Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (45): 7358-7363.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.45.026

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Research progress of induced pluripotent stem cells and its bottleneck

Ma Xun, Qin Jie, Xu Yu-ming   

  1. Third Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China
  • Online:2014-11-05 Published:2014-11-05
  • Contact: Xu Yu-ming, Professor, Chief physician, Third Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China
  • About author:Ma Xun, Third Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China
  • Supported by:

     the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81070920, 81471158, 81301007

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: With the development of the research, induced pluripotent stem cells are applied to the build of disease model, drug screening, regenerative medicine, and many other research fields, and have made significant achievements, especially in the study of nervous system diseases.

 
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells and to raise problems and prospects based on the latest research in this field.
METHODS: The first author searched the PubMed database for articles about the induced pluripotent stem cells, including reviews, clinical research and basic research, published from January 2006 to September 2014. The keywords were “iPS, induced pluripotent stem cell”, and finally 60 articles were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Induced pluripotent stem cell research continues to make breakthrough from its discovery by Yamanaka’s team in 2006 to winning Nobel Prize in 2012. Induced pluripotent stem cell research has broad prospects in the disease model construction, drug screening and regenerative medicine. Currently, problems such as reprogramming methods, cell stability, and clinical transformation still need to be solved, and further researches are necessary.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:干细胞;骨髓干细胞;造血干细胞;脂肪干细胞;肿瘤干细胞;胚胎干细胞;脐带脐血干细胞;干细胞诱导;干细胞分化;组织工程


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Key words:  induced pluripotent stem cells, nervous system diseases, disease models

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