Generating a non-integrating human induced pluripotent stem cell bank from urine-derived cells.
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SUBMITTER: Xue Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3734275 | biostudies-literature | 2013
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Generating a non-integrating human induced pluripotent stem cell bank from urine-derived cells.
Xue Yanting Y Cai Xiujuan X Wang Linli L Liao Baojian B Zhang Hui H Shan Yongli Y Chen Qianyu Q Zhou Tiancheng T Li Xirui X Hou Jundi J Chen Shubin S Luo Rongping R Qin Dajiang D Pei Duanqing D Pan Guangjin G
PloS one 20130805 8
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) holds great potential for applications in regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and disease modeling. We describe here a practical method to generate human iPS cells from urine-derived cells (UCs) under feeder-free, virus-free, serum-free condition and without oncogene c-MYC. We showed that this approach could be applied in a large population with different genetic backgrounds. UCs are easily accessible and exhibit high reprogramming efficiency, offering ...[more]
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