Functional Recovery by Transplantation of Human iPSC-Derived A2B5 Positive Neural Progenitor Cell After Spinal Cord Injury in Mice.

ABSTRACT: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) hold great potential for patient-specific therapies. Transplantation of hiPSC-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) is a promising reparative strategy for spinal cord injury (SCI), but clinical translation requires efficient differentiation into desired neural lineages and purification before transplantation. Here, differentiated hiPSCs-reprogrammed from human skin fibroblasts using Sendai virus-mediated expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and C-MYC-into neural rosettes expressing SOX1 and PAX6, followed by neuronal precursors (β-tubulin III⁺/NESTIN⁺) and glial precursors (GFAP+/NESTIN+). Both neuronal and glial precursors expressed the A2B5 surface antigen. A2B5+ NPCs, purified by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS),

SUBMITTER: Zheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12469384 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature