• While it can be induced in a laboratory setting through processes like direct reprogramming and the production of induced pluripotent stem cells, endogenous dedifferentiation processes also exist as a component of wound healing mechanisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this research, we generate differentiated kidney cells (DKCs) from mouse pluripotent stem cells (mPSCs) analyzing their morphological, genetic, phenotypic, and spectroscopic characteristics along differentiation, highlighting that there are no reports of the use of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to characterize the directed differentiation of mPSCs to DKCs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • siRNA-mediated gene knockdown showed that hsp70 and dnaJb4, but not bag3, are required for progenitor cell targeting and distal regeneration. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Just as plant cells respond to injury by undergoing callus formation via dedifferentiation, some animal models dedifferentiate their cells to form blastema, which are analogous to plant calluses, after limb amputation. (wikipedia.org)
  • N1 transgenic hindlimbs, which do not regenerate, do not form an apical epithelial cap or cone shaped blastema following amputation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • After amputation, granular hemocytes infiltrate the blastema of regenerating cephalic tentacles of the freshwater snail Pomacea canaliculata. (unimore.it)
  • Histological studies focusing on the early cephalic tentacle regeneration in P. canaliculata, have demonstrated that wound closure and blastema formation took place within 24 h post amputation (hpa). (unimore.it)
  • Unidirectional regeneration in the basal chordate Ciona intestinalis involves the proliferation of adult stem cells residing in the branchial sac vasculature and the migration of progenitor cells to the site of distal injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This is in contrast to differentiation, where differences in gene expression, morphology, or physiology arise in a cell, making its function increasingly specialized. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, the concept of a marble moving downhill through various paths is used to represent cell decision-making and cell potency, thus visualizing how cells can take different paths of differentiation to reach a final state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, FTIR spectroscopy resulted in a non-invasive, rapid and precise technic that together with principal component analysis allows to characterize chemical and structurally both kind of cells and also discriminate and determine different stages along the cell differentiation process. (biomedcentral.com)
  • HIF-1α drives the transcription of NOG to inhibit osteogenic differentiation of periodontal ligament stem cells in response to hypoxia. (stembook.org)
  • Lowered Notch1 expression resulted in no tadpole tail regeneration, and induced Notch1 expression was able to partially rescue tail regeneration in the form of notochord and spinal cord (but very little musculature. (wikipedia.org)
  • Epimorphic regeneration is the process by which complete regeneration of a complex structure such as a limb occurs through production of a proliferating blastema. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Furthermore, the underlying mesenchyme remains rounded and does not expand to form a cone shaped blastema, a normal feature of successful regeneration. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Gene Ontology analysis showed that genes involved in embryonic development and growth are significantly over-represented in regenerating early hindlimb buds and that successful regeneration in the Xenopus hindlimb correlates with the induction of stress response pathways. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Epimorphic regeneration can be thought of as occurring in two phases: wound healing and cell proliferation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We have developed a heat shock inducible transgenic line ( N1 ) of Xenopus in which the BMP antagonist Noggin can be induced at a specific time during either development or regeneration, repressing BMP signalling [ 10 , 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We have used this line to show that BMP function is not only required for appendage regeneration but that it is specifically needed to generate a proliferating blastema while being dispensable for wound healing [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, after the Ciona body is bisected, regeneration occurs in the proximal but not in the distal fragments, even if the latter include a part of the branchial sac with stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Heat shock treatment of distal body fragments activated hsp70 and dnaJb4 expression indicative of a stress response, induced cell proliferation in branchial sac vasculature cells, and promoted distal regeneration. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The stress response is absent from distal fragments, but can be induced by a heat shock, which activates cell division in the branchial sac vasculature and promotes distal regeneration. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study demonstrates the importance of a stress response for stem cell activation and regeneration in a basal chordate, which may have implications for understanding the limited regenerative activities in other animals, including vertebrates. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Once the wound is healed, the cells of the stump must mobilise under the wound epidermis and begin the process of replacing lost tissues, by forming a proliferating blastema. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using Affymetrix Gene Chip analysis, we have identified genes linked to regenerative success downstream of BMP signalling, including the BMP inhibitor Gremlin and the stress protein Hsp60 ( no blastema in zebrafish). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The upregulation of HSP70 chaperone genes was verified and their expression confirmed in BS vasculature cells previously identified as stem and progenitor cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • At this stage, the limb bud appears as little more than a mesenchymal core covered by a thin layer of epithelium. (medscape.com)
