细胞技术

This work was initiated in an effort to evaluate the potential therapeutic contribution of the infusion of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) for the correction of liver injuries. We subjected NOD–SCID mice to a 10.5-Gy abdominal irradiation and we tested the biological and histological markers ...

Cancer Stem cells (CSCs) are the source of many solid tumor types including hepatocellular carcinoma. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs and have been showed to be associated with hepatic CSCs. Here, we described methods to screen hepatic CSC-related miRNAs, and to validate and exa ...

The phenotype of hepatocytes has been thought to be fixed once they are terminally differentiated. However, we and other investigators have demonstrated that mature hepatocytes can transform into bile duct/ductule cells in various experimental conditions in vitro. Since the normal ...

A method for the generation of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was established. This method employs adenovirus carrying the ecotropic retrovirus receptor mCAT1 and Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV)-based retroviral vectors carrying the four transcription facto ...

We have found a novel type of pluripotent stem cells, Multilineage-differentiating stress enduring (Muse) cells that can be isolated from mesenchymal cell populations. Muse cells are characterized by stress tolerance, expression of pluripotency markers, self-renewal, and the ab ...

Clones of hepatocyte-like cells were reproducibly generated from human mesenchymal stem cells immortalized with a combined transduction of both Bmi-1 and TERT genes. These hepatocyte-like cells contained selective markers and several functional properties of hepatocytes, ...

There is a great interest in the development of functional hepatocytes in vitro from different types of stem cells. Multipotential mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) compose a great source for stem cell based therapy, especially, because they can be obtain from patients own tissues, sidesteppi ...

S-Adenosylmethionine, abbreviated as SAM, SAMe or AdoMet, is the principal methyl group donor in the mammalian cell and the first step metabolite of the methionine cycle, being synthesized by MAT (methionine adenosyltransferase) from methionine and ATP. About 60 years after its identi ...

“Tet-On” system requires two DNA constructs: the first one is a transcription regulatory unit, rtTA and the second construct is the responsive element Escherichia coli sequences (tetO) linked to Pcmv driven target gene. In the absence of inducing agent doxycycline (Dox), a tetracycline der ...

Establishment of protocols for the differentiation of hepatic cells from human embryonic stem (ES) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells could contribute to regenerative cell therapies or drug discovery and development. However, the differentiation efficiency of endoderm ...

Oval cells and small hepatocytes (SHs) are well known as hepatic stem/progenitor cells. However, the relationship between the oval cells and SHs in liver regeneration is not well understood. To resolve this issue, we established a technique to selectively separate oval cells and SHs. In the inj ...

During development, liver precursors constitute a valuable source of pluripotent stem cells that present the ability to differentiate into both a hepatic and biliary lineage. In the present chapter, we report an experimental procedure developed by our group to isolate mouse fetal hepa ...

Hepatoblasts are considered to be liver stem/progenitor cells in the fetus because they propagate and differentiate into two types of liver epithelial cells, hepatocytes and cholangiocytes. In adults, oval cells that emerge in severely injured liver are considered facultative hep ...

Liver transplantation offers a definitive cure for many liver and metabolic diseases. However, the complex invasive procedure and paucity of donor liver graft organs limit its clinical applicability. Liver stem cells provide a potentially limitless source of cells that would be usef ...

To investigate cell–cell interactions during mammalian liver development, it is essential to separate hepatoblasts (fetal liver progenitor cells) from nonparenchymal cells, including stellate cells, endothelial cells, and hemopoietic cells. Various factors, which may be p ...

Second-generation sequencers such as the Illumina GAIIx make possible the study of all transcribed loci in a genome across an almost endless dynamic range. Although typical protocols call for starting from at least 1 μg of total RNA, this is not possible when studying small tissues or rare cell typ ...

Dynamic changes in DNA methylation at the gene-specific and genome-wide level occur during mammalian germ-cell development. However, the details of how the methylation profiles change remain largely unknown. Bisulfite sequencing analysis is a powerful technique to determine the ...

Genetic lineage tracing (or fate mapping) techniques are designed to permanently label progenitor cells of target tissues, thereby allowing delineation of the progenies of labeled cells during organogenesis. This technology has been widely used in the study of cell migration and lin ...

The survival, proliferation, and differentiation of primordial germ cells in the mammalian embryo is regulated by a complex cocktail of growth factors and interactions with surrounding somatic cells, which together form a microenvironment known as the germ cell niche. Extensive ins ...

Oocyte maturation is a critical component of in vitro embryo production. If not carried out in a precise manner under optimal conditions, subsequent fertilization and embryo development will be compromised. Here, we describe collection and in vitro maturation procedures in swine that m ...