Service to confirm pluripotency and evaluate differentiation potential of human and mouse ESC/iPSC lines in-vitro via Embryoid Body Formation and Characterization Assay.

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When aiming for homogenous embryoid body (EB) differentiation, the use of equal-sized EBs is required to avoid a size-induced differentiation bias. In this study we developed an efficient and standardized EB formation protocol for human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) cultured in a laminin-521-based xeno-free system. As the cell proliferation rate of the cells growing on laminin-521 strongly affected the efficiency of aggregate formation, we found that recently passaged cells, as well as the addition of ROCK inhibitor, were essential for reproducible EB formation from hPSC single-cell suspensions. EBs could be obtained in a variety of differentiation media, in 96-well round-bottom plates and in hanging drops. Gene expression studies on differentially sized EBs from three individual human embryonic stem cell lines demonstrated that the medium used for differentiation influenced the differentiation outcome to a much greater extent than the number of cells used for the initial EB formation. Our ...

Cao T , Heng BC , Ye CP et al. Osteogenic differentiation within intact human embryoid bodies result in a marked increase in osteocalcin secretion after 12 days of in vitro culture, and formation of morphologically distinct nodule-like structures. Tissue Cell 2005; 37:325-334 ...

The formation of spherical aggregates of cells called embryoid bodies (EBs) is an indispensable step in many protocols in which embryonic stem (ES) cells are differentiated to other cell types. Appropriate morphology and embryo size are critical for the sequential developmental stages of naturally conceived

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AggreWell™ plates bring an easy & standardized approach to the production of embryoid bodies and 3D spheroids, from a variety of cell types.

AggreWell™ plates bring an easy & standardized approach to the production of embryoid bodies and 3D spheroids, from a variety of cell types.

Embryonic stem cells (ES cells) represent a population of self renewing pluripotent cells, capable of differentiating into derivatives of the 3 embryonic germ layers and are therefore a promising source material for generation of replacement pancreatic beta cells for transplantation in type 1 diabetes. ES cells can be induced to undergo unregulated differentiation when cultured as floating clusters (embryoid bodies). Successful generation of pancreatic endocrine cells from ES cells has thus far relied on embryoid body formation as an initial step. However, selection and expansion of sufficient quantities of insulin -secreting cells has remained a problem. Data presented here show a novel route for ES cell differentiation avoiding embryoid body formation and resulting in a cell population that expresses markers of pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation. The CCE mouse ES cell line was cultured in standard ES cell medium. Cultures were grown to high confluence to create large differentiated ...

Establishment of porcine induced pluripotent stem cells Jenn-Rong Yang. The purpose of this study is to establish and study pluripotency, efficiency of embryoid body formation, and potency of differentiation of porcine induced pluripotent stem (piPS) cells. The results showed that the morphology of porcine ear fibroblasts were transformed into colony type from spindle type one month after infection with defined factors of Oct4, Sox2, Klf, and c-Myc. After co-cultured with STO cells, typical colony morphology of stem cells was found. The piPS cells expressed pluripotent cellular markers including Oct-4, AP, SSEA-3, SSEA-4, TRA-1-60, and TRA-1-81 antigens. The efficiency of embryoid body formation of pips cells was excellent when induced by using hanging drop method. The karyotype of the piPS cells was also normal (36+XY). In addition, transplantation of piPS cells into NOD-SCID mice resulted teratomas .Various differentiated cells were found in the teratoma, such as neural cells, keratinocytes, ...

Title: A High Proliferation Rate is Critical for Reproducible and Standardized Embryoid Body Formation from Laminin-521-Based Human Pluripotent Stem Cell ...

I am trying to overload opEquals for a struct. The struct will hold class objects that define their own opEquals so the default bitwise comparison is not good for me. Everything works nicely if I compare the structs directly. Yet when they are used as keys in an associative array, the code throws an exception that I do not understand. My minimal code example is this: debug import std.stdio; struct Foo(T) { int[T] content; bool opEquals(const(Foo!T) that) { debug writeln(opEquals called); return true; } alias content this; } class Bar { } void main() { Foo!Bar a = Foo!Bar(); Foo!Bar b = Foo!Bar(); assert(a == b); debug writeln(This works); Foo!Bar[int] x = [1: Foo!Bar()]; x[1][new Bar] = 1; Foo!Bar[int] y = [1: Foo!Bar()]; y[1][new Bar] = 1; assert(x == y); debug writeln(This does not work); } Here is what I get (using DMD64 D Compiler v2.086.0): opEquals called This works object.Error@(0): TypeInfo.equals is not implemented ??:? bool object._xopEquals(const(void*), const(void*)) [0x49e844] ...

