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ArticleStem cells and development2014

A modified method for implantation of pluripotent stem cells under the rodent kidney capsule.

Fuli Zhu, Bin Sun, Yan Wen, Zhe Wang, Renee Reijo Pera, Bertha Chen

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Article in Stem cells and development, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Fuli Zhu1 Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford, California.
Bin Sun
Yan Wen
Zhe Wang
Renee Reijo Pera
Bertha Chen
Stanford University · USGuangzhou Medical University · CNPeking University · CNSouthern Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Teratoma formation, the standard in vivo pluripotency assay, is also frequently used as a tumorigenicity assay. A common concern in therapeutic stem cell applications is the tumorigenicity potential of a small number of cell impurities in the final product. Estimation of this small number is hampered by the inaccurate methodology of the tumorigenicity assay. Hence, a protocol for tumorigenicity assay that can deliver a defined number of cells, without error introduced by leakage or migration of cells is needed. In this study, we tested our modified transplantation method that allows for transplant of small numbers of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) under the kidney capsule with minimal cell leakage. A glass capillary with a finely shaped tip and an attached mouth pipette was used to inject PSCs into the rodent kidney capsule. H9 embryonic and induced PSCs were tagged with Fluc and green fluorescence protein reporter genes and divided in different cell doses for transplantation. Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) on the day of surgery showed that the cell signal was confined to the kidney and signal intensity correlated with increasing transplant cell numbers. The overall cell leakage rate was 17% and the rodent survival rate was 96%. Teratoma formation was observed in rodents transplanted with cell numbers between 1 × 10(5)-2 × 10(6). We conclude that this modified procedure for transplanting PSCs under the kidney capsule allows for transplantation of a defined number of PSCs with significant reduction of error associated with cell leakage from the transplant site.

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AnimalsCarcinogenesisCells, CulturedCell TrackingFemaleGreen Fluorescent ProteinsKidneyMice, SCIDPluripotent Stem CellsStem Cell TransplantationTeratomaenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent Proteins

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PMID24800694
PMCPMC4142776
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