Islets in the body are never flat: transitioning from two-dimensional (2D) monolayer culture to three-dimensional (3D) spheroid for better efficiency in the generation of …

A Diane, LI Mohammed, HH Al-Siddiqi - Cell Communication and …, 2023 - Springer
Diabetes mellitus (DM), currently affecting more than 537 million people worldwide is a
chronic disease characterized by impaired glucose metabolism resulting from a defect in …

Chemically defined and xenogeneic-free differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into definitive endoderm in 3D culture

U Diekmann, H Wolling, R Dettmer, I Niwolik… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
In vitro differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into definitive endoderm (DE)
represents a key step towards somatic cells of lung, liver and pancreas. For future clinical …

Self-assembled ternary poly (vinyl alcohol)-alginate-gelatin hydrogel with controlled-release nanoparticles for pancreatic differentiation of iPS cells

YC Kuo, IH Lee, R Rajesh - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional scaffold enables the formation of realistic tissue architecture and
promotes physiological responses to activate the differentiation of induced pluripotent cells …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting diabetes/metabolic disease mechanisms using pluripotent stem cells and genome editing tools

AKK Teo, MK Gupta, A Doria, RN Kulkarni - Molecular metabolism, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Diabetes and metabolic syndromes are chronic, devastating diseases with
increasing prevalence. Human pluripotent stem cells are gaining popularity in their usage …

[PDF][PDF] Definitive endoderm differentiation is promoted in suspension cultured human iPS-derived spheroids more than in adherent cells

SG Yabe, J Nishida, S Fukuda, F Takeda, K Nashiro… - Int. J. Dev. Biol, 2019 - ijdb.ehu.eus
Sup. Fig. S2. Growth curve of 4M and 454E2 in definitive endoderm (DE) differentiation.
Adherent or suspension cultured cells were dissociated into single cells using accutase and …

Organ-specific ECM arrays for investigating cell-ECM interactions during stem cell differentiation

SK Goh, W Halfter, T Richardson, S Bertera… - …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Pluripotent stem cells are promising source of cells for tissue engineering, regenerative
medicine and drug discovery applications. The process of stem cell differentiation is …

Optimization of Factor Combinations for Stem Cell Differentiations on a Design-of-Experiment Microfluidic Chip

L Li, D Tan, S Liu, R Jiao, X Yang, F Li, H Wu… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Directed differentiation of stem cells plays a vital role in cell replacement therapy. Many
activators and inhibitors targeting different signaling pathways have been identified to …

Enhanced differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into pancreatic endocrine cells in 3D culture by inhibition of focal adhesion kinase

X Liu, J Qin, M Chang, S Wang, Y Li, X Pei… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Generation of insulin-producing cells from human pluripotent stem cells
(hPSCs) in vitro would be useful for drug discovery and cell therapy in diabetes. Three …

[HTML][HTML] Placenta mesenchymal stem cells differentiation toward neuronal-like cells on nanofibrous scaffold

F Rahimi-Sherbaf, S Nadri, A Rahmani, AD Oskoei - BioImpacts: BI, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Introduction: Transplantation of stem cells with a nanofibrous scaffold is a promising …

Redefining the signaling pathways from pluripotency to pancreas development: In vitro β‐cell differentiation

M Hashemitabar, E Heidari - Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic β‐cells are destroyed by the immune system, in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and are
impaired by glucose insensitivity in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Islet‐cells transplantation is a …