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Hematopoietic precursors have been obtained from hES cells by either co-culturing or by inducing them with growth factors. In the first study to isolate blood cell progenitors from hES cells, Kaufman et al. (Kaufman et al., 2001) cultured ES cells on marrow stromal or yolk sac-derived cell lines, and monitored the culture for the expression of blood cell lineage markers, such as CD34. The appearance of CD34+ cells peaked at 17 days, at a level of 1-2% of the total cells, and declined thereafter; these cells were also CD45- (a general marker for hematopoetic cells), but many were CD31+ (a marker of the endothelial lineage). These progenitors could form both erythroid and myeloid colonies in agar. The expression of adult and fetal hemoglobin, but not embryonic globin, was observed during erythroid differentiation.. Chadwick et al. (Chadwick et al., 2003) used a combination of embryoid body formation and treatment with various hematopoietic cytokines, plus BMP4, to induce the formation of ...

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EBs are formed by the homophilic binding of the Ca2+ dependent adhesion molecule E-cadherin, which is highly expressed on undifferentiated ESCs.[19][20][21] When cultured as single cells in the absence of anti-differentiation factors, ESCs spontaneously aggregate to form EBs.[19][22][23][24] Such spontaneous formation is often accomplished in bulk suspension cultures whereby the dish is coated with non-adhesive materials, such as agar or hydrophilic polymers, to promote the preferential adhesion between single cells, rather than to the culture substrate. As hESC undergo apoptosis when cultured as single cells, EB formation often necessitates the use of inhibitors of the rho associated kinase (ROCK) pathway, including the small molecules Y-27632[25] and 2,4 disubstituted thiazole (Thiazovivin/Tzv).[26] Alternatively, to avoid dissociation into single cells, EBs can be formed from hESCs by manual separation of adherent colonies (or regions of colonies) and subsequently cultured in suspension. ...

Methods of tissue engineering, and more particularly methods and compositions for generating various vascularized 3D tissues, such as 3D vascularized embryoid bodies and organoids are described. Certain embodiments relate to a method of generating functional human tissue, the method comprising embedding an embryoid body or organoid in a tissue construct comprising a first vascular network and a second vascular network, each vascular network comprising one or more interconnected vascular channels; exposing the embryoid body or organoid to one or more biological agents, a biological agent gradient, a pressure, and/or an oxygen tension gradient, thereby inducing angiogenesis of capillary vessels to and/or from the embryoid body or organoid; and vascularizing the embryoid body or organoid, the capillary vessels connecting the first vascular network to the second vascular network, thereby creating a single vascular network and a perfusable tissue structure.

Culture conditions that delay VE formation also block cardiac differentiation, but cardiac differentiation is partially rescued by the addition of endodermally

Nothings better than a comfortable bowl of Yong Tau Foo! We grew up eating this dish, and this version - Hakka Yong Tau Foo - is famed for its tasty minced meat stuffing.

A Perl based script for rotating EBS snapshots (in grandfather-father-son style) that uses parameters conserved from ec2-consistent-snapshot.

A Perl based script for rotating EBS snapshots (in grandfather-father-son style) that uses parameters conserved from ec2-consistent-snapshot.

This study explored the potential of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) in the research and therapy of cardiovascular diseases. hiPSCs were derived from neonatal and adult dermal fibroblasts via retroviral transduction of OCT-4, SOX-2, c-MYC and KLF-4 and they were differentiated into cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) and mesenchymal stem cells (hiPSC-MSCs) via embryoid body formation. Electrophysiological and calcium imaging assays identified immature yet functionally adequate ventricular-, atrial-, and nodal-like hiPSC-CMs. H2S inhibited L-type Ca2+ current and outward rectifier potassium currents in hiPSC-CMs. Moreover, hiPSC-MSCs expressed typical surface markers and were capable of adipogenesis, chondrogenesis and osteogenesis. Compared with bone marrow MSCs, hiPSC-MSCs demonstrated superior self-renewal, pro-angiogenic and wound-healing potential. This study proves the feasibility of generating hiPSCs from young and older donors. It suggests that hiPSC-CMs are functionally adequate for ...

Our previous study demonstrated the direct involvement of the HIF-1α subunit in the promotion of cardiac differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs). We report the use of cobalt chloride to induce HIF-1α stabilization in human ESCs to promote cardiac differentiation. Treatment of undifferentiated hES2 human ESCs with 50μM cobalt chloride markedly increased protein levels of the HIF-1α subunit, and was associated with increased expression of early cardiac specific transcription factors and cardiotrophic factors including NK2.5, vascular endothelial growth factor, and cardiotrophin-1. When pretreated cells were subjected to cardiac differentiation, a notable increase in the occurrence of beating embryoid bodies and sarcomeric actinin-positive cells was observed, along with increased expression of the cardiac-specific markers, MHC-A, MHC-B, and MLC2V. Electrophysiological study revealed increased atrial-and nodal-like cells in the cobalt chloride-pretreated group. Confocal calcium ...

