Isolation of Epiblast Stem Cells from Preimplantation Mouse Embryos

Overview

Journal Cell Stem Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2011 Mar 3

PMID 21362571

Citations 76

Authors

Fadi J Najm

Josh G Chenoweth

Philip D Anderson

Joseph H Nadeau

Raymond W Redline

Ronald D G McKay

Paul J Tesar

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Abstract

Pluripotent stem cells provide a platform to interrogate control elements that function to generate all cell types of the body. Despite their utility for modeling development and disease, the relationship of mouse and human pluripotent stem cell states to one another remains largely undefined. We have shown that mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs) are distinct, pluripotent states isolated from pre- and post-implantation embryos respectively. Human ES cells are different than mouse ES cells and share defining features with EpiSCs, yet are derived from pre-implantation human embryos. Here we show that EpiSCs can be routinely derived from pre-implantation mouse embryos. The preimplantation-derived EpiSCs exhibit molecular features and functional properties consistent with bona fide EpiSCs. These results provide a simple method for isolating EpiSCs and offer direct insight into the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms that regulate the acquisition of distinct pluripotent states.

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