Disease-corrected haematopoietic progenitors from Fanconi anemia induced pluripotent stem cells
The generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells has enabled the derivation of patient-specific pluripotent cells and/nprovided valuable experimental platforms to model human disease. Patient-specific iPS cells are also thought to hold great/ntherapeutic potential, although direct evidence for...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repository: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10230/12426 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/12426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08129 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Medicina regenerativa Cél·lules mare embrionàries |
| Summary: | The generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells has enabled the derivation of patient-specific pluripotent cells and/nprovided valuable experimental platforms to model human disease. Patient-specific iPS cells are also thought to hold great/ntherapeutic potential, although direct evidence for this is still lacking. Here we show that, on correction of the genetic defect,/nsomatic cells from Fanconi anaemia patients can be reprogrammed to pluripotency to generate patient-specific iPS cells. These cell lines appear indistinguishable from human embryonic stem cells and iPS cells from healthy individuals. Most importantly, we show that corrected Fanconi-anaemia-specific iPS cells can give rise to haematopoietic progenitors of the myeloid and erythroid lineages that are phenotypically normal, that is, disease-free. These data offer proof-of-concept that iPS cell technology can be used for the generation of disease-corrected, patient-specific cells with potential value for cell therapy applications. |
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