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ReviewStem cells (Dayton, Ohio)2014

Concise review: Generation of neurons from somatic cells of healthy individuals and neurological patients through induced pluripotency or direct conversion.

Iván Velasco, Patricia Salazar, Alessandra Giorgetti, Verónica Ramos-Mejía, Julio Castaño, Damià Romero-Moya, Pablo Menendez

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Review in Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Organs to Cells and Cells to Organoids: The Evolution ofFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2019
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  11. Modeling simple repeat expansion diseases with iPSC technology.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2016
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  13. In Vitro Models for Neurogenesis.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Iván VelascoInstituto de Fisiología Celular-Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F, México; Centro GENYO, Granada, Spain.
Patricia Salazar
Alessandra Giorgetti
Verónica Ramos-Mejía
Julio Castaño
Damià Romero-Moya
Pablo Menendez

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Access to healthy or diseased human neural tissue is a daunting task and represents a barrier for advancing our understanding about the cellular, genetic, and molecular mechanisms underlying neurogenesis and neurodegeneration. Reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency by transient expression of transcription factors was achieved a few years ago. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from both healthy individuals and patients suffering from debilitating, life-threatening neurological diseases have been differentiated into several specific neuronal subtypes. An alternative emerging approach is the direct conversion of somatic cells (i.e., fibroblasts, blood cells, or glial cells) into neuron-like cells. However, to what extent neuronal direct conversion of diseased somatic cells can be achieved remains an open question. Optimization of current expansion and differentiation approaches is highly demanded to increase the differentiation efficiency of specific phenotypes of functional neurons from iPSCs or through somatic cell direct conversion. The realization of the full potential of iPSCs relies on the ability to precisely modify specific genome sequences. Genome editing technologies including zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases, and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/CAS9 RNA-guided nucleases have progressed very fast over the last years. The combination of genome-editing strategies and patient-specific iPSC biology will offer a unique platform for in vitro generation of diseased and corrected neural derivatives for personalized therapies, disease modeling and drug screening.

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Genetic EngineeringAnimalsCell DifferentiationCellular ReprogrammingFibroblastsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsNeuronsDirect conversionGenome editingInduced neuronsInduced pluripotent stem cellsNeural differentiationNeurodegenerative diseases

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PMID24989459
PMCPMC4282532

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