The Efficiency of Direct Maturation: the Comparison of Two hiPSC Differentiation Approaches into Motor Neurons by Catherine Schaefers, Simone Rothmiller, Horst Thiermann, Theo Rein, Annette Schmidt

“…Motor neurons (MNs) derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) hold great potential for the treatment of various motor neurodegenerative diseases as transplantations with a low-risk of rejection are made possible. …”
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Dual Inhibition of Activin/Nodal/TGF-β and BMP Signaling Pathways by SB431542 and Dorsomorphin Induces Neuronal Differentiation of Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells by Vedavathi Madhu, Abhijit S. Dighe, Quanjun Cui, D. Nicole Deal

“…We therefore sought to determine if a simple, one-step, and cost effective method, previously reported to induce neuronal differentiation of embryonic stem cells and induced-pluripotent stem cells, can be applied to adult stem cells. …”
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Drug repurposing screen for the rare disease ataxia-telangiectasia by Namrata Jayanth, Gurvan Mahé, Matthew Campbell, Mike Lipkin, Shushant Jain, Rhea van de Bospoort, Jennifer Thornton, Brad Margus, David F. Fischer

“…The cause of neurodegeneration due to mutations in ATM is still an area of investigation, and currently there is no known treatment to slow down or stop the progression of the neurological problems.In this collaboration of the A-T Children's Project (ATCP) with Charles River Discovery, we successfully developed a high-throughput assay using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from A-T donors to measure DNA damage response (DDR). …”
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Ropinirole and Pramipexole Promote Structural Plasticity in Human iPSC-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons via BDNF and mTOR Signaling by Ginetta Collo, Laura Cavalleri, Federica Bono, Cristina Mora, Stefania Fedele, Roberto William Invernizzi, Massimo Gennarelli, Giovanna Piovani, Tilo Kunath, Mark J. Millan, Emilio Merlo Pich, PierFranco Spano

“…Since D3R agonists are highly expressed on DA neurons in humans, we studied the effect of ropinirole and pramipexole on structural plasticity using a translational model of human-inducible pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Two hiPSC clones from healthy donors were differentiated into midbrain DA neurons. …”
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Oncogenic PIK3CA corrupts growth factor signaling specificity by Ralitsa R Madsen, Alix Le Marois, Oliwia N Mruk, Margaritis Voliotis, Shaozhen Yin, Jahangir Sufi, Xiao Qin, Salome J Zhao, Julia Gorczynska, Daniele Morelli, Lindsay Davidson, Erik Sahai, Viktor I Korolchuk, Christopher J Tape, Bart Vanhaesebroeck

“…Dose-dependent expression of PIK3CA H1047R in human cervical cancer and induced pluripotent stem cells corrupted the fidelity of growth factor-induced information transfer, with preferential amplification of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling responses compared to insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and insulin receptor signaling. …”
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Generation of iPSCs by Nonintegrative RNA-Based Reprogramming Techniques: Benefits of Self-Replicating RNA versus Synthetic mRNA by Heidrun Steinle, Marbod Weber, Andreas Behring, Ulrike Mau-Holzmann, Christian Schlensak, Hans Peter Wendel, Meltem Avci-Adali

“…The reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is gaining in importance in the fields of regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and disease modeling. …”
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Mutation-Specific Phenotypes in hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes Carrying Either Myosin-Binding Protein C Or α-Tropomyosin Mutation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Marisa Ojala, Chandra Prajapati, Risto-Pekka Pölönen, Kristiina Rajala, Mari Pekkanen-Mattila, Jyrki Rasku, Kim Larsson, Katriina Aalto-Setälä

“…We studied the properties of HCM cardiomyocytes (CMs) derived from patient-specific human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) carrying either MYBPC3-Gln1061X or TPM1-Asp175Asn mutation. …”
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Stem Cell Therapy for Diseases of Livestock Animals: An In-Depth Review by Raghavendra B. Narasimha, Singireddy Shreya, Vijay Anand Jayabal, Vikas Yadav, Prasana Kumar Rath, Bidyut Prava Mishra, Sudhakar Kancharla, Prachetha Kolli, Gowtham Mandadapu, Sudarshan Kumar, Ashok Kumar Mohanty, Manoj Kumar Jena

“…Many diseases in livestock species such as mastitis, laminitis, neuromuscular disorders, autoimmune diseases, and some debilitating diseases are not covered completely by the existing drugs and treatment can be improved by using different types of stem cells like embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells. This review mainly focuses on the use of stem cells for disease treatment in livestock animals. …”
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Patient-derived iPSCs link elevated mitochondrial respiratory complex I function to osteosarcoma in Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. by Brittany E Jewell, An Xu, Dandan Zhu, Mo-Fan Huang, Linchao Lu, Mo Liu, Erica L Underwood, Jun Hyoung Park, Huihui Fan, Julian A Gingold, Ruoji Zhou, Jian Tu, Zijun Huo, Ying Liu, Weidong Jin, Yi-Hung Chen, Yitian Xu, Shu-Hsia Chen, Nino Rainusso, Nathaniel K Berg, Danielle A Bazer, Christopher Vellano, Philip Jones, Holger K Eltzschig, Zhongming Zhao, Benny Abraham Kaipparettu, Ruiying Zhao, Lisa L Wang, Dung-Fang Lee

