Progress in the studies on the induction of pluripotent stem cells / 国际生物医学工程杂志

ABSTRACT

The main objective of human tissue engineering is to grow cells in vivo to promote proliferation and differentiation and replace, repair, maintain, or enhance the functions of impaired tissues and organs. Embryonic stem cells are the first selected seed cells in tissue engineering due to their unlimited proliferation capability and the potential to differentiate into different kinds of cells. In this review will give a sketch of recent advances in the preparation of induced pluripotent stem cells, which can differentiate into many other kinds of cells, by applying different transcript factors including Oct3/4, Sox2, c-myc, Klf4, Nanog and LIN28 to somatic ceils via retroviral transduction.