NCT00953693

Patient Specific Induced Pluripotency Stem Cells (PSiPS)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 15 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Royan Institute · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like state by being forced to express genes and factors important for maintaining the defining properties of embryonic stem cells. The reprogramming of adult cells into embryonic stem (ES) cells enables the generation of patient-specific stem cells and thus has enormous potential for the treatment and analysis of degenerative diseases. In this project the investigators are going to induce pluripotent stem cells from cell cultures from skin biopsies of patients. The iPS cells will be developed for modeling diseases and drug discovery as well as basic research.

Detailed description

iPS cells are typically derived by transfection of certain stem cell-associated genes into non-pluripotent cells, such as adult fibroblasts. Transfection is typically achieved through viral vectors, such as retroviruses. Transfected genes include the master transcriptional regulators Oct-3/4 (Pouf51) and Sox2, although to enhance the efficiency of induction some other genes e.g. Klf4, c-Myc. In this study after separation the fibroblasts from patient's skin biopsy, the cells are transfected with 4 Yamanaka factors (human Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc) after 3-4 weeks, transfected cells are isolated through morphological selection.

Conditions

• Hepatic Disorders
• Eye Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Biopsy	Skin biopsy

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-01-01
• Completion: 2010-07-01
• First posted: 2009-08-06
• Last updated: 2012-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran