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Simple Generation of a High Yield Culture of Induced Neurons from Human Adult Skin Fibroblasts

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Authors

Shrigley, S 
Pircs, K 
Barker, RA 
Parmar, M 
Drouin-Ouellet, J 

Abstract

Direct neuronal reprogramming generates neurons to maintain the age of the starting somatic cell. Here, we describe a single vector-based method to generate induced neurons from dermal fibroblasts obtained from adult human donors.

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Neuroscience, Issue 132, Induced neurons, adult human dermal fibroblasts, direct neural reprogramming, human neurons, FACS purification, lentiviral vector

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

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1940-087X
1940-087X

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MYJoVE Corporation
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
European Commission (602278)
We thank Marie Persson Vejgården for technical assistance. The research leading to these results has received funding from the New York Stem Cell Foundation, the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme: FP/2007-2013 Neuro Stem Cell Repair (no. 602278) and ERC Grant Agreement no. 30971, the Swedish Research Council (grant agreement 521-2012-5624, 2016-00873 and 70862601/ Bagadilico), Swedish Parkinson Foundation (Parkinsonfonden), and the Strategic Research Area at Lund University Multipark (multidisciplinary research in Parkinson’s disease). Janelle Drouin-Ouellet is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) fellowship (#358492), and Roger Barker is supported by an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre grant to the University of Cambridge/Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Malin Parmar is a New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator. Shelby Shrigley is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network and Grant Agreement No. 676408.