“…Here, we generated RTS patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to dissect the pathological signaling leading to RTS patient-associated osteosarcoma. …”
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Decellularized Human Stromal Lenticules Combine with Corneal Epithelial-Like Cells: A New Resource for Corneal Tissue Engineering by Shuai Qin, Shuai Zheng, Bing Qi, Rui Guo, Guanghui Hou

“…Lenticules which were treated with liquid nitrogen and nucleases had no cellular and nuclear materials remained. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be generated from the patient who requires keratoplasty, offering an autologous alternative and eliminating the risk of graft rejection. …”
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Evaluation for Retinal Therapy for RPE65 Variation Assessed in hiPSC Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells by Benjamin M. Nash, To Ha Loi, Milan Fernando, Amin Sabri, James Robinson, Anson Cheng, Steven S. Eamegdool, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Bruce Bennetts, John R. Grigg, Seo-Kyung Chung, Anai Gonzalez-Cordero, Robyn V. Jamieson

“…Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) generated from patients and the derivative retinal cells enable the investigation of pathological and novel variants in relevant cell populations. …”
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Mapping dynamic regulation of gene expression using single-cell transcriptomics and application to complex disease genetics by Hanna Abe, Phillip Lin, Dan Zhou, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Eric R. Gamazon

“…Here, we develop genetic models of cell-type-specific and cell-state-adjusted gene expression in mid-brain neurons undergoing differentiation from induced pluripotent stem cells. The resulting framework quantifies the dynamics of the genetic regulation of gene expression and estimates its cell-type specificity. …”
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PRMT7: A Pivotal Arginine Methyltransferase in Stem Cells and Development by Bingyuan Wang, Mingrui Zhang, Zhiguo Liu, Yulian Mu, Kui Li

“…It has been reported that PRMT7 is closely associated with embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, muscle stem cells, and human cancer stem cells. …”
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Generation of donor organs in chimeric animals via blastocyst complementation by T. I. Babochkina, L. A. Gerlinskaya, M. P. Moshkin

“…The technologies of producing induced pluripotent stem cells give us the opportunity to obtain human donor cells capable of populating a “free niche”. …”
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Comparison of Stemness and Gene Expression between Gingiva and Dental Follicles in Children by Chung-Min Kang, Seong-Oh Kim, Mijeong Jeon, Hyung-Jun Choi, Han-Sung Jung, Jae-Ho Lee

“…The expression of development, chemotaxis, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSs) related genes was assessed by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). …”
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Constructing an Isogenic 3D Human Nephrogenic Progenitor Cell Model Composed of Endothelial, Mesenchymal, and SIX2-Positive Renal Progenitor Cells by Lisa Nguyen, Lucas-Sebastian Spitzhorn, James Adjaye

“…Urine has become the source of choice for noninvasive renal epithelial cells and renal stem cells which can be used for generating induced pluripotent stem cells. The aim of this study was to generate a 3D nephrogenic progenitor cell model composed of three distinct cell types—urine-derived SIX2-positive renal progenitor cells, iPSC-derived mesenchymal stem cells, and iPSC-derived endothelial cells originating from the same individual. …”
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Nuclear Factor I-C Regulates Stemness Genes and Proliferation of Stem Cells in Various Mineralized Tissue through Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions in Dental Epithelial Stem Cell... by Dong-Seol Lee, Yeo Joon Song, Hye Ri Gug, Ji-Hyun Lee, Hyun Sook Bae, Joo-Cheol Park

“…Moreover, Nfic slightly increased reprogramming efficiency in induced pluripotent stem cells of mineralized tissues, but not in soft tissues. …”
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Long-term correction of hemophilia A via integration of a functionally enhanced FVIII gene into the AAVS1 locus by nickase in patient-derived iPSCs by Do-Hun Kim, Sang-Hwi Choi, Jin Jea Sung, Sieun Kim, Hanui Yi, Sanghyun Park, Chan Wook Park, Young Woo Oh, Jungil Lee, Dae-Sung Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim, Chul-Yong Park, Dong-Wook Kim

“…Genome editing in conjunction with patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is a promising cell therapy strategy, as it replaces dysfunctional proteins resulting from genetic mutations with normal proteins. …”
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The search for microRNAs potentially involved in the selfrenewal maintaining of laboratory rat pluripotent stem cells by V. V. Sherstyuk, S. P. Medvedev, M. T. Ri, Y. V. Vyatkin, O. V. Saik, D. N. Shtokalo, S. M. Zakian

“…We analyzed the expression of miRNAs in rat embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic fibroblasts using bioinformatic methods and data obtained with next generation sequencing. …”
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CalciumZero: a toolbox for fluorescence calcium imaging on iPSC derived brain organoids by Xiaofu He, Yian Wang, Yutong Gao, Xuchen Wang, Zhixiong Sun, Huixiang Zhu, Kam W. Leong, Bin Xu

“…However, a significant breakthrough in the field has emerged with the advent of utilizing patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to culture neurons and develop brain organoids. …”
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