Treatment with retinoic acid and lens epithelial cell-conditioned medium in vitro directed the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells towards corneal endothelial cell-like cells

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 351-360

  Chen, Ping ^a,b   Chen, Jun Zhao ^a   Shao, Chun Yi ^a   Li, Chuan Yin ^a   Zhang, Yi Dan ^a   Lu, Wen Juan ^a   Fu, Yao ^a   Gu, Ping ^a   Fan, Xianqun ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology Ninth People’s Hospital ^*  (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Conditioned medium; Corneal endothelium cell; Differentiation; Embryonic stem cell; Induced pluripotent stem cell; Retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CELL MARKER; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; FIBRONECTIN; GELATIN; LAMININ; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN P75; PROTEIN ZO1; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LENS EPITHELIUM; MOUSE; MRNA EXPRESSION ASSAY; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; STEM CELL CULTURE;

EID: 84918840782     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.2103     Document Type: Article

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