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Title: Derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells from ferret somatic cells.

Authors: Gao, Jinghui; Petraki, Sophia; Sun, Xingshen; Brooks, Leonard A; Lynch, Thomas J; Hsieh, Chih-Lin; Elteriefi, Reem; Lorenzana, Zareeb; Punj, Vasu; Engelhardt, John F; Parekh, Kalpaj R; Ryan, Amy L

Published In Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol, (2020 04 01)

Abstract: Ferrets are an attractive mammalian model for several diseases, especially those affecting the lungs, liver, brain, and kidneys. Many chronic human diseases have been difficult to model in rodents due to differences in size and cellular anatomy. This is particularly the case for the lung, where ferrets provide an attractive mammalian model of both acute and chronic lung diseases, such as influenza, cystic fibrosis, A1A emphysema, and obliterative bronchiolitis, closely recapitulating disease pathogenesis, as it occurs in humans. As such, ferrets have the potential to be a valuable preclinical model for the evaluation of cell-based therapies for lung regeneration and, likely, for other tissues. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a great option for provision of enough autologous cells to make patient-specific cell therapies a reality. Unfortunately, they have not been successfully created from ferrets. In this study, we demonstrate the generation of ferret iPSCs that reflect the primed pluripotent state of human iPSCs. Ferret fetal fibroblasts were reprogrammed and acquired core features of pluripotency, having the capacity for self-renewal, multilineage differentiation, and a high-level expression of the core pluripotency genes and pathways at both the transcriptional and protein level. In conclusion, we have generated ferret pluripotent stem cells that provide an opportunity for advancing our capacity to evaluate autologous cell engraftment in ferrets.

PubMed ID: 32073882 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Animals; Cell Differentiation/physiology; Cells, Cultured; Cellular Reprogramming/physiology; Female; Ferrets/physiology*; Fibroblasts/cytology; Humans; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells/cytology*; Male

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