• Moreover, we describe for the first time an association of the up-regulation of micro-RNA species such as hsa-miR-512-3p/-515/-517/-518/-525 and down-regulation of hsa-miR-99a/-100/-145 with a cisplatin resistant phenotype in human germ cell tumors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our approach was designed to characterize the role of micro-RNAs on the presumably multifactorial phenomenon of acquired cisplatin resistance in germ cell tumors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Markers have been most helpful in the workup of patients with germ cell tumors. (medscape.com)
  • In addition to their histologic characteristics, germ cell tumors retain molecular characteristics of their primordial lineage. (medscape.com)
  • Other biological markers for germ cell tumors include lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes and placental alkaline phosphatase, although these are less specific. (medscape.com)
  • AFP is a glycoprotein produced by fetal yolk sac elements and is produced by a wide range of cancers , including gastric , liver, and colon adenocarcinoma , as well as extracranial germ cell tumors. (medscape.com)
  • AFP is markedly elevated with endodermal sinus tumors and elevated to a lesser degree with embryonal cell carcinomas. (medscape.com)
  • Neither of these proteins has proven valuable in the diagnosis of pineal parenchymal cell tumors. (medscape.com)
  • Non-germ cell tumors can derive from pineal parenchymal cells, as well as from surrounding tissue. (medscape.com)
  • Calcium may be present in either pineal cell tumors or astrocytomas. (medscape.com)
  • Human embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are the stem cells of teratocarcinomas, and they are key components of germ cell tumors (GCTs). (sigmaaldrich.com)
  • According to the hypothesis, only a small group of stem cell-like tumor cells can form new tumors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The accepted pathogenetic model is a complex network including SOX2, SOX17, OCT3/4 and PRAME, which modulates the epigenetic transcription of numerous downstream genes and drives a divergent gene expression profile resulting in the transition from pure S (P-S) to S component (S-C) of mixed germ cell tumors of the testis (M-GCTT), and finally to embryonal carcinoma (EC). (bvsalud.org)
  • However, clinical significance and prognostic value of MAGE-A2 in different histological subtypes of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) have not been explored. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sacrococcygeal and cervicofacial teratomas represent the most common sites for extragonadal germ cell tumors in neonates and early childhood and account for more than 70% of teratomas in most series (2). (paedcro.com)
  • The hsa-miR-371-373 cluster (counteracting cellular senescence and linked with differentiation potency), as well as hsa-miR-520c/-520h (inhibiting the tumor suppressor p21) were 3.9-16.3 fold up-regulated in two of the three cisplatin resistant cell lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Establishment of germ-line-competent embryonic stem (ES) cells using differentiation inhibiting activity. (springer.com)
  • These cells are the original precursors of various cells in a tumor, whereas other intratumoral cells are limited in terms of their potential for proliferation and pluripotent differentiation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In addition, normal adult stem cells (ASCs) self-renew, proliferate infinitely, have a multidirectional differentiation potential, similar to that of tumor cells, and can transform more easily into tumor stem cells than non-stem cells [ 20 , 21 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Role of Otx2 in Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs): Otx2 is an intrinsic determinant required to maintain the ESC metastable state by antagonizing ground state pluripotency and promoting commitment to differentiation. (cnr.it)
  • The established dogma has however been challenged by recent findings suggesting that multipotent stem cells have a broader differentiation potential than previously thought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The present invention relates to methods of inducing differentiation of stem cells. (justia.com)
  • In particular, the invention relates to methods of inducing differentiation of embryonic stem cells into muscle cells or vascular endothelial cells. (justia.com)
  • The process of differentiation in stem cells involves selective development of immature cells to committed and fully mature cells of various lineages. (justia.com)
  • Differentiation of stem cells is known be triggered by various growth factors and regulatory molecules. (justia.com)
  • During differentiation the expression of stem cell specific genes and markers are often lost and cells acquire gene expression profiles of somatic cells or their precursors. (justia.com)
  • Whilst differentiation of some lineage specific stem cells can be induced with a degree of certainty, a differentiation outcome of a population of pluripotent stem cells is less predictable. (justia.com)
