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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 396, Issue 4, Pages 933-938Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.05.026
Keywords
Human embryonic stem cells; Human induced pluripotent stem cells; Soluble fibronectin; ROCK inhibitor
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- Division of Human Stem Cell Technology and Laboratory for Pluripotent Cell Studies, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
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The research of human pluripotent stem cells is important for providing the molecular basis for their future application to regenerative medicine. To date, they are usually cultured on feeder cells and passaged by partial dissociation with either enzymatic or mechanical methods, which are problematic for the research using them in the convenience and reproducibility. Here we established a new culture system that allows handling as easily as culturing feeder-free mouse ES cells. This newly developed culture system is based on the combinatorial use of ROCK inhibitor and soluble fibronectin, which enables us to expand human pluripotent stem cells from single cell dissociation on gelatin-coated surface without any feeder cells. In this new culture system, these human pluripotent stem cells can stably grow, even if in clonal density with keeping expression of stem cell markers. These cells also have abilities to differentiate into three germ layers in vivo and in vitro. Furthermore, no chromosomal abnormalities are found even after sequential passage. Therefore this system will dramatically simplify genetic engineering of these human pluripotent stem cells or defining process of their signal pathway. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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