Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24182316›Full record

ArticleCellular reprogramming2013

Direct conversion of adipocyte progenitors into functional neurons.

Yuanyuan Yang, Jiao Jiao, Rui Gao, Hui Yao, Xiao-Fang Sun, Shaorong Gao

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Article in Cellular reprogramming, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Yuanyuan Yang1 Key Laboratory for Major Obstetric Diseases of Guangdong Province, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical College , Guangdong, 510150, P.R. China .
Jiao Jiao
Rui Gao
Hui Yao
Xiao-Fang Sun
Shaorong Gao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing · CNBeijing Normal University · CNGuangzhou Medical University · CNMolina Center for Energy and the Environment · USThe Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ectopic expression of a set of transcription factors in somatic cells could reprogram the differentiated cell fate into the pluripotent state, and the resultant so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been proposed as seed cells for cell therapy-based regenerative medicine. However, their tumorigenicity limited the further application of iPSCs clinically. More recently, collected evidence has shown that differentiated somatic cells could be directly converted into other types of somatic cells through overexpression of transcription factors enriched in the targeted cell types. Induced neurons have been recently converted from fibroblasts; however, it remains unknown if other cell types could be used for neuron induction. One easily accessible cell type, adipocyte progenitor cells (APCs), has the advantage of steady proliferation in vitro and lower mortality rate. In the present study, we demonstrated that APCs could also be converted into functional neurons using the three transcriptional factors (Ascl1, Brn2, Myt1l) that could convert fibroblasts into neurons. Moreover, we also demonstrated that vitamin C could elevate the efficiency of conversion of the APCs and fibroblasts into neurons. The converted cells represent another appropriate cell resource for clinical application and disease modeling.

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Cell DifferentiationAdipocytesAdipose Tissue, BrownAnimalsFlow CytometryFluorescent Antibody TechniqueMiceNeuronsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionStem Cells

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PMID24182316
PMCPMC3848438
OpenAlexW2094153108

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