Stem cell challenges and opportunities.
Hepatocyte-like cells
chimeric mice
colony-forming units in spleen
drug-induced liver injury
extramedullary erythropoiesis
hematopoietic stem cells
hepatic stem cell
human pluripotent stem cells
Journal
Progress in molecular biology and translational science
ISSN: 1878-0814
Titre abrégé: Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101498165
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
medline:
11
9
2023
pubmed:
8
9
2023
entrez:
7
9
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) generated from human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) exhibit hepatocytic properties in vitro; however, their engraftment and functionality in vivo remain unsatisfactory. Despite optimization of differentiation protocols, HLCs did not engraft in a mouse model of liver injury. In contrast, organ-derived hepatocytes reproducibly formed colonies in the liver injury mouse model. As an extension of the phenomenon observed in hematopoietic stem cells giving rise to colonies within the spleen, commonly referred to as "colony-forming units in spleen (CFU-s)", we hypothesize that "colony-forming units in liver (CFU-L)" serves as a reliable indicator of stemness, engraftment, and functionality of hepatocytes. The uniform expression of the randomly inactivated gene in a single colony, as reported by Sugahara et al. 2022, suggests that the colonies generated by isolated hepatocytes likely originate from a single cell. We, therefore, propose that CFU-L can be used to quantify the number of "hepatocytes that engraft and proliferate in vivo" as a quantitative assay for stem cells that utilize colony-forming ability, similar to that observed in hematopoietic stem cells.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37678981
pii: S1877-1173(23)00063-7
doi: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2023.03.004
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
379-395Informations de copyright
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