Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 149-154.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.01.025

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Research progress and application prospect of induced pluripotent stem cells

Liu Fei-fei, Hou Zong-liu   

  1. Central Laboratory, Yan’an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650051, Yunnan Province, China
  • Revised:2013-10-24 Online:2014-01-01 Published:2014-01-01
  • Contact: Hou Zong-liu, Professor, Central Laboratory, Yan’an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650051, Yunnan Province, China
  • About author:Liu Fei-fei, Studying for master’s degree, Central Laboratory, Yan’an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650051, Yunnan Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the Special Social Development Program of Yunnan Province, No. 2010CA004; International Cooperation Program of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department, No. 2013IA013

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Induced pluripotent stem cells research has become a hot topic nowadays, because it can avoid the immune rejection and ethical issues in stem cell research and have characteristics is similar to the embryonic stem cells.
OBJECTIVE: To review prospect and progress of induced pluripotent stem cells, and to find out some problems about the induced pluripotent stem cells in inducing method, efficiency, safety and application which need to be solved.
METHODS: Kjmed database was searched by the first author using key words of “induced pluripotent stem cells, efficiency, disease model, clinical application” in English to retrieve relevant articles published from January 2003 to June 2013. Literatures addressing induced pluripotent stem cells were included, and the repetitive researches were excluded.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A total of 112 documents were retieved, and finally 32 articles were retained after deleting unrelated and repetitive ones. Induced pluripotent stem cells have very high application value and prospects in the somatic cell transplantation, tissue engineering, drug screening and establishment in vitro of disease models. But this technology is still in the stage of research and exploration, and there are many technical problems that need to be solved.


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: stem cells, embryonic stem cells, efficiency, transcription factors

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