Use of postmortem human dura mater and scalp for deriving human fibroblast cultures.

Fibroblasts can be collected from deceased individuals, grown in culture, reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and then differentiated into a multitude of cell types, including neurons. Past studies have generated iPSCs from somatic cell biopsies from either animal or human subj...

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Main Authors: Lindsay A Bliss, Malik R Sams, Amy Deep-Soboslay, Renee Ren-Patterson, Andrew E Jaffe, Josh G Chenoweth, Amritha Jaishankar, Joel E Kleinman, Thomas M Hyde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3459947?pdf=render