Lamba Patient-Specific Stem Cells

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-40216-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

One of the biggest challenges faced in medical research had been to create accurate and relevant models of human disease. A number of good animal models have been developed to understand the pathophysiology. However, not all of them reflect the human disorder, a classic case being Usher’s syndrome where the mutant mice do not have the same visual and auditory defects that patients face. There are others which have been even more difficult to model due to the multi-factorial nature of the condition and due to lack of discovery of a single causative gene such as age-related macular degeneration or Alzheimer’s syndrome. Thus a more relevant and accurate system will allow us to make better predictions on relevant therapeutic approaches.

The discovery of human pluripotent stem cells in 1998 followed by the technological advances to reprogram somatic cells to pluripotent-stem cell-like cells in 2006 has completely revolutionized the way we can now think about modelling human development and disease. This now coupled with genome editing technologies such as TALENS and CRISPRs have now set us up to develop in vitro models both 2D as well as 3D organoids, which can more precisely reflect the disease in the patients. These combinatorial technologies are already providing us with better tools and therapeutics in drug discovery or gene therapy.

This book summarizes both the technological advances in the field of generation of patient specific lines as well as various gene editing approaches followed by its applicability in various systems. The book will serve as a reference for the current state of the field as it:

-Provides a comprehensive overview of the status of the field of patients derived induced pluripotent stem cells.

-Describes the use of cardiac cells as a main featured component within the book.

-Examines drug toxicity analysis as a working example throughout the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamba, Deepak A.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Human induced pluripotent stem cells: derivation

Uthra Rajamani, Lindsay Lenaeus, Loren Ornelas, Dhruv Sareen

- Human induced pluripotent stem cells: banking, and characterization

Uthra Rajamani, Lindsay Lenaeus, Loren Ornelas, Dhruv Sareen

- Genetic and Epigenetic considerations in iPSC technology

Yoshiaki Tanaka, In-Hyun Park

- CRISPR-based genome engineering in human stem cells

Thelma Garcia and Deepak Lamba

- Stem cells for Parkinson’s disease

Deepak A Lamba

- Huntington’s Disease and Stem Cells

Karen Ring, Robert O’Brien and Lisa M. Ellerby

- Applications of Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Therapy and Modeling of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases

Suranjit Mukherjee, Shuibing Chen

- The Role of iPSCs in Disease Modeling: Gaucher Disease and Related Disorders

Daniel Borger, Elma Aflaki, Ellen Sidransky

- Role of induced pluripotent stem cells in urological disease modeling and repair

Mohammad Moad, Emma L Curry, Craig N Robson, Rakesh Heer

- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells – a Research Tool and a Potential Therapy for RPE-associated Blinding Eye Diseases

Ruchi Sharma, Balendu Shekhar Jha, Kapil Bharti

- Modeling Neuro-Retinal Development and Disease in Stem Cells

Joseph Reynolds and Deepak A. Lamba

Über Autor(innen)

Deepak A. Lamba is an Assistant Professor at the Buck Research Institute on Aging, Novato, USA, an Affiliate Assistant Professor, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and an Adjunct Faculty at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, USA.