Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2015, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (10): 1619-1623.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2015.10.026

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Induced pluripotent stem cell therapy: transplant rejection and safety

Wu Peng-fei, Zhou Guang-ji   

  1. Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong Province, China
  • Online:2015-03-05 Published:2015-03-05
  • Contact: Zhou Guang-ji, M.D., Professor, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong Province, China
  • About author:Wu Peng-fei, Studying for master’s degree, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30772769

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Induced pluripotent stem cells have been a hotspot in regenerative medicine research since it was discovered. The clinical application of induced pluripotent stem cells is excessively focused on, but the safety issue is almost ignored.

OBJECTIVE: By summarizing the application of induced pluripotent stem cells in animal experiments to analyze the safety problems of induced pluripotent stem cells and their possible reasons in order to lay a foundation for further study and clinical application of induced pluripotent stem cells.
METHODS: PubMed database was retrieved by the first author for articles related to the safety of induced pluripotent stem cells published from 2006 to 2014 using the keywords of “induced pluripotent stem cells, safety, immune, immunogenicity, tumorigenicity, cancer, epigenomic, transplantation, generation, reprogramming,genomic, mutation” in English. Related full texts were got from Cell Press and Nature Databases. Finally, 28 articles were chosen in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Safety problems of induced pluripotent stem cells are attracting more and more attentions. Immunogenicity, potential tumorigenicity and epigenetic variation are major risks for the clinical applications of induced pluripotent stem cells. Safety issues of induced pluripotent stem cells mainly come from the reprogramming process. The “integrating genetic manipulation” may lead to a greater risk of tumorigenicity than non-integrating operations. Epigenetic variations emerge in the reprogramming, which are mostly relative to “epigenetic memory” of reprogrammed cells.

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Key words: Stem Cells, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Transplantation, Safety

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