Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, USA.
Curr Opin Immunol. 2012 Oct;24(5):617-24. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2012.07.001. Epub 2012 Jul 25.
The advent of reprogramming technology has greatly advanced the field of stem cell biology and nurtured our hope to create patient specific renewable stem cell sources. While the number of reports of disease specific induced pluripotent stem cells is continuously rising, the field becomes increasingly more aware that induced pluripotent stem cells are not as similar to embryonic stem cells as initially assumed. Our state of the art understanding of human induced pluripotent stem cells, their capacity, their limitations and their promise as it pertains to the study and treatment of primary immunodeficiencies, is the content of this review.
重编程技术的出现极大地推动了干细胞生物学领域的发展,并激发了我们创造患者特异性可再生干细胞来源的希望。虽然与疾病相关的诱导多能干细胞的报道数量不断增加,但该领域越来越意识到诱导多能干细胞并不像最初假设的那样与胚胎干细胞相似。本文综述了我们对人类诱导多能干细胞的最新认识,包括它们的能力、局限性及其在原发性免疫缺陷研究和治疗中的应用。