A double-edged sword of immuno-microenvironment in cardiac homeostasis and injury repair

K Sun, Y Li, J Jin - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
The response of immune cells in cardiac injury is divided into three continuous phases:
inflammation, proliferation and maturation. The kinetics of the inflammatory and proliferation …

Organoids: a historical perspective of thinking in three dimensions

M Simian, MJ Bissell - Journal of Cell Biology, 2017 - rupress.org
In the last ten years, there has been a dramatic surge in the number of publications where
single or groups of cells are grown in substrata that have elements of basement membrane …

A comparison of non-integrating reprogramming methods

TM Schlaeger, L Daheron, TR Brickler, S Entwisle… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs,,) are useful in disease modeling and drug
discovery, and they promise to provide a new generation of cell-based therapeutics. To date …

[HTML][HTML] Facilitators and impediments of the pluripotency reprogramming factors' initial engagement with the genome

A Soufi, G Donahue, KS Zaret - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The ectopic expression of transcription factors can reprogram cell fate, yet it is unknown how
the initial binding of factors to the genome relates functionally to the binding seen in the …

Probing sporadic and familial Alzheimer's disease using induced pluripotent stem cells

MA Israel, SH Yuan, C Bardy, SM Reyna, Y Mu… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Our understanding of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis is currently limited by difficulties in
obtaining live neurons from patients and the inability to model the sporadic form of the …

Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells to cardiomyocytes: a methods overview

CL Mummery, J Zhang, ES Ng, DA Elliott… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Since human embryonic stem cells were first differentiated to beating cardiomyocytes a
decade ago, interest in their potential applications has increased exponentially. This has …

[HTML][HTML] Dishing out mini-brains: Current progress and future prospects in brain organoid research

I Kelava, MA Lancaster - Developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The ability to model human brain development in vitro represents an important step in our
study of developmental processes and neurological disorders. Protocols that utilize human …

Creation of bladder assembloids mimicking tissue regeneration and cancer

E Kim, S Choi, B Kang, JH Kong, Y Kim, WH Yoon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Current organoid models are limited by their inability to mimic mature organ architecture and
associated tissue microenvironments,. Here we create multilayer bladder 'assembloids' by …

Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells from urine samples

T Zhou, C Benda, S Dunzinger, Y Huang, JC Ho… - Nature protocols, 2012 - nature.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been generated with varied efficiencies
from multiple tissues. Yet, acquiring donor cells is, in most instances, an invasive procedure …

Large intergenic non-coding RNA-RoR modulates reprogramming of human induced pluripotent stem cells

S Loewer, MN Cabili, M Guttman, YH Loh, K Thomas… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The conversion of lineage-committed cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by
reprogramming is accompanied by a global remodeling of the epigenome,,,,, resulting in …