哺乳动物心脏中的双潜心肌和光滑肌细胞前体的发育起源

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Derivation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells

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Sean M Wu¹, Yuko Fujiwara, Susan M Cibulsky

¹Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Cell

|November 25, 2006

概括

研究人员在发育中的哺乳动物心脏中发现了一种常见的前体细胞. 这种Nkx2.5(+) 细胞可以分化为心肌细胞,导电系统细胞和光滑肌细胞,揭示了对心血管系谱规范的新见解.

科学领域:

心血管生物学心血管生物学
发育生物学是发展生物学.
干细胞研究的研究.

背景情况:

了解心脏发生过程中的细胞系特征对于再生医学至关重要.
心脏前体细胞的确切起源和分化潜力仍然不完全定义.

研究的目的:

为了研究心脏特异性Nkx2.5(+) 细胞的分化潜力.
确定哺乳动物心脏中不同心血管血统的共同前体.

主要方法:

从发育中的小鼠胚胎和体外分化的胚胎干细胞中分离和表征Nkx2.5(+) 细胞.
对心肌细胞,导电系统细胞和光滑肌肉细胞的分化能力的评估.
使用c-kit (((+) Nkx2.5 (((+) 单细胞分离和体内/体内分化试验进行克隆分析.

主要成果:

Nkx2.5(+) 细胞的一个子集表达了c-kit,并表现出双电位分化能力.
单个c-kit (((+) Nkx2.5 (((+) 细胞可以在体外和体内产生心肌细胞和光滑肌细胞.
Nkx2.5(+) 细胞表现出分化为心肌细胞,导电系统细胞和光滑肌细胞.

结论:

哺乳动物心脏中存在一种常见的心血管前体,能够产生多种细胞类型.
这种c-kit ((+) Nkx2.5 ((+) 细胞群体代表了心血管血统的关键祖先.
这些发现提升了我们对心脏发育的理解,并为心脏再生提供了潜在的目标.

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