  • Placing the cells under conditions which induce specific cell types has been one form of an attempt to regulate the differentiation outcome. (justia.com)
  • These conditions include growing the cells to high or low density, changing media, introducing or removing cytokines, hormones and growth factors, creating an environment which suits differentiation toward a specific cell type, such as providing a suitable substrate. (justia.com)
  • Methods of inducing differentiation in stem cells and muscle cells produced therefrom may be used for the study of cellular and molecular biology of tissue development, for the discovery of genes and proteins such as differentiation factors that play a role in tissue development and regeneration. (justia.com)
  • The induction of cardiomyocyte differentiation in stem cells is especially useful in developing therapeutic methods and products for heart disease and abnormal heart conditions. (justia.com)
  • However, the molecular pathways that lead to specification and terminal differentiation of specific cell types, such as myocytes, from embryonic stem cells during development are not entirely clear. (justia.com)
  • Therefore there remains a need for providing effective methods of inducing differentiation of stem cells into specific cell types, such as myocytes or endothelial cells. (justia.com)
  • culturing a stem cell in the presence of an embryonic cell and/or extracellular medium of an embryonic cell, under conditions that induce differentiation of the stem cell. (justia.com)
  • In this review, we describe the cardiac differentiation from ES cells, iPS cells, and the current progress of using iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes for heart disease modeling and for the development of therapeutic strategies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here, we present a quantitative and comprehensive study of the abundance levels of histone PTMs during the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) using mass spectrometry (MS). We observed dynamic changes of histone PTMs including increased H3K9 methylation levels in agreement with previously reported results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Together, our data demonstrate the fundamental role of Brd4 in monitoring cell differentiation through its interaction with acetylated histone marks and disruption of Brd4 may cause aberrant differentiation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The production of terminally differentiated cells from such cells, therefore, requires successive changes of cell fates, meaning that genes relevant for the next stage of differentiation must be switched on and genes not relevant anymore must be switched off. (amegroups.org)
  • The development of the hematopoietic system has long served as model to understand how changes in gene regulatory networks drive the differentiation of the various blood cell types. (amegroups.org)
  • We created an in vitro model of acquired cisplatin resistance by long term exposure of three well established germ cell tumor cell lines to cisplatin, resulting in sublines with significantly increased resistance to cisplatin. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The paternal cell lines are (1) the p53-wt (wild type) pluripotent gonadal germ cell tumor cell line NTERA-2, (2) the p53-mutated pluripotent extragonadal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor cell line NCCIT and (3) the p53-wt nullipotent embryonal cell carcinoma 2102EP, derived from a primary human testicular teratocarcinoma. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Today, this technique continues to form the foundation for research on mammalian embryos, including technologies such as transgenic engineering, embryonic stem cell therapy, human in vitro fertilization, mammalian cloning, and knockout engineering. (avma.org)
  • The stem cell field witnessed a genuine breakthrough when a combination of solely four transcription factors ( Oct3 / 4 , Sox2 , Klf4 and c-Myc, OSKM ) proved enough to revert, in vitro, the differentiated status of a variety of cell types back to pluripotency, giving rise to so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. (springer.com)
  • Dr. Abdelbaset-Ismail has developed remarkable technical skills in cell transplantation for various animal models, molecular characterization, propagating cells in vitro and in vivo. (livedna.net)
  • The induction of a specific differentiated cell type can be useful for transplantation or drug screening and drug discovery in vitro. (justia.com)
  • Mouse ES cells have been widely utilized as an in vitro model to study cardiogenesis, as cardiomyocytes were found to spontaneously differentiate from ES cells after withdrawal of LIF (leukemia inhibitory factor), which functions to maintain the pluripotency of undifferentiated mouse ES cells [ 2 - 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A defined synthetic mixture of amino acids, salts, carbohydrates, vitamins and serum was shown to support cells in vitro[ 3 ], thus unifying a major variable in cell culturing experiments and providing a possibility for rapid development of this novel method. (intechopen.com)
  • Pluripotent cells can be differentiated into many different cell types in vitro. (biomedcentral.com)
