Publications by authors named "B Kuebler"

mRNA reprogramming is a technology for generating iPSCs with high efficiency and safety. However, it is not suitable for reprogramming non-adherent cells, the primary cell type in blood. An alternative is to obtain adherent cells from blood for this technology.

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Background: Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapies are an interesting new area in the field of regenerative medicine. One of the approaches to decrease the costs of iPSC-derived therapies is the use of allogenic homozygous human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched donors to generate iPSC lines and to build a clinical-grade iPSC bank covering a high percentage of the Spanish population.

Methods: The Spanish Stem Cell Transplantation Registry was screened for cord blood units (CBUs) homozygous for the most common HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-DRB1 haplotypes.

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Tissue-specific cells differentiated from patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are a relevant cellular model to study several diseases. We obtained a hiPSC line from skin fibroblasts of a patient affected by familial atrial fibrillation by nucleofection of non-integrating episomal vectors. The resulting hiPSC line displays a normal karyotype, expresses pluripotency surface markers and pluripotency genes, and differentiates into cells of the 3 germ layers.

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Transthyretin (TTR) amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a life-threatening disease caused by the abnormal production of misfolded TTR protein by liver cells, which is then released systemically. Its amyloid deposition in the heart is linked to cardiac toxicity and progression toward heart failure. A human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line was generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from a patient suffering familial transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy carrying a c.

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Patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are a valuable approach to model cardiovascular diseases. We nucleofected non-integrating episomal vectors in skin fibroblasts of three family members carrying a single nucleotide variant (SNV) in SCN5A, which encodes the cardiac-type sodium channel, and of a related healthy control. The SNV SCN5A_c.

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