20 results about "Ectoderm" patented technology

The invention discloses a method for generating haploid sperm-like cells through in-vitro differentiation of pluripotent stem cells and application of the haploid sperm-like cells. Human pluripotent stem cells are firstly differentiated into ectoderm-like cells, then the ectoderm-like cells are spontaneously gathered and converted into primordial germ cell-like cells under the induction of ectoderm induction factors, and then the primordial germ cell-like cells and testicular sertoli cells are subjected to mixed culture to form recombinant testicular tissues; the recombinant testis tissue enters meiosis under the induction of nutrition limitation and retinoic acid, then meiosis is completed under the stimulation of meiosis second-stage induction factors such as testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone and pituitary extract, and interaction between primordial germ cell-like cells and testis supporting cells is enhanced by using small molecules SB431542, so that the meiosis of the testis is enhanced. And finally inducing to generate haploid sperm-like cells. According to the invention, a new tool can be provided for researching a molecular mechanism of male reproduction, and an important thought can be provided for research and transformation of asthenospermia, oligospermia, drug screening and the like.

To provide ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells and methods for producing the same.SOLUTION: A method for producing ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells includes the step of selectively collecting, from peripheral blood of a subject administered with a peptide composed of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, either (a) PDGFRα-positive and CD34-positive cells or (b) PDGFRβ-positive and CD34-positive cells.SELECTED DRAWING: None

This invention relates to the field of bioengineering technology, and in particular to a method for simultaneously collecting the inner cell mass and trophectoderm of mammalian blastocysts. The method includes the following steps: (1) after removing the zona pellucida of the blastocyst, the blastocyst is cut into an inner cell mass and a trophectoderm portion, and the cut trophectoderm portion is transferred to a culture medium for collection; (2) the inner cell mass portion obtained in step (1) is sequentially placed in an antibody treatment solution and a complement treatment solution for incubation; (3) the inner cell mass portion treated in step (2) is pipetted to obtain a purified inner cell mass. This method achieves simultaneous and efficient separation of two key cell lines from the blastocyst, fundamentally changing the traditional method's "resource waste" model of only obtaining the inner cell mass while discarding the trophectoderm, and providing more comprehensive experimental materials for embryonic development, placental biology, and stem cell research.

This invention discloses a method for predicting the outcome of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) based on static embryo images, used to distinguish between biochemical pregnancy and clinical pregnancy. It belongs to the field of medical artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology and is applicable to single embryo transfer (SET) and dual embryo transfer (DET) scenarios. The method includes: acquiring a static image of at least one embryo to be transferred; preprocessing and standardizing the embryo image, and then inputting it into a feature extraction model based on a convolutional neural network. The model uses DenseNet-169 as the backbone network and combines it with a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) for multi-scale feature fusion. When the input is a dual embryo image, a Trophectoderm–Inner Cell Attention (TEIC-Attn) attention module is introduced to adaptively weight and fuse the features of the two embryos to characterize the contribution of different embryos to the final transfer outcome. When the input is a single embryo image, the prediction is completed based on the corresponding embryo features. The model ultimately outputs a probability prediction result of whether the IVF treatment outcome is a biochemical pregnancy or a clinical pregnancy. Furthermore, this invention combines a gradient-based class activation mapping method to generate interpretable visual heatmaps, highlighting key morphological regions closely related to embryo transfer outcomes, such as the inner cell mass and trophectoderm, thereby providing clinicians and patients with intuitive and reliable decision-making support. This invention enables unified prediction and interpretation of single and double embryo transfer outcomes without relying on time-series data, improving the accuracy and interpretability of in-vitro fertilization treatment decisions and demonstrating promising clinical application prospects.

The application discloses a culture solution for indirectly inducing human induced pluripotent stem cells into mesenchymal stem cells, which is composed of a neuroectoderm induction culture solution, a mesenchymal stem cell differentiation culture solution and a mesenchymal stem cell maintenance culture solution. The neuroectoderm induction culture solution is composed of a Neurobasal culture medium, a DMEM / F12 culture medium, an N2 additive, a B27 additive, a GSK3 inhibitor and a TGF-beta inhibitor. The application further discloses a method for indirectly inducing human induced pluripotent stem cells into mesenchymal stem cells, which comprises the following steps: taking the induced pluripotent stem cells, culturing the induced pluripotent stem cells in the neuroectoderm induction culture solution for 6 days, then culturing the induced pluripotent stem cells in the mesenchymal stem cell differentiation culture solution for 7 days, and then culturing the induced pluripotent stem cells in the mesenchymal stem cell maintenance culture solution for 3-5 generations. The method can direct the induced pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into mesenchymal stem cells in a short time, and greatly shortens the culture time.

