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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Embryonic stem (ES) cells"”.
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Regulation of gene expression and cell state in embryonic stem cells
Cell state is established and maintained through the combined action of transcription factors, chromatin regulators and signaling pathways, which all contribute to a transcriptional regulatory circuitry. Embryonic stem (ES) cells are capable of self-renewal and can give rise to nearly all …
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Efficient In Vitro Development of Photoreceptors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
… in the human retina is among the most common causes of blindness. Replacing these damaged photoreceptors may help to restore vision. Repairing the damaged retina relies on the insertion of new, healthy cells. Embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are two possible …
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Reprogramming cellular fate using defined factors
Embryonic stem (ES) cells have a vast therapeutic potential given their pluripotency, or the ability to differentiate into tissues from all three germ layers. One of the ultimate goals of regenerative medicine is to isolate pluripotent stem cells from patients. Nuclear reprogramming offers the …
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Mapping the core regulatory circuitry of embryonic stem cells
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are of tremendous biological interest because they have the capacity, termed pluripotency, to generate any cell type of the adult organism. Our lab is interested in understanding the genetic circuitry that governs pluripotency. For my thesis work I have contributed to a …
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Dissecting the transcriptional regulatory network of embryonic stem cells
The process by which a single fertilized egg develops into a human being with over 200 cell types, each with a distinct gene expression pattern controlling its cellular state, is poorly understood. An understanding of the transcriptional regulatory networks that establish and maintain gene …
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Programming and reprogramming cellular identity
… yet each cell type enacts a distinct gene expression program to allow for highly specialized functions. These tightly controlled programs are the results of transcriptional regulation, by transcription factors and chromatin regulators, as well as post-transcriptional regulation, mediated in …
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The role of imprinting in embryonic development and tumorigenesis
Imprinting is a mammalian adaptation that results in the mono-allelic expression of a subset of genes depending on their parental origin. It is believed that DNA methylation marks are responsible for maintaining imprinted gene expression patterns. The 'parental conflict' hypothesis was proposed to …
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The Role of Dax-1 in Regulating Pluripotency in mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
<p>The orphan receptor Dax-1 is highly expressed in pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells and shows a correlative reduction in expression as these cells differentiate. While it is known that Dax-1 is expressed in pluripotent mouse ES cells, the precise function of Dax-1 in these cells is not as …
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Dynamic histone modifications at the promoters of Hox genes in embryonic stem cells
… associated with changing levels of gene expression, but their role in determining, or possibly predicting, patterns of expression is uncertain. Here, the link between histone modifications and Hoxb gene expression in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells was explored. Levels of the “active” …
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HECAT5 regulates cell proliferation via interaction with M3R in cell type-specific manner
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are derived from pluripotent inner cell mass of the early mammalian embryo. Their self-renewal and pluripotency make them attractive sources for stem cell therapies. For ethical and practical reasons, ES cells have a major threat limiting in potential therapeutic …
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Roles for chromatin regulators during differentiation of embryonic stem cells
Mammalian development involves the process by which a single fertilized egg develops into an adult with over 200 specialized cell types, each with a distinct gene expression pattern controlling its cellular state. As cells differentiate into specialized cell types, changes in the gene expression …
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Scalable production of cellular aggregates for the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac muscle
Embryonic stem (ES) cells have the potential to treat many diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. However, large numbers of desired differentiated or progenitor cells must be generated from ES cells for many regenerative medicine applications to be successful. Current …
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O-linked N-acetylglucosamine in differentiation and gene expression of mouse and human pluripotent stem cells
… Nacetylglucosamine to serine or threonine residues (O-GlcNAcylation) of proteins has only recently been characterized and its overall role in cell signalling remains elusive to date. Recent studies suggest an essential role of O-GlcNAcylation on the viability and pluripotency of mouse and …
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Gene expression and imprinting in mice cloned by nuclear transfer
… derived by nuclear transfer (NT) die during gestation, and those surviving to birth frequently show increased birth weights, enlarged dysfunctional placentas, and neonatal mortality associated with respiratory distress and metabolic abnormalities. These abnormalities may reflect inadequate …
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Modeling transcriptomic dynamics and epigenomic conservation
Gene regulatory networks control gene expression during various biological processes, including two sets with similarity: differentiation processes of embryonic stem (ES) cells and embryo development processes. This thesis work centers on two aspects in analyses of such gene expression patterns: …
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Dicer deletion and short RNA expression analysis in mouse embryonic stem cells
RNA interference (RNAi) manages many aspects of eukaryotic gene expression through sequence-specific interactions with RNA. Short RNAs, 20-30 nucleotides in length, guide the various effector proteins of RNAi to silence fully or partially complementary targets. The sequencing of endogenously …
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Fundamental differentiation and growth characterization of murine embryonic stem cells in varied culture conditions
Although embryonic stem (ES) cells and their pluripotent capability have been elucidated for decades, little study has been done on obtaining the pluripotency profile of ES cells in the incipient stages of differentiation. In this research, an ES cell line with transfected green fluorescent protein …
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Epigenetic Regulation of Nuclear Hormone Receptor DAX-1
… tissue in mammals. Dax-1 is also expressed in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and is required to maintain pluripotency. Duplication of the X-chromosome in the region containing the NR0B1 gene results in sex reversal, and mutations in NR0B1 cause adrenal hypoplasia congenita. DAX-1 has …
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Establishment of the epigenetic landscape in mammalian embryonic stem cells
… phenomena has the potential to enrich both stem cell biology and therapeutics, as well as offer insight into various pathologies. While the enzymatic machinery responsible for these transitions is well known, it is their localization to specific genomic regions that controls cell fate, and …
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Development of embryonic stem cells expressing endogenous levels of a fluorescent protein fused to the telomere binding protein TRF1
Telomeres are the repetitive DNA sequence and associated proteins found at the ends of linear chromosomes. They have a role in biological processes including meiosis and aging as well as implications in a number of genomic instability disorders and cancers. Telomeres maintain genomic stability by …
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