Katsunori Sasaki Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Proteomics, Radiation, Leukemia
Department of Histology and Embryology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
Katsunori Sasaki is currently associated with the Graduate School of Engineering at the Kyoto University in Japan. Katsunori Sasaki's international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Sawako Sakai, Daihachiro Tomotsune, Kanji Hirashima, Sakiko Takizawa, Tadayuki Yokoyama, Fengming Yue, Rika Tani, Ken Matsumoto and Katsunori Sasaki
Estradiol (E2) is one of the sex steroid hormones, whose various well-known functions include control of the female reproductive system, causing breast cancers, and inhibiting arterial sclerosis. In this study to investigate how E2 affected cell differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), we used different methods to culture hiPSCs, the undifferentiated state, longterm culture without passages (natural differentiation), embryoid bodies (EBs), and accelerated differentiation by activin, focusing on marker gene expression, including Brachyury, hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF) 3β, estrogen receptor α, and other markers. When iPSCs began to differentiate by responding to E2, Brachyury expression decreased regardless of the amount of E2, ... view moreĀ»