Category Archives: Mesenchymal Stem Cells

A mixture of three cell types self-assembles into a liver bud that can be seen with the naked eye. In work that will raise hope that organs could be repaired or even grown from scratch using a patients own tissue as the raw material, Japanese researchers have created functioning liver tissue from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice. The researchers found that a mixture of human liver precursor cells and two other cell types can spontaneously form three-dimensional structures dubbed liver buds. In the mice, these liver buds formed functional connections with natural blood vessels and perform some liver-specific functions such as breaking down drugs in the bloodstream. Its possible the technique will work with other organ types, including the pancreas, kidney, or lungs, lead author Takanori Takebe, a scientist at Yokohama City University in Japan, said Tuesday at a press conference, aided by a translator. The study, published in Nature on Wednesday, is the first demonstration that a rudimentary human organ can be produced using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, says Takebe. These iPS cells are made by converting mature cells such as skin cells into a state from which they can develop into many other cell … Continue reading →

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TOKYO: In a world first, Japanese scientists have grown human liver tissue from stem cells, paving way for alleviating the critical shortage of donor organs. Takanori Takebe and Hideki Taniguchi at Yokohama City University showed the generation of vascularised and functional human liver from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) by transplantation of in vitro grown liver buds (rudimentary liver). The study demonstrates a proof-of-concept that organ bud transplantation offers an alternative approach for treating organ failure by generating a 3D and vascularised organ. During the early liver organogenesis, liver progenitor cells delaminate from the foregut endodermal sheet and form a three-dimensional liver bud (LB), a condensed tissue mass that is soon vascularised. Such large-scale morphogenetic changes depend on the orchestration of signals between liver, mesenchymal and endothelial progenitors prior to blood perfusion. "These observations led us to hypothesise that three-dimensional (3D) liver bud formation can be mimicked in vitro by culturing hepatic endoderm cells with endothelial and mesenchymal lineages," researchers said "Here, we found that, although cells were plated on 2D conditions, hiPSC-derived liver progenitos organised into macroscopically visible 3D liver bud (hiPSC-LBs, or "rudimentary liver") by cultivating with human endothelial cells and human mesenchymal cells, presumably mimicking the … Continue reading →

Brenda Goodman HealthDay Reporter Posted: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- Japanese scientists report they've turned a cocktail of stem cells into the world's first functioning livers. The tiny livers were created in the lab and transplanted into mice, where they grew and began to perform the same functions as human-sized livers, including metabolizing drugs and making liver-specific proteins. Though very basic -- the experimental livers don't have all the features of full-grown organs -- it's believed to be the first time scientists have grown a three-dimensional organ in the lab using only cells. Previously, scientists have made solid organs using stem cells that are seeded onto some kind of scaffold, either a donor organ that's been washed of all its original cells or some kind of artificial material. But one expert said this latest approach takes the concept one step further. "This is a different strategy to create tissues and organs," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, in Winston-Salem, N.C. "The work is very important because it allows you to study how organs are created and how they give rise to more functional complex systems," Atala … Continue reading →

The researchers' liver buds growing in culture prior to transplant into an animal. Takanori Takebe One of the things that got people excited about stem cells was the prospect that they could be used to generate entire tissues or organs, ready to replace what's been damaged by injury or disease. But there's a big gap between the embryonic stem cells we can generate and an adult organ. If you put the stem cells into an adult body, there's no way to control how they develop. But if you control their development outside of an organism, you generally wind up with a bunch of cells, mostly of a single type, sitting in a plate. That's a far cry from the complex, integrated, three-dimensional structure of an actual organ. Now, a team of scientists in Japan has decided to split the difference. Using stem cells from various sources, they put together the three types of tissues that normally work together to give rise to the liver in embryos. And when those were implanted into a mouse, they did what they would do in the embryo: integrate together and grow into a functional liver. In the embryo, the liver forms from a combination … Continue reading →

A mixture of three cell types self-assembles into a liver bud that can be seen with the naked eye. In work that will raise hope that organs could be repaired or even grown from scratch using a patients own tissue as the raw material, Japanese researchers have created functioning liver tissue from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice. The researchers found that a mixture of human liver precursor cells and two other cell types can spontaneously form three-dimensional structures dubbed liver buds. In the mice, these liver buds formed functional connections with natural blood vessels and perform some liver-specific functions such as breaking down drugs in the bloodstream. Its possible the technique will work with other organ types, including the pancreas, kidney, or lungs, lead author Takanori Takebe, a scientist at Yokohama City University in Japan, said Tuesday at a press conference, aided by a translator. The study, published in Nature on Wednesday, is the first demonstration that a rudimentary human organ can be produced using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, says Takebe. These iPS cells are made by converting mature cells such as skin cells into a state from which they can develop into many other cell … Continue reading →

A mixture of three cell types self-assembles into a liver bud that can be seen with the naked eye. In work that will raise hope that organs could be repaired or even grown from scratch using a patients own tissue as the raw material, Japanese researchers have created functioning liver tissue from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice. The researchers found that a mixture of human liver precursor cells and two other cell types can spontaneously form three-dimensional structures dubbed liver buds. In the mice, these liver buds formed functional connections with natural blood vessels and perform some liver-specific functions such as breaking down drugs in the bloodstream. Its possible the technique will work with other organ types, including the pancreas, kidney, or lungs, lead author Takanori Takebe, a scientist at Yokohama City University in Japan, said Tuesday at a press conference, aided by a translator. The study, published in Nature on Wednesday, is the first demonstration that a rudimentary human organ can be produced using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, says Takebe. These iPS cells are made by converting mature cells such as skin cells into a state from which they can develop into many other cell … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Therapy Becomes More Widely Available | Video ABC News Beverly Hills Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Raj appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to share the breatkthrough stem cell treatment that's now available to weeken... By: AHPRvideo … Continue reading →

Punto por Punto: Phil Medical Association, nagbabala sa iligal na pagsasagawa ng stem cell therapy MANILA - Punto por Punto host Anthony Taberna discusses the possible dangers of illegal stem cell therapy. By: TheABSCBNNews … Continue reading →

Foreign doctors behind illegal stem cell therapy The Philippine Medical Association wants to go after foreign doctors who are reportedly conducting unauthorized stem cell procedures in the country. By: TheABSCBNNews … Continue reading →