人类原始的生殖细胞类细胞,从重置前体中指定的细胞在人类后肠有机体中发展
João Pedro Alves-Lopes1,2,3, Frederick C K Wong4,5,6, M Azim Surani7,8
1Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. joao.pedro.lopes@ki.se.
Nature protocols
|February 1, 2024
概括
这项研究引入了一种新的共同培养系统,使用人类后肠器官来开发人类原始生殖细胞样细胞 (hPGCLC). 这种方法提供了一个更相关的体外模型,用于研究早期生殖细胞发育和生殖细胞生成.
科学领域:
- 发展生物学 发展生物学
- 干细胞生物学 干细胞生物学
- 生殖生物学 生殖生物学
背景情况:
- 人类原始生殖细胞 (hPGCs) 对于繁殖至关重要,在特异化后不久产生并迁移到原始性腺.
- 了解hPGC发育对于解决不孕症和生殖细胞瘤至关重要.
- 现有的hPGC开发模式往往依赖于不那么相关的共同培养系统.
研究的目的:
- 建立一个规范和进步的人类原始生殖细胞样细胞 (hPGCLCs) 的试验室协议.
- 开发一个与发展相关的共同培养模型,使用人类后肠有机体.
- 为体外生殖细胞生成研究提供实用方法.
主要方法:
- 人类胚胎干细胞 (hESCs) 用于指定重置hPGCLCs (rhPGCLCs) 和后肠器官.
- rhPGCLC和后肠有机体被共同培养了25天.
- 该协议需要大约1.5个月和基本的hESC文化技能.
主要成果:
- 共同培养系统成功支持了rhPGCLCs的进展,模仿了体内发育时间.
- 与使用小鼠胚胎淋巴组织的先前方法相比,该系统提供了更相关的模型.
- 该协议可用于研究hPGC迁移缺陷.
结论:
- rhPGCLC-hindgut有机体共同培养系统为研究早期人类生殖细胞发育提供了一个实用且与发展相关的模型.
- 这种系统有助于研究体外生殖因子以及不孕不育和生殖细胞瘤的潜在原因.
- 该协议可供具有基本hESC专业知识的研究人员访问.
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