Induced pluripotent stem cells: applications in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery

VK Singh, M Kalsan, N Kumar, A Saini… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent progresses in the field of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) have opened up
many gateways for the research in therapeutics. iPSCs are the cells which are …

Astrocyte differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells: new tools for neurological disorder research

A Chandrasekaran, HX Avci, M Leist… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes have a central role in brain development and function, and so have gained
increasing attention over the past two decades. Consequently, our knowledge about their …

Establishment of in vitro FUS-associated familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis model using human induced pluripotent stem cells

N Ichiyanagi, K Fujimori, M Yano, C Ishihara-Fujisaki… - Stem cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset motor neuron disorder. Although its
neuropathology is well understood, the cellular and molecular mechanisms are yet to be …

Modeling human neurological and neurodegenerative diseases: from induced pluripotent stem cells to neuronal differentiation and its applications in neurotrauma

H Bahmad, O Hadadeh, F Chamaa… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
With the help of several inducing factors, somatic cells can be reprogrammed to become
induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) lines. The success is in obtaining iPSCs almost …

STIM2 mediates excessive store-operated calcium entry in patient-specific iPSC-derived neurons modeling a juvenile form of huntington's disease

VA Vigont, DA Grekhnev, OS Lebedeva… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a severe autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disorder
caused by a mutation within a gene, encoding huntingtin protein. Here we have used the …

Gene expression profiling for human iPS-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients reveals a strong association between mitochondrial functions and …

CJ Alves, R Dariolli, FM Jorge, MR Monteiro… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads to
widespread motor neuron death, general palsy and respiratory failure. The most prevalent …

Induced pluripotent stem cells from ALS patients for disease modeling

JP Richard, NJ Maragakis - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
The ability to reprogram adult somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells that can differentiate
into all three germ layers of the developing human has fundamentally changed the …

Non-viral methods for generating integration-free, induced pluripotent stem cells

XY Deng, H Wang, T Wang, XT Fang… - Current stem cell …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were created from mouse fibroblasts by induced
expression of Yamanaka factors, Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc. This technique has quickly …

Emerging understanding of the genotype–phenotype relationship in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SA Goutman, KS Chen, X Paez-Colasante… - Handbook of clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, noncurable neurodegenerative
disorder of the upper and lower motor neurons causing weakness and death within a few …

Recent advances of induced pluripotent stem cells application in neurodegenerative diseases

N Amin, X Tan, Q Ren, N Zhu, BOA Botchway… - Progress in Neuro …, 2019 - Elsevier
Stem cell is defined by its ability to self-renewal and generates differentiated functional cell
types, which are derived from the embryo and various sources of postnatal animal. These …