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این خلاصه یک مقاله داغ که همین پریروز، چاپ شده و در مورد تبدیل سلول پوستی به سلول عصبی است. (کاربرد های جدید سلول درمانی به عنوان رویکرد پزشکی آینده)

Directed conversion of mature human cells, as from fibroblasts to neurons, is of potential clinical utility for neurological disease modelling as well as cell therapeutics. Here, we describe the efficient generation of human-induced neuronal (hiN) cells from adult skin fibroblasts of unaffected individuals and Alzheimer’s patients, using virally transduced transcription regulators and extrinsic support factors. hiN cells from unaffected individuals display morphological, electrophysiological, and gene expression profiles that typify glutamatergic forebrain neurons and are competent to integrate functionally into the rodent CNS. hiN cells from familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) patients with presenilin-1 or -2 mutations exhibit altered processing and localization of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and increased production of Ab, relative to the source patient fibroblasts or hiN cells from unaffected individuals. Together, our findings demonstrate directed conversion of human fibroblasts to a neuronal phenotype and reveal celltype-selective pathology in hiN cells derived from FAD patients.


Cell 146, 359–371, August 5, 2011