  • After Kaufman left, Evans continued his work, upgrading his laboratory skills to the newest technologies, isolated the embryonic stem cell of the early mouse embryo and established it in a cell culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. (springer.com)
  • Evans MD, Kelley J. US attitudes toward human embryonic stem cell research. (springer.com)
  • After 3-4 d, bright, dome-shaped colonies with mouse embryonic stem cell morphology are passaged in 2iLI medium. (nature.com)
  • The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal. (nature.com)
  • Among these is the isolation of the first line of murine stem cells [ 5 , 6 ] in 1981, followed by establishment of the first human embryonic stem cell lines by Thompson [ 7 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • Analysis of male germ cell-related cell lines (F9, GC-1 and GC-2) revealed that some of the testis-specific lncRNAs were expressed in each of these cell lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our results revealed that all of them were expressed exclusively in the testis, and 23 of the 26 showed germ cell-specific expression. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is expected that a highly organized intrinsic genetic network is responsible for controlling spermatogenesis in the testis, and that the elucidation of the underlying molecular mechanism will help us further understand male germ cell development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We compared microRNA expression patterns in three cisplatin resistant sublines derived from paternal cisplatin sensitive germ cell tumor cell lines in order to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of cisplatin resistance. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Three cisplatin resistant sublines (NTERA-2-R, NCCIT-R, 2102EP-R) showing 2.7-11.3-fold increase in drug resistance after intermittent exposure to increasing doses of cisplatin were compared to their parental counterparts, three well established relatively cisplatin sensitive germ cell tumor cell lines (NTERA-2, NCCIT, 2102EP). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Significant variability in expression of tumor markers is such that the absence of AFP or bhCG does not rule out a mixed germ cell tumor. (medscape.com)
  • Pineal parenchymal cell tumor markers are less well characterized than their germ cell counterparts and include melatonin and the S antigen. (medscape.com)
  • From there, Dr. Brinster became interested in modifying the development of animals and their germ lines, and he went on to become the first person to show that it was possible to colonize a mouse blastocyst with stem cells from older embryos. (avma.org)
  • Martin GR. Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells. (springer.com)
  • Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos. (springer.com)
  • Naive human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can be used to generate mature human cells of all three germ layers in mouse-human chimeric embryos. (nature.com)
  • Established naive hPSCs are injected into mouse blastocysts, which produce E17.5 mouse embryos containing 0.1-4.0% human cells as quantified by next-generation sequencing of 18S ribosomal DNA amplicons. (nature.com)
  • The protocol is suitable for studying the development of hPSCs in mouse embryos and may facilitate the generation of human cells, tissues and organs in animals. (nature.com)
  • Transient inhibition of mTOR in human pluripotent stem cells enables robust formation of mouse-human chimeric embryos. (nature.com)
  • Embryonic stem (ES) cells are naturally derived from early stage embryos and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are reprogrammed from somatic cells with overexpression of four reprogramming factors, Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The immune system which results from cells of the lymphoid and myeloid lineages is developed in vivo, so as to recognize self from non-self. (justia.com)
  • Derivation of pluripotent stem cells with in vivo embryonic and extraembryonic potency. (nature.com)
  • Histone acetylation has been implicated to be important for the pluripotent cell state, as some HDAC inhibitors have been shown to improve reprogramming efficiency of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) or maintain a pluripotent stem cell state. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Errors arising in stem and progenitor cells have a much greater influence on the tissue in which they are found than errors arising in postmitotic differentiated cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • He has also gained salient experience in various experimental setups using hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow, cord blood-derived and adipose tissue-derived MSCs, very small embryonic-like stem cells, leukemic cells, and germline-derived cells. (livedna.net)
  • Embryonic stem (ES) cells are derived from the embryo and are pluripotent, thus possessing the capability of developing into any organ, cell type or tissue type. (justia.com)
  • To do so, cells release signaling molecules that can move around within a tissue and be detected by receptors on other cells. (elifesciences.org)