Tissue-specific progenitor cells representing the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm lineages are generated from pluripotent sources. Progenitor cell generation is accomplished by contacting pluripotent stem cells with tissue-specific exosomes, microRNAs, proteins, and peptides, obtained by stressing the tissue under in vitro conditions. In vitro-generated tissue organoids are used as a source of "differentiation factors" for generating individualized progenitor cells. For example, to generate lung progenitor cells, allogeneic stem cells are implanted into decellularized cadaveric lung tissue to form lung structures, which are then exposed to various cellular stressors and conditioned media to differentiate the pluripotent stem cells into progenitor cells. Extracellular matrix can be obtained from decellularized structures seeded with regenerating cells and used to generate organoids, which are then subjected to stress to produce differentiation factors.

The application belongs to the field of stem cell biology and relates to a culture method of a 3D nerve immune organoid containing microglia cells, which comprises the following steps: S1, inducing induced pluripotent stem cells in ectoderm direction and mesoderm direction respectively to obtain nerve-like embryoid bodies and yolk sac-like embryoid bodies; S2, culturing the nerve-like embryoid bodies to make them differentiate into nerves to obtain nerve ring structures, re-digesting the nerve ring structures to obtain nerve progenitor cell single cells, and culturing the yolk sac-like embryoid bodies to make them generate macrophage progenitor cells; and S3, fusing the nerve progenitor cell single cells and the macrophage progenitor cells and continuing to culture to form the 3D nerve immune organoid containing microglia cells. The brain-like organoid of the application can realize the following functions: exploring the control of microglia cells on the proportion of progenitor cells in the development stage, the change of phagocytosis, the control on the number of mature neurons, the influence on cell proliferation and apoptosis, and simultaneously accepting external stimulation and making corresponding functional stress changes.

The invention provides a construction method of an embryo-like model, which comprises the following steps: culturing primitive state stem cells in vitro or injecting the primitive state stem cells into an immunodeficient animal body for differentiation to obtain the embryo-like model. According to the method, in the process of preparing the embryo-like model, cell factors and small molecular pathway interference factors do not need to be added, gene editing is not needed, only a single starting cell type is adopted, and the method has the advantages of being simple and high in repeatability, facilitates large-scale preparation and application, and has wide application prospects. And the prepared embryo-like model has all embryo external cell lineages and all embryo internal cell lineages except for trophoderm, and can simulate the development process from an implanted embryo of a Carbonate-resistant group 3 stage to a Carbonate-resistant group 9 stage nerve embryo, so that the embryo-like model can be used for preparing various progenitor cell lineages, modeling diseases, screening drugs and carrying out scientific research.

The invention discloses an induction method for directionally differentiating hESC-melanocytes based on a neural crest lineage, and belongs to the technical field of cell engineering and cytobiology. According to the induction method, a complex differentiation process of embryonic stem cells-ectoderm-neural ectoderm-neural crest cells is abandoned, and the neural crest cells are directly obtained from embryonic stem cells, so that the differentiation process is simplified; the differentiation efficiency and controllability of the neural crest cells are remarkably improved, the obtained melanocytes have higher tyrosinase activity and melanin synthesis capacity, and a new way is provided for treating leucoderma by adopting a melanocyte transplantation method.

Provided herein are compositions of anorectal transition zone stem cells, to treat endodermal, ectodermal or mesodermal disease. Also provided are cellular compositions of the anorectal transition zone stem cells, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

The inventors discovered that ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells circulating in peripheral blood that are induced by necrotic tissue damage contribute to the regeneration of damaged tissue. On the basis of this discovery, provided are ectodermal mesenchymal stem cells, a method for producing the same, and a screening method for a substance having pluripotent stem cell inductive activity, the screening method using cells induced by necrotic tissue damage in peripheral blood as an index.

The invention belongs to the field of stem cell biology, and relates to a culture method of a 3D neural immune organoid containing microglial cells, which comprises the following steps: S1, respectively inducing induced pluripotent stem cells in an ectodermal direction and a mesodermal direction to obtain a neural embryoid and a yolk sac embryoid; s2, culturing the neural embryoid to perform neural differentiation to obtain a neural garland structure, and re-digesting the neural garland structure to obtain a neural progenitor cell single cell; culturing the yolk sac embryoid to enable the yolk sac embryoid to generate macrophage progenitor cells; and S3, fusing the neural progenitor cell single cell and the macrophage progenitor cell, and continuously culturing to form the 3D neural immune organoid containing the microglial cells. The brain-like organ provided by the invention has the functions of exploring the control of microglial cells on the progenitor cell proportion, the change of phagocytic function, the control on the number of mature neurons and the influence on cell proliferation and apoptosis in the development stage, and meanwhile, the brain-like organ can accept external stimulation and make stress change of corresponding functions.

