... genes involved in endoderm differentiationof hESCs Table 5.1 Available information on knock-out phenotypes in the mouse vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Embryonic origin of human embryonicstemcells ... clinical applications and ensuring acceptance of the transplant and preventing rejection by the recipient’s immune system remain Harnessing and understanding the differentiationpotentialof ... importance of Activin/ Nodal signaling in the maintenance of hESC pluripotency has been re-iterated in recent studies detailing the derivation and maintenance of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells...
... could maintain a small accessible region in the globin locus during the differentiationof hematopoietic stemcells to erythroid cells Transcription of HS3 could be important in maintaining this ... nature and extent of covalent histone modifications and association of transcription complexes at the murine b-globin locus during the in vitro differentiationof murine embryonicstemcells We ... erythroid differentiationof murine embryonicstemcells PCR analysis of DNase I treated and reverse-transcribed total RNA extracted from differentiating embryonicstemcells at the indicated time points...
... expression inembryonicstemcells suggest they are involved in maintaining "stemness" Identifying mRNAs that are directly targeted by a specific miRNA is a major obstacle in understanding the miRNA ... greater in hES cells than in EB cellsand it was not even detected in adult cells The expression of miR-520b was 26-fold greater in hES cells then in EB cells (P < 0.05) and it was detected only in ... expression profiles of miRNAs and transcripts using three hES cell lines, embryonic bodies (EB) produced from one of the cell lines and five types of terminally differentiated adult cells The integration...
... humor and inspiration, and providing invaluable thoughts on science and life, and all things in between Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Results Culturing ofMouseEmbryonicStemCells (mESC) ... GFAP and Vimentin expressions in SDIA cultures List of Illustrations Illustration – Invitrogen BlockIT tetracycline inducible short, hairpin RNA system Introduction Mouseembryonicstemcells ... posttransfection and five days ofselection were sufficient to achieve complete elimination of GFP-C2 negative control cellsMouseembryonicstemcells transfected with pcDNA6/TR and surviving Blasticidin selection...
... We determined the H2O2-induced ROS generation inmouse -5 embryonicstemcells using DCF-DA (10 M), a fluorescent probe of intracellular H2O2 Production of ROS was -3 detected in the cells exposed ... was loaded into a 96-well plate and examined using a luminometer (Victor3; PerkinElmer, Finland) and a fluorescent plate reader with excitation and emission wavelengths of 485 nm and 535 nm, ... purpose of this study was to determine the effect of DHT on mouse ES cells under conditions of H2O2-induced oxidative stress Materials and Methods Materials The mouse ES cells were obtained from...
... expression of insulin and proinsulin in stage IV cells Quantification of IHC staining shows FN and LAM increases the percentage of (B) proinsulin, and (C) insulin positive cells (mean ± S.D.; ** indicates ... IPC differentiation Immunohistochemistry (IHC) in stage IV cells further revealed adding ECM increased the percentage of proinsulin and insulin expressing cells with the maximum effect seen incells ... insulin and Glut2 gene expressions, proinsulin and insulin protein levels, accumulation of cytoplasmic granules including a, b, and δ granules, and insulin release in response to elevated glucose concentration...
... http://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/18/1/46 Page of 10 Figure Confocal microscopy of a single colony ofmouseembryonicstemcells A: top view of a single slice of scanning showing most eGFP signals are not overlapping with mitochondria ... conditions inmouseembryonicstemcells Methods Mouseembryonicstem cell culture The mouseembryonicstem (MES) cells (CCE-24) were routinely grown on 0.1% gelatin-coated dishes in Dubecco’s Modified ... writing and final approval of the manuscript AK was involved in manuscript writing and data analysis SL was involved in the conception and design, administrative support, data analysis and interpretation,...
... importance of epigenetic patterns in defining cell identity, understanding and utilizing epigenomic mapping will become a necessity in both basic and translational stem cell research In this review, ... methylcytosine cells, chromatin of pluripotent cells appears to have unique features, such as the increased mobility of many structural chromatin proteins, including histones and heterochromatin protein ... methylomes Studies of stringently defined models ofmouse reprogramming have shown that cell-type -of- originspecific differences in gene expression anddifferentiationpotential exist in early passage...
... retrotransposons (LINE and SINE B1) and rDNA repeats in wild-type OS25 ES cellsandin mutant ES cells lacking Eed, Dnmt 1, Dnmt 3a/3b, G9a or Dicer The mean values and standard error of at least two independent ... maintained Here, a genetic approach was used to analyze the impact of different chromatin modifiers on the replication timing profile ofmouse ES cells We show that, while early replication in ... and mutant ES cells analyzed The mean values and standard error of at least two independent experiments are shown (b,c) Summary of replication timing of candidate genes (b) and loci surrounding...
... Genome-wide Mapping of Oct4-DNA Interactions inMouseEmbryonicStemCells 4.1 Introduction 74 4.2 Results 76 4.2.1 Optimisation of large-scale ChIP 76 4.2.2 Global mapping of Oct4 binding sites in mESCs ... Genome-wide Identification of Sox2-DNA Interactions inMouseEmbryonicStemCells 5.1 Introduction 95 5.2 Results 96 5.2.1 Optimisation of ChIP and global mapping of Sox2 binding sites in mESCs 96 5.2.2 ... Function of genes associated with the binding of Oct4, Sox2, Stat3 and Smad1 inmouseembryonicstemcells as annotated in NCBI xiii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 A schematic view ofmouse pre-implantation...
... layer of mitomycin C-inactivated murine embryonic fibroblast feeder (MEF) cells [7, 8] These were harvested from CF1 inbred mouse strain purchased from Charles River Laboratories Inc (Wilmington, ... alterations 128 trained in procedures and protocols designed to minimize low temperature exposure This would include quick handling outside the incubator, as well as the useof pre-warmed and pre-equilibrated ... cannot be said of human embryos, which are much less robust and hardy compared to mouse embryos Hence laboratories involved in handling human embryos in clinical assisted reproduction often have...
... osteogenic differentiationof MSCs [8,11,12] and promote fracture healing in animal models [13-15] Recombinant human BMP-2 and BMP-7 are used clinically in spinal fusion and the healing of tibial ... entiation of human mesenchymal transcripts Expression of BMP-2 and chordinstem cells during osteogenic differentiationof human mesenchymal stemcells (a) Temporal progression of bone morphogenetic ... basis of the expression of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and incorporation of calcium in the extracellular matrix The deposition of a mineralized matrix was further examined by staining with...
... Correspondingly, invivo implantation of BMP-4 into abdominal muscles of rats led to ectopic cartilage and bone formation when delivered as recombinant protein [38] or via genetically modified cells ... defects in humans [5,6] However, to date, the delivery of MSCs into cartilaginous lesions has neither clinically nor experimentally resulted in sustained regeneration of hyaline cartilage invivo ... primary MSCs and to investigate whether levels and extent of hypertrophy in vitro is influenced by the choice of transgene Materials and methods Construction and preparation of recombinant adenoviral...
... propagated indefinitely in vitro in the presence of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) [6,7] When transplanted into a mouse blastocyst, mESCs integrate into the embryo and contribute to all cell lineages, ... Maintenance of pluripotential embryonicstemcells by stem cell selection Reprod Fertil Dev 1998, 10:527-533 53 Wdziekonski B, Villageois P, Dani C: Differentiationofmouseembryonicstemcells ... steps in mESCs, we used a combination of computational and experimental approaches Analysis of the expression of TFs associated with mESC adipogenesis during mouse embryogenesis andinmouse adipose...
... osteoconductive and osteoinductive bone graft material by incorporation of Dex an osteoinductive drug into polymeric nanofibers during electrospinning process 1) Incorporation of Type I Col into nanofibrous ... labeling includes tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate (TRITC)-conjugated phalloidin (staining red F-actin) and DAPI (staining blue nuclei) The staining showed the formation of actin cytoskeleton in ... mesenchymal stemcells (MSCs) have been shown to be an interesting source, because they can be isolated, expanded ex vivo, and used in an autologous fashion which can avoid the problem of finding a...
... Zfp143 is one of the genes in the list To check its expression pattern in both mouseand human ES cellsand during differentiation, mouse E14 cellsand human H1 cells were treated with retinoic acid ... as mouse ES cells unless stimulated by LIF and BMP4 or force expression of E-cadherin, suggesting that these cells are in a latent state of pluripotency Figure 1.1 Origin ofstemcells during ... embryogenesis Indeed, a major interest of ES cells to the scientific community is their utility as cellular vehicles for engineering of the mouse genome Mouse ES cells can be injected into the blastocysts...
... 1997;Defining the topology of integrin alpha5beta1-fibronectin interactions using inhibitory anti-alpha5 and anti-beta1 monoclonal antibodies Evidence that the synergy sequence of fibronectin is ... 2007 ;In vitro enhancement of collagen matrix formation and crosslinking for applications in tissue engineering: a preliminary study Tissue Eng (2):385391 37 Qian L, Saltzman WM 2004;Improving ... colony-forming cell and the haemopoietic stem cell Blood Cells (12):7-25 32 Moore KA, Lemischka IR 2006 ;Stem cellsand their niches Science (5769):1880-1885 33 Lemischka IR, Moore KA 2003 ;Stem cells: interactive...
... benefits ofgenetic manipulation include controlling differentiationof ES cells, screening and acquiring pure populations of specific types of ES cell-derived cells, altering antigenicity ofcells ... recombination in human ES cells are low Electroporation, a method of choice for introducing foreign DNA intomouse ES cells, can be adapted for the gene transfection of human ES cells (Zwaka and ... embryonicstemcells for the purpose ofgenetic modification, thus facilitating the realization of the great potentialof these cellsin basic researches and clinical applications VIII LIST OF PUBLICATIONS...
... brain (neuronal stem cells) , skin (epidermal stem cells) , eye (retinal stem cells) and gut (intestinal crypt stem cells) (Spradling et al 2001) However, 15 not all organs and tissues may contain ... counterpart of murine EC cells for studying human development anddifferentiationin vitro (Andrews 2002) hEC cell lines are capable of multi-lineage differentiationin vitro but being of tumor origin ... classes of pluripotent stemcellsin humans, other primates and mice These are embryonicstem cells, embryonic germ cells, embryonic carcinoma cellsand recently the discovery of a fourth class of...
... hFOB H & E staining (d) hFOB von Kossa staining Scaffold (e) hFOB H & E staining Figure At 2-week time point: H&E staining and von Kossa staining of sections showing scaffold andcells (e) hFOB ... comparing the invivo osteogenic differentiationpotentialof human embryonicstemcells (hESC) and human somatic osteoblast cell line Method HESCs were propagated on mouseembryonic feeder cells ... be eliminated very soon Other challenges in the useof ESC include controlling lineage specific differentiationand elimination of residual stemcells Thus to obtain a purified population of osteoblasts...