Mice generated from tetraploid complementation competent iPS cells show similar developmental features as those from ES cells but are prone to tumorigenesis

M Tong, Z Lv, L Liu, H Zhu, QY Zheng, XY Zhao, W Li… - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Ever since the creation of induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) from adult somatic cells by the
ectopic expression of defined transcription factors [1, 2], whether iPS cells are equivalent to …

Viable mice produced from three-factor induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells through tetraploid complementation

L Kang, T Wu, Y Tao, Y Yuan, J He, Y Zhang, T Luo… - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Ectopic expression of four transcription factors, including Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc, in
differentiated fibroblast cells could reset the cell fate of fibroblast cells to pluripotent state [1] …

Production of mice using iPS cells and tetraploid complementation

XY Zhao, Z Lv, W Li, F Zeng, Q Zhou - Nature Protocols, 2010 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are considered to be an attractive alternative to
embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and may provide great potential for clinical applications in …

Pluripotency of induced pluripotent stem cells

L Kang, S Gao - Journal of animal science and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Recent studies have demonstrated that differentiated somatic cells from various mammalian
species can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by the ectopic …

[PDF][PDF] iPS cells can support full-term development of tetraploid blastocyst-complemented embryos

L Kang, J Wang, Y Zhang, Z Kou, S Gao - Cell stem cell, 2009 - cell.com
To our knowledge, for the first time, we demonstrate that induced pluripotent stem cells
(iPSCs) can autonomously generate full-term mice via tetraploid blastocysts …

iPS cells generated without c-Myc have active Dlk1-Dio3 region and are capable of producing full-term mice through tetraploid complementation

W Li, X Zhao, H Wan, Y Zhang, L Liu, Z Lv, XJ Wang… - Cell research, 2011 - nature.com
Due to its ethical acceptability and technical feasibility, production of induced pluripotent
stem (iPS) cells from differentiated somatic cells by exogenous expression of several key …

[HTML][HTML] New advances in iPS cell research do not obviate the need for human embryonic stem cells

I Hyun, K Hochedlinger, R Jaenisch, S Yamanaka - Cell Stem Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Recently three different studies were published demonstrating that mouse fibroblast (skin)
cells can be directly reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells (Okita et al., 2007; …

Viable fertile mice generated from fully pluripotent iPS cells derived from adult somatic cells

X Zhao, W Li, Z Lv, L Liu, M Tong, T Hai, J Hao… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2010 - Springer
Previous studies demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells could produce
viable mice through tetraploid complementation, which was thought to be the most stringent …

Proliferation rate of somatic cells affects reprogramming efficiency

Y Xu, X Wei, M Wang, R Zhang, Y Fu, M Xing… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
The discovery of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells provides not only new approaches for
cell replacement therapy, but also new ways for drug screening. However, the undefined …

Derivation of transgene-free rat induced pluripotent stem cells approximating the quality of embryonic stem cells

S Li, H Lan, H Men, Y Wu, N Li… - Stem cells …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Although a variety of reprogramming strategies have been reported to create transgene-free
induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from differentiated cell sources, a fundamental question …