INDUCED HEPATIC STEM CELL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND APPLICATIONS OF THE CELL
申请人:National Cancer Center Research Institute
公开号:EP2532741A1
公开(公告)日:2012-12-12
The present invention relates to an induced hepatic stem cell defined as follows, a process for production thereof, and applications of the cell, which are useful in safety tests, toxicity tests, metabolism tests, drug interaction tests, antiviral activity tests, screening tests for pharmaceuticals such as hyperlipidemic therapeutics, hypertension therapeutics, low-molecular weight compound medicaments, and antibody medicaments, screening for targets in drug discovery, preparation of animal models, production of hepatocyte-produced proteins, and in regenerative medicine. The induced hepatic stem cell of the present invention is characterized by at least satisfying the following requirements (1)-(3): (1) it expresses at least 15 genes as selected from the group of the genes which are marker genes for an embryonic stem cell; (2) it has properties of a hepatocyte; and (3) it can be subjected to expansion culture or passage culture for at least 3 days.
本发明涉及一种定义如下的诱导肝干细胞、其生产工艺以及该细胞的应用,该细胞可用于安全性试验、毒性试验、代谢试验、药物相互作用试验、抗病毒活性试验、高血脂治疗药物、高血压治疗药物、低分子量化合物药物和抗体药物等药物的筛选试验、药物发现中靶点的筛选、动物模型的制备、肝细胞生产蛋白的生产以及再生医学中。本发明的诱导肝干细胞的特征是至少满足以下要求(1)-(3):(1)表达至少 15 个基因,这些基因选自胚胎干细胞标记基因组;(2)具有肝细胞的特性;(3)可进行至少 3 天的扩增培养或传代培养。