Protocols

Pancreatic differentiation

M. Cristina Nostro, Farida Sarangi, Shinichiro Ogawa, Audrey Holtzinger, Barbara Corneo, Xueling Li, Suzanne J. Micallef, In-Hyun Park, Christina Basford, Michael B. Wheeler, George Q. Daley, Andrew G. Elefanty, Edouard G. Stanley, and Gordon Keller

The generation of insulin-producing β-cells from human pluripotent stem cells is dependent on efficient endoderm induction and appropriate patterning and specification of this germ layer to a pancreatic fate. In this study, we elucidated the temporal requirements for TGFβ family members and canonical WNT signaling at these developmental stages and show that the duration of nodal/activin A...

Robust generation of hepatocyte-like cells from human embryonic stem cell populations

C.N. Medine, B. Lucendo-Villarin, W. Zhou, C.C., West, D.C. Hay

Despite progress in modelling human drug toxicity, many compounds fail during clinical trials due to unpredicted side effects. The cost of clinical studies are substantial, therefore it is essential that more predictive toxicology screens are developed and deployed early on in drug development.

Monolayer endoderm differentiation from human ESCs

Cheng X., Ying L., Lu L., Galvao A.M., Mills J.A., Lin H.C., Kotton D.N., Shen S.S., Nostro M.C., Choi J.K., Weiss M.J., French D.L., Gadue P.

When embryonic stem cells are differentiated in the presence of activin A in serum-free conditions, an endoderm progenitor population defined by the coexpression of either Brachyury, Foxa2 and c-Kit, or c-Kit and Cxcr4 is generated. Specification of these progenitors with bone morphogenetic protein-4 in combination...

Protocol for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells toward a hepatocyte fate

Jun Cai, Ann DeLaForest, Joseph Fisher, Amanda Urick, Thomas Wagner, Kirk Twaroski, Max Cayo, Masato Nagaoka, Stephen A Duncan

The directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into hepatocytes could facilitate a rational study of the molecular mechanisms underlying human liver development as well as provide a renewable source of exogenous hepatocytes for drug toxicity testing and cell-based therapeutics.