April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Induction of corneal endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells through derived neural crest like cells.
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Yoshinori Nakai
    Ophthalmology, Kyuoto Prefuctural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Morio Ueno
    Ophthalmology, Kyuoto Prefuctural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Hiroshi Tanaka
    Ophthalmology, Kyuoto Prefuctural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Makoto Fukuta
    Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Makoto Ikeya
    Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Junya Toguchida
    Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Shigeru Kinoshita
    Ophthalmology, Kyuoto Prefuctural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Yoshinori Nakai, None; Morio Ueno, Santen Pharmaceutical Co (P), Senju Pharmaceutical Co (P); Hiroshi Tanaka, None; Makoto Fukuta, None; Makoto Ikeya, None; Junya Toguchida, None; Shigeru Kinoshita, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 526. doi:
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      Yoshinori Nakai, Morio Ueno, Hiroshi Tanaka, Makoto Fukuta, Makoto Ikeya, Junya Toguchida, Shigeru Kinoshita; Induction of corneal endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells through derived neural crest like cells.. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):526.

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Abstract

Purpose: Corneal endothelium, corneal keratocytes and trabecular meshwork cells, which construct anterior segment of the eye, are developed from neural crest cells. We inducted corneal endothelium like cells used neural crest cells derived from human pluripotent cells, embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. This study involves possibility of producing cell sources for regenerative medicine with high efficiency.

Methods: ES/iPS cells are isolated from the feeder cells and they are cultured on Matrigel in serum-free medium. The proportion of CD271(p75NTR) high positive cells are sorted by using flow cytometory, as neural crest cells. Then they cultured with corneal endothelium conditioned medium for one week. We analyzed them by use of immunostaining and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).

Results: Neural crest cells derived from human ES/iPS cells proliferate in the conditioned medium and they changed their morphology epithelial like cells, immunostaining testing showed Zo-1 positive cells. The induced cells express gene markers for the most abundant genes of corneal endothelium, Na/K ATPase alpah1 with PCR.

Conclusions: This study provides a highly practical system for inducing corneal endothelium from human ES/iPS cells through derived neural crest cells.

Keywords: 481 cornea: endothelium • 500 differentiation • 721 stem cells  
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