Direct Conversion Provides Old Neurons from Aged Donor's Skin.
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Abstract
Modeling human neuronal aging at a cellular level remains challenging. Human neurons are accessible from iPSCs, but during reprogramming age-associated traits of somatic cells get lost. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Mertens et al. (2015) demonstrate that neurons obtained by direct cell conversion retain age-associated transcriptional traits and functional deficits of the donor cell population.
Medical subject headings
- Neurons
- Stem Cells