Primate embryonic stem cells
First Claim
1. A purified preparation of human embryonic stem cells which (i) is capable of proliferation in an in vitro culture for over one year, (ii) maintains a karyotype in which all the chromosomes characteristic of the human species are present and not noticeably altered through prolonged culture, (iii) maintains the potential to differentiate to derivatives of endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm tissues throughout the culture, and (iv) are inhibited from differentiation when cultured on a fibroblast feeder layer.
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Abstract
A purified preparation of primate embryonic stem cells is disclosed. This preparation is characterized by the following cell surface markers: SSEA-1 (−); SSEA-4 (+); TRA-1-60 (+); TRA-1-81 (+); and alkaline phosphatase (+). In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the cells of the preparation are human embryonic stem cells, have normal karyotypes, and continue to proliferate in an undifferentiated state after continuous culture for eleven months. The embryonic stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to form trophoblast and to differentiate into all tissues derived from all three embryonic germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). A method for isolating a primate embryonic stem cell line is also disclosed.
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- 1. A purified preparation of human embryonic stem cells which (i) is capable of proliferation in an in vitro culture for over one year, (ii) maintains a karyotype in which all the chromosomes characteristic of the human species are present and not noticeably altered through prolonged culture, (iii) maintains the potential to differentiate to derivatives of endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm tissues throughout the culture, and (iv) are inhibited from differentiation when cultured on a fibroblast feeder layer.
- 3. A purified preparation of human embryonic stem cells wherein the cells are essentially negative for the SSEA-1 marker, positive for the SSEA-4 marker, express alkaline phosphatase activity, are pluripotent, and have karyotypes which includes the presence of all of the chromosomes characteristic of the human species and in which none of the chromosomes are noticeably altered.
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9. A method of isolating a human embryonic stem cell line, comprising the steps of:
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(a) isolating a human blastocyst;
(b) isolating cells from the inner cell mass of the blastocyte of (a);
(c) plating the inner cell mass cells on embryonic fibroblasts, wherein inner cell mass-derived cell masses are formed;
(d) dissociating the mass into dissociated cells;
(e) replating the dissociated cells on embryonic feeder cells;
(f) selecting colonies with compact morphologies and cells with high nucleus to cytoplasm ratios and prominent nucleoli; and
(g) culturing the cells of the selected colonies. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. A cell line developed by the method of step 9.
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