expression inducer for use for the treatment of sterility and/or infertility, and a method of diagnosing and/or predicting sterility and/or infertility of a subject and/or of a couple of subjects, which method comprises measuring the level of at least one cystatin in a biological sample of a male subject and/or measuring the level of at least one cystatin in a biological sample of a female subject, and optionally measuring further the level of at least one cathepsin in a biological sample of said male of female subject.
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The invention provides a peripheral blood cell (PBC) comprising a high temperature requirement serine peptidase 1 (HTRA1)/ htra1 activator, a host cell comprising a cytokine-induced Src homology 2 protein (CIS) /cish inhibitor and a HTRA1/ htra1 activator, a host cell comprising an anti-cish shMIR comprising SEQ ID NO: 3 or 4, and related populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating or preventing cancer or a chronic infectious disease in a mammal, and methods of increasing T cell activity in a mammal. The invention also provides a host cell comprising a HTRA1/ htra1 inhibitor and a CIS /cish activator, a PBC comprising a HTRA1/ htra1 inhibitor, and related populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating or preventing an auto- and/or allo-immune disease in a mammal, and methods of suppressing T cell activity in a mammal.
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This document is related to a method for determining the cardio generative potential of mammalian cells which comprises the assessment of a CARdiac generation Potential Index (CARPI) as a function of the quantification of the expression of genes of said cells. It also relates to a method for quantitatively assessing the modification of this cardio-generative potential and the cardiogenic potential of a treatment aiming at cellular differentiation.
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Disclosed herein are cell cultures and enriched cell populations of endocrine precursor cells, immature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells and mature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells. Also disclosed herein are methods of producing such cell cultures and cell populations.
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We disclose a method comprising: (a) providing an embryonic stem (ES) cell; and (b) establishing a progenitor cell line from the embryonic stem cell; in which the progenitor cell line is selected based on its ability to self-renew. Preferably, the method selects against somatic cells based on their inability to self-renew. Preferably, the progenitor cell line is derived or established in the absence of co-culture, preferably in the absence of feeder cells, which preferably selects against embryonic stem cells. Optionally, the method comprises (d) deriving a differentiated cell from the progenitor cell line.