The present invention provides a method for inducing adenohypophysis or precursor tissue thereof in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells. The method includes culturing an aggregate of human pluripotent stem cells in suspension in a medium containing a bone morphogenetic protein signal transduction pathway activating substance and a substance acting on the Shh signal pathway to obtain a human cell aggregate containing a hypothalamus neuroepithelial tissue and a surface ectoderm, and further culturing the obtained human cell aggregate containing the hypothalamus neuroepithelial tissue and the surface ectoderm in suspension in a medium containing a bone morphogenetic protein signal transduction pathway activating substance and a substance acting on the Shh signal pathway to induce formation of hypophysial placode and/or Rathke's pouch in the surface ectoderm, thus obtaining a human cell aggregate containing 1) hypothalamus neuroepithelial tissue, and 2) hypophysial placode and/or Rathke's pouch.
本发明提供了一种从人多能干细胞体外诱导腺嗜析出或其前体组织的方法。该方法包括在含有骨形态发生蛋白
信号转导通路激活物质和作用于Shh信号通路的物质的
培养基中培养悬浮的人多能干细胞聚集体,以获得含有
下丘脑神经上皮组织和表面外胚层的人细胞聚集体、在含有骨形态发生蛋白
信号转导通路激活物质和作用于 Shh 信号通路的物质的
培养基中,进一步悬浮培养所获得的包含
下丘脑神经上皮组织和表面外胚层的人体细胞聚集体,以诱导表面外胚层形成下生理学胎盘和/或 Rathke's pouch,从而获得包含 1)
下丘脑神经上皮组织和 2) 下生理学胎盘和/或 Rathke's pouch 的人体细胞聚集体。