  • We tend to assume that the signaling molecules are evenly distributed across a tissue and affect all the receiving cells in the same way. (elifesciences.org)
  • Cells responding to the signal somehow can ignore this noise and establish sharp boundaries between different cell types so that neighboring cells have distinct roles in the tissue. (elifesciences.org)
  • Moreover, Dr. Brinster first demonstrated that teratocarcinoma cells could combine with blastocyst cells to form adult chimeric mice, establishing the feasibility of this approach to change the genetic character of mice. (avma.org)
  • Approximately five days after fertilization the totipotent cells have differentiated and started to form a hollow sphere of cells called a blastocyst. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are self-renewing, pluripotent cells derived from the inner cell mass (ICM) of a blastocyst [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is therefore of interest to find effective ways to produce cells which may function, proliferate, and differentiate as appropriate, while being safe from attack by a recipient's immune system. (justia.com)
  • The pluripotent stem cells differentiate further into cells commonly called multipotent stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Until recently it was considered a fact that, for example, hematopoietic stem cells did not have the potential to differentiate into cells of other types than the cells constituting the blood system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Generally, when a stem cell culture is induced to differentiate, the differentiated population is analysed for particular cell types by expression of genes, markers or phenotypic analysis. (justia.com)
  • In particular, the induction of stem cells to differentiate into muscle cells (myocytes) is useful for muscle transplantation and therapeutic purposes, as well as providing potential human disease models in culture (e.g. for testing pharmaceuticals). (justia.com)
  • Novel evidence that the mannan-binding lectin pathway of complement activation plays a pivotal role in triggering mobilization of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells by activation of both the complement and coagulation cascades. (livedna.net)
  • These cells are commonly termed embryonic germ (EG) cells because they are derived from primordial germ cells found at the genital ridges in developing fetuses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A wide variety of hematopoietic cells exist, with the major protective lineages being lymphoid and myeloid. (justia.com)
  • Therefore, the expression of embryonic proteins, such as alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and bhCG, are indicative of malignant germ cell elements. (medscape.com)
  • Can precancerous stem cells be risk markers for malignant transformation in the oral mucosa? (biomedcentral.com)
  • Results identified elevated CR-1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) specimens which correlated to poor prognosis of the patients. (cusabio.com)
  • Stem cells and regenerative medicine - future perspectives. (springer.com)
  • Stem cells in regenerative medicine: introduction. (springer.com)
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are useful for the development of therapies in regenerative medicine, analysis of pathogenesis, and exploration of candidate drugs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Successful reprogramming of epiblast stem cells by blocking nuclear localization of beta-catenin. (nature.com)
  • Role of Otx2 in Epiblast Stem Cells (EpiSCs): Otx2 stabilizes the primed EpiSC state by suppressing mesendoderm into neural fate switch in cooperation with BMP4 and Fgf2. (cnr.it)
  • These stem cells are considered committed to certain cell lineages. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Specifically, human iPS cells could be utilized to generate patient-specific lineages for a variety of translational research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ES cells were aggregated into three-dimensional structures, termed embryoid bodies (EBs), and suspended in media containing fetal calf serum. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Further, for stage 2, serum creatinine levels should be around 2.0-3.0-fold above the reference line with urine output below 0.5 mL/kg/h for over 12 h. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In addition, embryonic stem cells may be modified by homologous recombination for use in producing chimeric or transgenic mammalian hosts, which may be used as source of universal donor organs. (justia.com)
  • The protective mechanism which protects the host from disease, as a result of invasion of viruses, bacteria, or other pathogens, is also able to recognize cells which come from a different mammalian host, even an allogeneic host. (justia.com)
  • Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. (springer.com)
  • Primed hPSCs are treated with a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor (Torin1) for 3 h and dissociated to single cells, which are plated on mouse embryonic fibroblasts in 2iLI medium, a condition essentially the same for culturing mouse embryonic stem cells. (nature.com)
  • Interspecies chimerism with mammalian pluripotent stem cells. (nature.com)
  • When the host lacks the ability to raise a defense against a particular disease, there may also be an interest in administering specific T-cells or B-cells or precursors thereof which may supplement the host's compromised immune system. (justia.com)
  • The developmental capacity of nuclei transplanted from keratinized skin cells of adult frogs. (springer.com)
  • Multipotent stem cells are present in the adult individual as well as the fetus and umbilical cord. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A recent study indicates that even adult humans might harbor cells resembling pluripotent embryonic stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Examples of multipotent stem cells are those producing blood, nerve and muscle cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although several reports indicate an ability of multipotent stem cells to produce cells even outside their normal limits, most of these findings remain highly controversial. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Multipotent aşama, hücrelerin, genellikle germ tabakası kökenlerine bağlı olarak, sınırlı spesifik hücre tiplerine farklılaşma yeteneği ilekarakterize edilir (6). (adaveteriner.com)
  • Expression analysis of the human Hox Complex in teratocarcinoma cells (N-tera2/D1) upon treatment with retinoic acid and the definition of temporal colinearity concept. (cnr.it)
  • Two cells in the same position can have very different retinoic acid levels, and the levels in a particular cell can vary from one minute to the next. (elifesciences.org)
  • The experiments also show that proteins that interact with retinoic acid help to reduce noise within a cell. (elifesciences.org)
  • Choriocarcinomas secrete large amounts of bhCG, and lesser elevations can occur in patients with embryonal cell carcinomas. (medscape.com)
  • Human rhabdomyosarcoma cells express functional pituitary and gonadal sex hormone receptors: Therapeutic implications. (livedna.net)
  • Stem cells are undifferentiated cells which can give rise to a succession of mature functional cells. (justia.com)
  • Molecular mechanism controlling the expression of the HOX Complex gene family in human teratocarcinoma cells (N-tera2/D1). (cnr.it)
  • In other cases, where certain cells are lacking, such as islets of Langerhans in the case of diabetes, or cells which secrete dopamine in the case of Parkinson's disease, or bone marrow cells in various hematopoietic diseases, or muscle cells in muscle wasting disease, or retinal epithelial cells in visual disorders, it would be desirable to be able to provide cells which could fulfill the desired function. (justia.com)
  • In addition, we summarize the recent direct reprogramming of cardiomyocytes from fibroblast cells, which provides another method for potential heart disease therapy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Because in order to avoid renal injury, the recovery of affected cells is as significant as preventing its progression towards end stage renal disease [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The field of the subject invention is the use of major histocompatibility complex antigen lacking cells and organs which may serve as universal donors in cellular and organ therapies including transplantation and to produce chimeric non-human mammals. (justia.com)
  • Transplantation of living nuclei from blastula cells into enucleated frogs' eggs. (springer.com)
  • To take human organ generation via BC and transplantation to the next step, we reviewed current emerging organ generation technologies and the associated efficiency of chimera formation in human cells from the standpoint of developmental biology. (frontiersin.org)
  • in 1956 and Till and McCulloch in 1961, demonstrating that lethally irradiated mice could be rescued with cells from freshly isolated bone marrow [ 10 ] and that BM cells formed spleen clonies (CFU-S) following transplantation to irradiated recipients [ 30 ], respectively. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The differentiated ES cell cultures are heterogeneous and contain undifferentiated ES cells, which could result in teratoma formation after transplantation into the host. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The images were captured on a BD Pathway™ 435 Cell Analyzer using a 20X objective and merged using BD Attovision™ software. (bdbiosciences.com)
  • Sir Martin John Evans FRS FMedSci FLSW (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. (wikipedia.org)
  • We utilized a quantitative RT-PCR (RTQ-PCR) based platform for detection of almost all currently known (738) human micro-RNA species on these 6 cell lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • New cell lines from mouse epiblast share defining features with human embryonic stem cells. (nature.com)
  • Derivation of novel human ground state naive pluripotent stem cells. (nature.com)
  • Derivation of naive human embryonic stem cells. (nature.com)
  • Wang, Y. & Gao, S. Human naive embryonic stem cells: how full is the glass? (nature.com)