  • Notch proteins are part of an intercellular signaling pathway responsible for regulating interactions between cells that are physically next to one another by binding to other notch proteins. (wikipedia.org)
  • Regarding vibrational spectroscopy analysis by FTIR, bands related with biomolecules were shown on mPSCs and DKCs spectra, observing distinct differences between cell lineages and maturation stages. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Embryonic GABAB Receptor Blockade Alters Cell Migration, Adult Hypothalamic Structure, and Anxiety- and Depression-Like Behaviors Sex Specifically in Mice. (arnes.si)
  • During the fifth week, differentiating mesenchymal cells condense in a proximal-to-distal fashion to form blastemas, which eventually develop into cartilaginous models of, ultimately, the bones of the upper extremity. (medscape.com)
  • Mesenchymal cells derived from the dermomyotome condense within connective tissue (mesenchymal) scaffolds to form 2 common muscle masses. (medscape.com)
  • After the injection of clodronate liposomes, a specific computer-assisted image analysis protocol still evidenced the presence of granular hemocytes in the tentacle blastema. (unimore.it)
  • This repressor would be able to keep cells undifferentiated during development. (wikipedia.org)
  • The genetic and protein experiments proved the obtention of DKCs that passed through the chronological stages of embryonic kidney development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our results indicated that we obtained DKCs from mPSCs, which passed through the chronological stages of embryonic kidney development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Leptin and NAP2 promote mesenchymal stem cell senescence through activation of PI3K/Akt pathway in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. (stembook.org)
  • However, others say that it can be used to describe a general increase in cell potency. (wikipedia.org)
  • This suggests an increase in cell potency, meaning that, following dedifferentiation, a cell may possess the ability to re-differentiate into more cell types than it did prior to dedifferentiation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1940s C. H. Waddington created the "Epigenetic Landscape", a diagrammatic representation of cell fate from less differentiated to more differentiated cell types. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the markers selected to represent dedifferentiation can differ according to tissue and cell types that are being studied. (wikipedia.org)
  • ESCs are obtained from inner cell mass, characterized by unlimited self-renewal and pluripotentiality, which allow them to differentiate into various specialized cells types in a morphologically and functionally way, characteristics that make them attractive for developing differentiated kidney cells (DKCs) [ 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The kidney is a complex organ composed of several cell types, and it is conformed approximately by 11,000 nephrons. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Nitric oxide-dependent immunosuppressive function of thymus-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells. (stembook.org)
  • Dedifferentiation (pronounced dē-ˌdi-fə-ˌren-chē-ˈā-shən) is a transient process by which cells become less specialized and return to an earlier cell state within the same lineage. (wikipedia.org)
  • CDK7-YAP-LDHD axis promotes D-lactate elimination and ferroptosis defense to support cancer stem cell-like properties. (stembook.org)
  • Downregulation of RCN1 promotes pyroptosis in acute myeloid leukemia cells. (stembook.org)
  • Consequently, because of the increased rate of RF in terminal stage and few alternative treatments, new investigations focused on regenerative medicine have been developed, including the use of stem cells (SCs) [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, experiments demonstrate that even at this early stage, cells are already polarized in some sense and carry positional information. (medscape.com)
  • This review will focus on the cardiovascular pathologies correlated to senescence, the effect of aging on the cardiac endogenous resources of stem cells, and the potential strategies of regenerative medicine to be applied to maintain the heart younger and healthier. (hindawi.com)
  • The mechanisms responsible for this decay are both cell intrinsic, such as cellular senescence, as well as cell-extrinsic, such as changes in the regenerative environment. (mdpi.com)
  • Immune cells are very effective in mammals and no regenerative blastema is formed. (atlasofscience.org)
  • When used in therapeutic applications, stem cells are generally harvested from bone marrow (femur of dogs and cats, the sternum of horses) or adipose tissue (inguinal region of dogs and cats, dorsal surface of the gluteus maximus of horses). (medrego.com)
  • Andrographolide protects bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells against glucose and serum deprivation under hypoxia via the NRF2 signaling pathway. (stembook.org)
  • Mesenchymal cells derived from the dermomyotome condense within connective tissue (mesenchymal) scaffolds to form 2 common muscle masses. (medscape.com)
  • Stem cells are unspecialized cells with the ability to differentiate into specialized building blocks of organs and tissues. (medrego.com)
  • The destructive phase is operated by immune cells that recognize antigens of larval tissues as not-self and those of the new organs as self. (atlasofscience.org)
  • Additionally, we dissect the effects of aging on the cardiac endogenous and exogenous reservoirs of stem cells. (hindawi.com)
  • Pathologies, as atherosclerosis, cardiac fibrosis, and cardiomyopathy, are often linked to the failure of cardiovascular tissue cells to reenter the cell cycle, namely, senescence, due to endogenous or exogenous causes. (hindawi.com)
