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Transduction of Oct6 or Oct9 gene concomitant with Myc family gene induced osteoblast-like phenotypic conversion in normal human fibroblasts.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 27 Nov 2015
Mizoshiri N, Kishida T, Yamamoto K, Shirai T, Terauchi R, Tsuchida S, Mori Y, Ejima A, Sato Y, Arai Y, Fujiwara H, Yamamoto T, Kanamura N, Mazda O, Kubo T
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INTRODUCTION: Osteoblasts play essential roles in bone formation and regeneration, while they have low proliferation potential. Recently we established a procedure to directly convert human fibroblasts into osteoblasts (dOBs). Transduction of Runx2 (R), Osterix (X), Oct3/4 (O) and L-myc (L) genes followed by culturing under osteogenic conditions induced normal human fibroblasts to express osteoblast-specific...
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