  • This antibody reacts with TRA-1-60 antigen that is expressed upon the surface of human tetracarcinoma stem cells (EC), human embryonic germ cells (EG) and human embryonic stem cells (ES). (sigmaaldrich.com)
  • There are different types of stem cells that best can be described in the context of normal human development [ 23 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Bioactive phospholipids enhance migration and adhesion of human leukemic cells by inhibiting Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) and inducible nitric oxygenase synthase (iNOS) in a p38 MAPK-dependent manner. (livedna.net)
  • Pituitary sex hormones enhance the pro metastatic potential of human lung cancer cells by downregulating the intracellular expression of heme oxygenase 1. (livedna.net)
  • Both ES cells and iPS cells are pluripotent stem cells with capabilities of indefinite self-renewal and can be differentiated into almost all cell types of the body, which make them valuable for studying early developmental biology, for modeling and as therapy for human diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For this reason, as well as because of concerns regarding the irreversibility of any changes made to the embryo and their perpetuation in future generations, human germline or reproductive editing is basically prohibited the world over. (lindau-nobel.org)
  • Differential dosage-dependent roles of OTX2 in specifying regional identities and neuronal cell types during brain development. (cnr.it)
  • Activation of muscle-specific genes in pigment, nerve, fat, liver, and fibroblast cell lines by forced expression of MyoD. (springer.com)
  • BACKGROUND: In recent years, several studies investigated the complex process called "reprogramming" of seminoma (S) cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, random variations (noise) that affect how many of these molecules are produced, how they move through the space between cells and how they bind to receptors makes the reality much more complex. (elifesciences.org)
  • This complex process is regulated by the interplay of transcription factors with a chromatin environment, both of which provide the epigenetic information maintaining cell-type specific gene expression patterns. (amegroups.org)
  • In the developing embryo, TFs regulating the assembly/disassembly of transcriptional complexes and ultimately gene expression, are directed by complex extrinsic signalling processes which connect all cells within a multi-cellular organism to their environment. (amegroups.org)
  • Only the has-miR-10b involved in breast cancer invasion and metastasis and has-miR-512-3p appeared to be up-regulated (2-3-fold) in all three cell lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We speculate that precancerous stem cells (pCSCs) arise during the evolution of carcinomas based on long-term experimental findings, published literature, and the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory, wherein pCSCs exist in precancerous lesions and have characteristics of both CSCs and normal stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Therefore, investigations on testing and maintaining the integrity of genomic DNA within precancerous stem cells (pCSCs), which are within the framework of the cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis, are necessary. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Later on, Dr. Abdelbaset-Ismail then has joined the Stem Cell Institute at James Graham Brown Cancer, University of Louisville, as a Visiting Scholar from September 2013 to March 2014, where he has been then employed as a Postdoctoral Associate beginning May 2014. (livedna.net)
  • He has also much experience in context of homing, mobilization, and engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells and cancer research. (livedna.net)
  • CR-1 high cells isolated from ESCC cells possess cancer stem-like cells (ECSLC) properties. (cusabio.com)
  • Morphogen gradients induce sharply defined domains of gene expression in a concentration-dependent manner, yet how cells interpret these signals in the face of spatial and temporal noise remains unclear. (elifesciences.org)
  • The stimulus for the change of cell fate originates from extrinsic signals which set a cascade of intracellular processes in motion that eventually terminate at the genome leading to changes in gene expression and the development of alternate gene regulatory networks. (amegroups.org)
  • He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice. (wikipedia.org)
  • A few of the cells in the inner cell mass will develop into the foetus, whereas the rest will form the placenta and other supporting tissues needed for foetal development in the uterus. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Animal cells need to be able to communicate with each other so that they can work together in tissues and organs. (elifesciences.org)
  • Knockdown of Cripto-1 inhibits the proliferation, migration, invasion, and angiogenesis in prostate carcinoma cells. (cusabio.com)
  • It includes the possible stem cell therapy mechanisms involved and outcomes recorded so far, the limitations of using these regenerative medicines, and the progressive improvement in stem cell therapy by adopting approaches like PiggyBac, Sleeping Beauty, and the Sendai virus. (biomedcentral.com)