  • However, identifying and securing suitable sources of stem cells for producing potent bioactive molecules to treat tissue defects and enhance wound healing is one of the main challenges. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although misplaced cell divisions can alter blastomere fates and cause embryonic defects, cleavage patterns have been modified several times during animal evolution. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Senescence in adult tissues can be classified in two main subcategories, based on the underlying molecular mechanism: replicative (or intrinsic), caused by telomere shortening, and stress-induced, in response to reactive oxygen species (ROS) and/or oncogenes [ 7 - 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • They fall under 2 classifications: embryonic stem cells, derived from 2- to 11-day-old blastocytes, and postnatal stem cells - also called somatic or adult stem cells - found in most adult tissues. (medrego.com)
  • At the molecular level, in fact, a gradual weakening of the cellular processes regulating cardiovascular homeostasis occurs in aging cells. (hindawi.com)
  • Although not fully understood, the process of regeneration occurs as a result of dedifferentiation of the cells at the amputation site into a mass of stem-like cells. (medrego.com)
  • Because the fibroblastic phase of tissue healing occurs within a few weeks after an injury is sustained, stem cell therapy is most efficacious when administered during that time frame. (medrego.com)
  • The dental lamina is induced from the oral epithelium. (nature.com)
  • The distal region of the dental lamina interacts with mesenchymal cells and forms a cup that is composed of the outer dental epithelium and the inner dental epithelium. (nature.com)
  • The mesenchymal cells facing the inner dental epithelium differentiate into a dental papilla. (nature.com)
  • This marks the transformation of the induced mesenchymal cells into an epithelium-the specialized podocytes , which ultimately surround the vascular endothelium of the glomerulus. (clinicalgate.com)
  • However, the markers selected to represent dedifferentiation can differ according to tissue and cell types that are being studied. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stem cells have been used successfully during the acute inflammatory stage of an injury, but once the bone has remodeled or tissue has matured, the utility of stem cell therapy falls significantly. (medrego.com)
  • In the veterinary world, stem cell therapy has been used primarily in soft tissue injury and wound healing. (medrego.com)
  • Hedgehog (Hh) signaling is essential for the regulation of embryonic growth and development, the maintenance of stem cell autostasis, and tissue formation, whether in vertebrates or invertebrates. (bvsalud.org)
  • MMP degrades proteins in the extracellular matrix [1] of a cell, resulting in the destabilization of the differentiated cell identity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Activation of the cellular senescence genetic program prompts a series of molecular changes, mostly affecting cell cycle, extracellular matrix (ECM), secretion of growth factors, and inflammatory mediators. (hindawi.com)
  • The Hedgehog signaling is a highly conserved pathway to regulate cell growth and proliferation, and plays an essential role in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) and other cancer types. (bvsalud.org)
  • In vitro, we investigated the effects of the ASC-CM on proliferation of HUVEC and NIH-3T3 cell lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results showed that ASC-CM significantly stimulated proliferation of the HUVEC and NIH-3T3 cells in vitro. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Dedifferentiation (pronounced dē-ˌdi-fə-ˌren-chē-ˈā-shən) is a transient process by which cells become less specialized and return to an earlier cell state within the same lineage. (wikipedia.org)
  • While it is commonly accepted as an aging-related phenomenon, senescence might happen also during the embryonic development with the biological meaning of replacing transient structures or specific cell types with other ones [ 3 - 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Stereotypic cleavage patterns play a crucial role in cell fate determination by precisely positioning early embryonic blastomeres. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Communications between cancer cells and fibroblasts were determined by the cell-chat algorithm, and the Hedgehog-related gene signature was constructed to predict the survival of STAD. (bvsalud.org)
  • GAS1, GLI1, and SCEBU2 were recognized as hub genes in the prognostic signature of STAD, and served as robust risk factors to induce a poor survival outcome. (bvsalud.org)
  • The process of forming separate digits involves the fragmentation of the AER and subsequent apoptosis, which involves programmed cell death (apoptosis) within the digital interspaces. (medscape.com)
  • In this study, we investigated the therapeutic effects and mechanism of antler stem cell-conditioned medium (ASC-CM) on cutaneous wound healing in rats. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This finding offers a potential to develop a cell-free therapeutic for cutaneous wound healing in the clinic. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Atherosclerosis and heart failure are particularly correlated with aging-related cardiovascular senescence, that is, the inability of cells to progress in the mitotic program until completion of cytokinesis. (hindawi.com)
  • Mitotic cells might undergo senescence by failing to replicate. (hindawi.com)
  • In these groups, the fertilized eggs divide through a highly stereotypic cleavage pattern where blastomeres at the 4-cell stage cleave with the mitotic spindles oblique to the animal-vegetal axis, alternating direction (clockwise and counterclockwise) at each division cycle, termed the spiral cleavage pattern [ 5 , 6 , 17 - 19 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These findings provide additional support that stereotypic cleavage patterns can be modified during evolution without major changes to the molecular identity and fate of embryonic blastomeres. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, previous studies were primarily conducted in terms of mRNA or vitro cell culture. (bvsalud.org)
