Examples of in vitro transdifferentiation by lineage-instructive approach

A list^[1][2][3][4] of examples of transdifferentiation:

• Mouse fibroblasts, chondroblasts, and pigmented retinal epithelial cells → myoblasts (MyoD)^[5]
• Fibroblasts → melanocytes (MITF)^[6]
• Glial cells → neurons (Pax6)^[7]
• Erythorid-megakaryocytic cells → monocytic cells (SPI1/PU.1)^[8]
• B-cell progenitors → functional macrophages (C/EBPα)^[9]
• Rat hepatic cell line → insulin-producing cells (Pdx1 and Ngn3)^[10]
• Fibroblasts → macrophage-like cells (PU.1 and C/EBPα or C/EBPβ)^[11]
• Postnatal cardiac and dermal fibroblasts → cardiomyocytes (Gata4, myocyte enhancer factor 2C, and Tbx5)^[12]
• Fibroblasts → heptaocyte-like cells (Gata4, Hnf1alpha, and Foxa3)^[13] or (Hnf4alpha and Foxa1, Foxa2 or Foxa3)^[14]
• Fibroblasts → neurons (Ascl1, Pou3f2/Brn2, and Myt1l)^[15][16]
• Human fibroblasts → neurons (Ascl1,Brn2, Mytl1, and NeuroD)^[17] or (miR-9/9-124, Neurod2, Ascl1, and Myt1l)^[18]
• Human fibroblasts → functional neurons (miR-124, Myt1l and Brn2)^[19]
• Fibroblasts → dopaminergic neurons (Ascl1, Brn2, Myt1l, Lmx1a, and FoxA2)^[20] or (Ascl1, Nurr1, and Lmx1a) ^[21]
• Astrocytes → dopaminergic neurons (Ascl1, Lmx1b, Nurr1)^[22]

See also

• Transdifferentiation
• Induced stem cells

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