Purpose : To differentiate neural retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) - derived spherical neural masses (SNMs) and investigate whether the RPCs survive and differentiate in a mouse retina. Methods : SNMs were derived from hiPSCs by going through embryoid body formation, neural precursors selection, neural precursors expansion and dissection of neural structures. RPCs were differentiated from SNMs with noggin/fibroblast growth factor-basic (bFGF)/Dickkopf-1(Dkk-1)/Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)/fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF-9) protocol for three weeks. Differentiation profiles of human RPCs in vitro were analyzed by immunocytochemistry and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis. Human RPCs were transplanted into the mouse (adult 8-12 weeks old C57BL/6) retina. Transplanted eye was examined post-operatively at three months and analyzed with immunohistochemistry. Results : Human RPCs from hiPSCs - derived ...

In vitro human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can differentiate into functional cardiomyocytes (CMs). Protocols for cardiac differentiation of hESCs and

Cardiac differentiation of iPSC-derived from CPVT1 RyR2R420Q and CPVT2 CASQ2D307H patients and healthy control. (A) Immunofluorescence expression of typical myo

Researchers are now reporting advances in complex three-dimensional structures development using gelatin-based microparticles to deliver growth factors to specific areas of embryoid bodies, aggregates of differentiating stem cells.

Anyone familiar with IntelliJs New -, Clojure namespace? Im in the process of creating my first Clojure library to push to Clojars. I started with a simple lein new foo. This template creates a source structure like src/foo, but I would like it to be src/clj/foo (in preparation for cljs and cljc being added later). My issue now is that whenever I create a new namespace in IntelliJ, it insists on calling it clj.foo.newns instead of foo.newns. Inconvenient, and the running lein test-refresh complains right away about a missing namespace. I cant seem to figure out where this might be configured, project.clj, IntelliJ itself or possibly by Cursive. Sidenote: For my regular projects I use the Luminus template that has my desired source structure, and then IntelliJ works the way I would like. Any help appreciated.. ...

Since it was first demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) could be derived from mature cells, significant progress has been made in the field of acquisition, characteristics, identification and application of iPS cells. Until now, diverse means have been proven to generate iPS cells successfully in many biological species and more cell types. Meanwhile, researchers continue to target the efficiency of induction. To identify the characteristics of induced pluripotent stem cells and attest to their pluripotency, one must verify the expression of new derived stem cell genes and proteins, doubling times, methylation patterns, teratoma formation, embryoid body formation, viable chimera formation and capacity to differentiate into all cell types. In other words, induced pluripotent stem cells are theoretically similar, or even same, to natural pluripotent stem cells, for instance embryonic stem (ES) cells. Furthermore, iPS cells have the potential to take the place of ES cells ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Effects of Activin in Embryoid Bodies Expressing Fibroblast Growth Factor 5. AU - Shirouzu, Yasumasa. AU - Yanai, Goichi. AU - Yang, Kai Chiang. AU - Sumi, Shoichiro. PY - 2016/6/1. Y1 - 2016/6/1. N2 - Nodal/activin signaling is indispensable for embryonic development. We examined what activin does to the embryoid bodies (EBs) produced from mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) expressing an epiblast marker. The EBs were produced by culturing mESCs by the hanging drop method for 24 hours. The resulting EBs were transferred onto gelatin-coated dishes and allowed to further differentiate. The 24-hour EBs showed a stronger expression of fibroblast growth factor (FGF)5 and Brachyury (specific to the epiblast) in comparison with mESCs. Treating the transferred EBs with activin A maintained transcript levels of FGF5 and Oct4, while inhibiting definitive endoderm differentiation. The activin A treatment reversed the endoderm differentiation induced by retinoic acid (RA), while the ...

The term embryoid body has been broadly applied to describe pluripotent cell aggregates induced to differentiate using a variety of different formation and culture methods. Generally, an aggregate of pluripotent stem cells, cultured in suspension, and capable of forming derivatives of all three germ lineages is regarded as an EB. Although no universally accepted benchmarks currently exist for EB formation, characteristics such as EB size, shape, and homogeneity are typically used as points of reference for comparison. Common EB culture practices, such as hanging drop and static suspension culture were adopted from in vitro differentiation methods originally used for embryonic carcinoma (EC) cells, pluripotent precursors to the ESCs themselves.37 A comprehensive review describing several of the most common EB culture methods has recently been published.38. The hanging drop method of EB formation produces homogeneous cell aggregates by dispensing a defined number of ESCs in physically separated ...

