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Generation of skeletal muscle stem/progenitor cells from murine induced pluripotent stem cells

  • Yuta Mizuno
  • , Hsi Chang
  • , Katsutsugu Umeda
  • , Akira Niwa
  • , Toru Iwasa
  • , Tomonari Awaya
  • , So Ichiro Fukada
  • , Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • , Shinya Yamanaka
  • , Tatsutoshi Nakahata
  • , Toshio Heike

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Abstract

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are a type of pluripotent stem cell generated from reprogrammed somatic cells, are expected to have potential for patient-oriented disease investigation, drug screening, toxicity tests, and transplantation therapies. Here, we demonstrated that murine iPS cells have the potential to develop in vitro into skeletal muscle stem/progenitor cells, which are almost equivalent to murine embryonic stem cells. Cells with strong in vitro myogenic potential effectively were enriched by fluorescence-activated cell sorting using the anti-satellite cell antibody SM/C-2.6. Furthermore, on transplantation into mdx mice, SM/C-2.6+ cells exerted sustained myogenic lineage differentiation in injured muscles, while providing long-lived muscle stem cell support. Our data suggest that iPS cells have the potential to be used in clinical treatment of muscular dystrophies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2245-2253
Number of pages9
JournalFASEB Journal
Volume24
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • High engraftment efficiency
  • Long-term engraftment
  • No teratoma formation
  • Pax7

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Biotechnology

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