The invention discloses an embryo transplantation outcome prediction method based on single blastocyst image data, belongs to the field of medical artificial intelligence, and is suitable for single blastocyst transplantation. Firstly, a high-resolution embryo image of a patient is obtained. The image resolution is unified by fixing the aspect ratio of an original image and properly cutting and filling. A standard picture enhancement technology is adopted for model training, and adaptability to variable imaging conditions is improved. During prediction, a preprocessed image is input into a model which takes ResNet-50 as a trunk and combines SimCLR comparative learning to perform self-supervised pre-training, the model is used for extracting morphological features of embryos, and the recognition capability of the model for specific tasks is further optimized through supervised fine tuning. The extracted features are averagely pooled and then connected with a newly defined full-connection network, then pregnancy probability is output through a Sigmoid activation function, and finally a prediction result of single blastocyst transplantation is obtained through threshold mapping. Besides, in order to enhance clinical interpretability, gradient weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) is further introduced, and a key region concerned by the model is visualized so as to verify whether the model is judged based on structures with biological significance, such as an internal cell mass and a trophoderm. According to the method, the transplantation outcome can be predicted under the condition of only depending on a single blastocyst image, and the method can be used for assisting clinical embryo selection and decision making.

A construction method and use of a gastruloid stem cell line. Gastruloid stem cells that can be passaged stably are established in this research. The cells maintain the pluripotency of stem cells to a certain extent, exhibit gene and protein expression of cells from three germ layers, endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm, during gastrulation, and have characteristics consistent with those of cells during gastrulation, so that key characteristics of cells during gastrulation can be well reproduced. A three-dimensional gastruloid model that can mimic gastrulation can be constructed in mice or in vitro by using the stem cell line, and key biological events can be partially reproduced, so that key characteristics of post-implantation embryos during gastrulation can be well reproduced. Through this model, an in vitro platform for screening drugs affecting early embryonic development can be established, providing a reference for clinical medication.

To provide induction of neural progenitor cells, oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, and oligodendrocytes by stem cell differentiation using landmark transcription factors.SOLUTION: Novel methods of inducing human iPSC-derived neural progenitors, oligodendrocyte progenitors, oligodendrocytes with unprecedented efficiency and functionality. The core of the present invention is the use of experimentally discovered transcription factors in a previously unknown manner at key differentiation decision points along the pathway from pluripotency to ectoderm to neuroectoderm to NPCs to OPCs to oligodendrocytes.SELECTED DRAWING: None

The present invention relates to methods of characterizing cell-free DNA (cfDNA), detecting cancer, detecting the eradication of cancer, and determining a probability distribution of haplotypes. The methods use the data from genomic sequences from CpG Islands (CGI) methylated in the genome of extraembryonic ectoderm (ExE) to determine a proportion of fully methylated haplotypes in order to characterize the cfDNA sample and detect certain cancers.

The invention discloses an ectodermal mesenchymal stem cell pretreated by Chinese wolfberry fruit oligosaccharide. The ectodermal mesenchymal stem cell is prepared by pretreating a nasal mucosa source cell by Chinese wolfberry fruit oligosaccharide. According to the ectoderm mesenchymal stem cells pretreated by the Chinese wolfberry fruit oligosaccharide, the stress resistance of the stem cells is enhanced through metabolism reprogramming, the body immunity is regulated and controlled through the efficient paracrine effect, especially the macrophage function is remodeled, and therefore sepsis is effectively resisted.

This invention relates to a method for inducing corneal epithelial cells from the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. More specifically, it relates to a method for autonomously differentiating pluripotent stem cells, such as human iPS cells, into ectodermal cell lines in a serum-free culture medium without the use of feeder cells, and then inducing the resulting ocular surface ectodermal cell lines to differentiate into corneal epithelial cells.

The invention provides a craniofacial skeleton organoid controlled by sensory organs and sensory nerves and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of biologication.The preparation method comprises the steps that in a three-dimensional matrix, human pluripotent stem cells are induced through morphogenetic gradient driving to form nerve ectoderm with a nerve tube head-tail axis and a nerve tube back-abdominal axis; the neural ectoderm is respectively differentiated into a neural crest cell flow carrying head-tail axis position information, a visual cranium substrate-like structure carrying head-tail axis position information, an olfactory cranium substrate-like structure carrying head-tail axis position information and a trigeminal nerve cranium substrate-like structure carrying head-tail axis position information; and a craniofacial skeleton organ is formed under mediation of nerve cadherin. The technical problem that in the prior art, a method for forming a craniofacial skeleton organ through induction cannot form a sensory organ and a sensory nerve innervation function is solved.