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Feeder- and Serum-free Establishment and Expansion of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Journal Int J Dev Biol
Date 2009 Oct 31
PMID 19876814
Citations 44
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Abstract

Although human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) hold great promise as a source of differentiated cells for vast therapeutic implications, many obstacles still need to be surmounted before this can become a reality. One obstacle, a robust feeder- and serum-free system to generate and expand hiPSCs in culture is still unavailable. Here, for the first time, we describe a novel establishment and maintenance culture technique that uses human dermal fibroblasts to generate hiPSCs by introducing four factors, Klf4, Oct4, Sox2, and c-Myc under serum- and feeder-independent conditions. We have used a serum replacement product, conditioned medium (CM), or feeder-free medium (FFM) supplemented with high elevated basic-fibroblast growth factor in the absence or presence of Matrigel. Our FFM system in the presence of Matrigel enhanced the efficiency of alkaline phosphatase-positive colonies at a frequency at least 10-fold greater than the conventional method on feeder cells. The established hiPSCs are similar to human embryonic stem cells in many aspects including morphology, passaging, surface and pluripotency markers, normal karyotype, gene expression, ultrastructure, and in vitro differentiation. Such hiPSCs could be useful particularly in the context of in vitro disease modeling, pharmaceutical screening and in cellular replacement therapies once the safety issues have been overcome.

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