  • This suggests an increase in cell potency, meaning that, following dedifferentiation, a cell may possess the ability to re-differentiate into more cell types than it did prior to dedifferentiation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The dental papilla cells then further differentiate into odontoblasts. (nature.com)
  • We demonstrated that MCs can be loaded into shed microvesicles with greater efficiency than their parental plasmid counterparts and that microvesicle-mediated MC delivery led to significantly higher and more prolonged transgene expression in recipient cells than microvesicles loaded with the parental plasmid. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • Stem cell therapy is emerging as another weapon in the veterinarian's arsenal, joining the numerous pharmacotherapeutics, surgical procedures, and mechanical devices employed to help patients return to full function or at least a more comfortable life. (medrego.com)
  • During the fifth week, differentiating mesenchymal cells condense in a proximal-to-distal fashion to form blastemas, which eventually develop into cartilaginous models of, ultimately, the bones of the upper extremity. (medscape.com)
  • Some claim that dedifferentiation is strictly limited to the same cell lineage from which it is derived. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using 3D-live imaging time-lapse microscopy (4D-microscopy), we characterize the cell lineage, MAPK signaling, and the expression of 16 developmental genes in the bryozoan Membranipora membranacea . (biomedcentral.com)
  • While Manning's research was in reference to plants, it helped establish the foundation for our modern day understanding of dedifferentiation and cell plasticity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cleavage is the sequence of cell divisions that turns a zygote into a multicellular embryo, and plays an essential role in the specification of cell fates before the onset of gastrulation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We previously demonstrated that microvesicles can functionally deliver plasmid DNA to cells and showed that plasmid size and sequence, in part, determine the delivery efficiency. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • In vivo delivery of TK-NTR and administration of prodrugs led to the effective killing of both targeted cells and surrounding tumor cells via TK-NTR-mediated conversion of co-delivered prodrugs into active cytotoxic agents. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • In vivo evaluation of the bystander effect in mouse models demonstrated that for effective therapy, at least 1% of tumor cells need to be delivered with TK-NTR-encoding MCs. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • Exogenous Fgf2, Fgf8, and Bmp7 expression could induce tooth placodes even in the denervated mandible. (nature.com)
  • Microvesicles loaded with MCs encoding a thymidine kinase (TK)/nitroreductase (NTR) fusion protein produced prolonged TK-NTR expression in mammary carcinoma cells. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • Even though spiral cleavage has been modified in a multitude of ways throughout evolution with changes in blastomere sizes and cell fate specification [ 5 , 17 - 19 ], the cleavage pattern itself remained fairly conserved. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, their mechanisms and functions, particularly in the context of human cells, are still unclear. (bvsalud.org)
  • The findings showed that 2 years after allogeneic tenogenically induced mesenchymal stem cell therapy was administered 5 days after injury, more than 80% of horses returned to their previous level of performance, and reinjury rates were 18% compared with 44% for conventional treatments. (medrego.com)
  • In amniotes more specialized immune cells tend to destroy cells with embryonic characteristics derived from healing after injury. (atlasofscience.org)
  • These results suggest that MC delivery via microvesicles can mediate gene transfer to an extent that enables effective prodrug conversion and tumor cell death such that it comprises a promising approach to cancer therapy. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • It would be more convincing to integrate single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data because it is a more precise approach for genomic research. (bvsalud.org)
  • In order to evaluate whether this wound healing promotion from the ASCs was species-specific, we injected this cell type into the model rats with cutaneous wounds and found that the wounds achieved similar healing results to those in deers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, experiments demonstrate that even at this early stage, cells are already polarized in some sense and carry positional information. (medscape.com)
  • The end of the eighth week marks the end of the embryonic period and the beginning of the fetal period. (medscape.com)
  • Science may not have dogs regrowing lost legs just yet, but a similar premise has driven investigations into stem cell therapy. (medrego.com)
  • Tendon and ligament lesions in sports horses are common and often career ending, so stem cell therapy has a particular appeal and has received the most attention in that area. (medrego.com)
  • Medrego is the leading Stem Cell provider in Northern Europe with a portfolio of hundreds of horses that improved quality of life and returned to work with the help of Medrego EquiCell allogeneic stem cell therapy for horses. (medrego.com)
  • Contact us, and we will tell you more about how exactly our stem cell therapy can help in improving your horse's health condition. (medrego.com)
  • Within the comma, a group of cells farthest from the end of the metanephric duct becomes polarized and forms a central lumen and a basal lamina on the outer surface. (clinicalgate.com)
  • In a retrospective chart review of 52 warmblood horses diagnosed with a variety of conditions (such as tendinitis of either the superficial or deep digital flexor tendon, or desmitis of either the suspensory or the inferior check ligament) and treated with allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood, 77% returned to work at the same or a higher level. (medrego.com)