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In vitro reprogramming of rat bmMSCs into pancreatic endocrine-like cells

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Islet transplantation provides curative treatments to patients with type 1 diabetes, but donor shortage restricts the broad use of this therapy. Thus, generation of alternative transplantable cell sources is intensively investigated worldwide. We previously showed that bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (bmMSCs) can be reprogrammed to pancreatic-like cells through simultaneously forced suppression of Rest/Nrsf (repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor/neuronal restrictive silencing factor) and Shh (sonic hedgehog) and activation of Pdx1 (pancreas and duodenal transcription factor 1). We here aimed to reprogram bmMSCs further along the developmental pathway towards the islet lineages by improving our previous strategy and by overexpression of Ngn3 (neurogenin 3) and NeuroD1 (neurogenic differentiation 1), critical regulators of the development of endocrine pancreas. We showed that compared to the previous protocol, the overexpression of only Pdx1 and Ngn3 reprogrammed bmMSCs into cells with more characteristics of islet endocrine lineages verified with bioinformatic analyses of our RNA-Seq datasets. These analyses indicated 2325 differentially expressed genes including those involved in the pancreas and islet development. We validated with qRT-PCR analysis selective genes identified from the RNA-Seq datasets. Thus, we reprogrammed bmMSCs into islet endocrine-like cells and advanced the endeavor to generate surrogate functional insulin-secreting cells.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB518 103), National Natural Science Foundation of China (81370883), Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (20132104110020), the Doctor Start-up Fund of Liaoning Province (20141168), and Clinical Capability Construction Project for Liaoning Provincial Hospitals (LNCCC-D50-2015). The funding agencies do not have any roles in study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to submit the article for publication. All animals used were approved by the Ethics Review Committee for Animal Experimentation of China Medical University and were obtained from and bred in the university’s Laboratory Animal Center.

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  1. Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology of Ministry of Public Health, China Medical University, No.77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, 110013, China

    Hong-Tu Li, Tao Zhang, Xiao-Yu Liu, Xue-Wen Lin & Xi-Ning Pang

  2. Key Laboratory of Genetics and Reproduction Health of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Liaoning Province Research Institute of Family Planning, Shenyang, 110031, China

    Hong-Tu Li

  3. Islet Cell Development Program, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and Centre for Medical Research, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, WA, Australia

    Fang-Xu Jiang

  4. University of Western Australia, Perth, 6009, Australia

    Fang-Xu Jiang

  5. Department of General Practice, The First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

    Ping Shi

  6. National key laboratory of endocrinology, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

    Zhong-Yan San

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Li, HT., Jiang, FX., Shi, P. et al. In vitro reprogramming of rat bmMSCs into pancreatic endocrine-like cells. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Animal 53, 157–166 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-016-0087-0

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