This is a combined protocol for the generation of embryonic germ cells (EGCs) or male gametes from embryoid bodies (EBs) constructed from mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). The induced primordial germ cells mature into haploid male gametes that can be injected into oocytes and develop into blastocysts ...

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This video demonstrates how to conduct in vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells to embryoid bodies using the hanging drop ...

Cellular therapies have great potential to provide alternative treatment options for those suffering from heart disease. In order to optimize cell delivery for therapeutic efficacy, a greater understanding of parameters that impact stem cell differentiation, survival, growth, and development are needed. In t

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Since the first discovery that human pluripotent stem cells (hPS cells) can differentiate to cardiomyocytes, efforts have been made to optimize the conditions under which this process occurs

Here, we present human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) culture protocols, based on non-colony type monolayer (NCM) growth of dissociated...

Tissue-specific gene inactivation using the Cre-loxP system has become an important tool to unravel functions of genes when the conventional null mutation is lethal. We report here the generation of a transgenic mouse line expressing Cre recombinase in endothelial cells. In order to avoid the production and screening of multiple transgenic lines we used embryonic stem cell and embryoid body technology to identify recombinant embryonic stem cell clones with high, endothelial-specific Cre activity. One embryonic stem cell clone that showed high Cre activity in endothelial cells was used to generate germline chimeras. The in vivo efficiency and specificity of the transgenic Cre was analysed by intercrossing the tie-1-Cre line with the ROSA26R reporter mice. At initial stages of vascular formation (E8-9), LacZ staining was detected in almost all cells of the forming vasculature. Between E10 and birth, LacZ activity was detected in most endothelial cells within the embryo and of extra-embryonic ...

Background: MiR-499 is a cardiac-abundant miRNA. However, the biological functions of miR-499 in differentiated cardiomyocytes or in the cardiomyocyte differentiation process is not very clear. Sox6 is believed to be one of its targets, and is also believed to play a role in cardiac differentiation. Therefore, our aim was to investigate the association between Sox6 and miR-499 during cardiac differentiation.. Methodology/Principal Findings: Using a well-established in vitro cardiomyocyte differentiation system, mouse P19CL6 cells, we found that miR-499 was highly expressed in the late stage of cardiac differentiation. In cells stably transfected with miR-499 (P-499 cells), it was found that miR-499 could promote the differentiation into cardiomyocytes at the early stage of cardiac differentiation. Notably, cell viability assay, EdU incorporation assay, and cell cycle profile analysis all showed that the P-499 cells displayed the distinctive feature of hyperplastic growth. Further investigation ...

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent cells derived from developing mouse blastocysts in vitro that maintain long‐term self renewal and the capacity to give rise to all cell types in the adult body (including some extraembryonic cell types) when subjected to the appropriate conditions

This protocol describes the generation of a mixed progenitor population from human embryonic stem cells and further isolation of renal cells.. ...

Introduction Cell lineages arise during development Ectodermal tissues Mesodermal tissues Endodermal tissues EBs resemble the embryo of the egg- cylinder stage Neuronal cells Cardiac muscle cells Hematopoietic cells Yolk sac cells ES cells have full developmental potential EBs from ES cells EBs consist of: Later stages EBs are composed of:

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Description: PluriSln 1(NSC 14613) is a selective inhibitor of steroyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) that selectively eliminates human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) leaving a large array of progenitor and differentiated cells unaffected. PluriSln 1 induces ER stress, protPubMed ID:http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/128/9/1214. ...

Proposed Study of Methods Designed to Increase Yield of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell (hPSC) Cultures for Scientific and Clinical Use. Faculty Sponsor: Yuguo Lei. ...

Paul Eggert ,address@hidden, writes: , Simon Josefsson ,address@hidden, writes: , ,, I thought that POSIX (or C99?) implied user code shouldnt use CPP ,, symbols that began with _? , , C99 reserves all identifiers that begin with an underscore and either , an uppercase letter or another underscore, for any use. (Some other , identifiers are also reserved, in some contexts.) And POSIX doesnt further refine this? (Honest question, I dont know, but it seems POSIX sometime do things like that.) , Personally I think of gnulib more as an application, since its , intended to be dropped directly into application code. So I prefer , FOO_H to _FOO_H. But Im not dogmatic about it. Given that my use of gnulib is for libraries, perhaps I should have been arguing for the _FOO_H version, then. O well, I guess it is better to avoid changing existing style. I sense an addition to the gnulib.texi coming up. While writing it, I added a similar discussion about __cplusplus #ifdef. Please modify and improve ...

This article is kindly contributed by Ong Siew Chey from Singapore. Refer to About the Writer at the end of the post. Introduction The greatest advantage human has over all animals is superior brain power. We are able to think in abstract terms and comprehend philosophical and moral concepts. And we are supposed to be…

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