Journal
MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages 395-404Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23478
Keywords
canine; chemically‐ defined; feeder‐ free; induced pluripotent stem cells
Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP18K19273, JP18H02349, JP19J22851]
- Japan Science Society, Sasakawa Scientific Research Grants [2020-4079]
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The traditional methods of using ciPSCs in veterinary medicine have limitations such as cell surface alteration, immune rejection risk, and difficulty in expansion. However, a recent study demonstrated that specific culture methods can maintain the pluripotency of ciPSCs and enable stable expansion.
Canine induced pluripotent stem cells (ciPSCs) provide a platform for regenerative veterinary medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery. However, in the conventional method, ciPSCs are maintained using chemically-undefined media containing unknown animal components under on-murine embryonic fibroblast feeder conditions, which were reported to modify cell surface of iPSCs and increases the risk of immune rejection when the cells are transplanted into patients. Moreover, in the conventional method, ciPSCs are mechanically passaged, which requires much time and effort. Therefore, the large-scale expansion of ciPSCs is difficult, which should be resolved for using ciPSCs in clinical application and research. Here, it was shown that StemFit (R) AK02N and iMatrix-511 could maintain the pluripotency of ciPSCs using conventional culture method. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the feeder-free and chemically-defined ciPSC culture systems using StemFit (R) AK02N and iMatrix-511 could stably maintain and allow the easy expansion of ciPSCs generated using N2B27 and StemFit (R) AK02N, without causing karyotype abnormalities. ciPSCs expressed several pluripotency markers and formed teratomas, including cells derived from three germ layers.
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