Publications by Grantees

The following list of publications describe research carried out with CIRM funding. Click on the publication title for a brief summary of the research and for more information about the CIRM grants that contributed to the research.

Title Year Journal
Umbilical cord blood transplantation for thalassemia major. 2010 Hematol Oncol Clin North Am
Upregulation of Oct-4 isoforms in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells from patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. 2010 Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol
Utility of PDL progenitors for in vivo tissue regeneration: a report of 3 cases. 2010 Oral Dis
Variations of X chromosome inactivation occur in early passages of female human embryonic stem cells. 2010 PLoS One
Vascular remodeling of the vitelline artery initiates extravascular emergence of hematopoietic clusters. 2010 Blood
VEGF signaling has distinct spatiotemporal roles during heart valve development. 2010 Dev Biol
Viral packaging and transduction of adult hippocampal neural progenitors. 2010 Methods Mol Biol
Visual activity regulates neural progenitor cells in developing xenopus CNS through musashi1. 2010 Neuron
Vitamin C promotes widespread yet specific DNA demethylation of the epigenome in human embryonic stem cells. 2010 Stem Cells
Wavefront aberration measurements and corrections through thick tissue using fluorescent microsphere reference beacons. 2010 Opt Express
Well-defined, size-tunable, multifunctional micelles for efficient paclitaxel delivery for cancer treatment. 2010 Bioconjug Chem
Wnt proteins are self-renewal factors for mammary stem cells and promote their long-term expansion in culture. 2010 Cell Stem Cell
Wnt proteins promote bone regeneration. 2010 Sci Transl Med
Wnts influence the timing and efficiency of oligodendrocyte precursor cell generation in the telencephalon. 2010 J Neurosci
A central role for the small GTPase Rac1 in hippocampal plasticity and spatial learning and memory. 2009 Mol Cell Neurosci
A conserved mechanism for control of human and mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation by shp2 tyrosine phosphatase. 2009 PLoS One
A histone demethylase is necessary for regeneration in zebrafish. 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
A home away from home: challenges and opportunities in engineering in vitro muscle satellite cell niches. 2009 Differentiation
A New Feeder-Free Technique to Expand Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells 2009 Open Stem Cell Journal
A Nurr1/CoREST pathway in microglia and astrocytes protects dopaminergic neurons from inflammation-induced death. 2009 Cell
A regulatory pathway involving Notch1/beta-catenin/Isl1 determines cardiac progenitor cell fate. 2009 Nat Cell Biol
A role for von Hippel-Lindau protein in pancreatic beta-cell function. 2009 Diabetes
A self-renewal program controls the expansion of genetically unstable cancer stem cells in pluripotent stem cell-derived tumors. 2009 Stem Cells
A small molecule primes embryonic stem cells for differentiation. 2009 Cell Stem Cell
A systematic search for DNA methyltransferase polymorphisms reveals a rare DNMT3L variant associated with subtelomeric hypomethylation. 2009 Hum Mol Genet
A targeted neuroglial reporter line generated by homologous recombination in human embryonic stem cells. 2009 Stem Cells
A variable torque motor compatible with magnetic resonance imaging. 2009 Rev Sci Instrum
Abeta-specific Th2 cells provide cognitive and pathological benefits to Alzheimer’s mice without infiltrating the CNS. 2009 Neurobiol Dis
Accelerated closure of skin wounds in mice deficient in the homeobox gene Msx2. 2009 Wound Repair Regen
Accumulation of a differentiation regulator specifies transit amplifying division number in an adult stem cell lineage. 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Acting locally and globally: Myc’s ever-expanding roles on chromatin. 2009 Cancer Res
Adult human beta-cell neogenesis? 2009 Diabetes Obes Metab
Adult mice generated from induced pluripotent stem cells. 2009 Nature
Ago2 immunoprecipitation identifies predicted microRNAs in human embryonic stem cells and neural precursors. 2009 PLoS One
Alternative splicing in the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into cardiac precursors. 2009 PLoS Comput Biol
An integrated microfluidic culture device for quantitative analysis of human embryonic stem cells. 2009 Lab Chip
An RNA code for the FOX2 splicing regulator revealed by mapping RNA-protein interactions in stem cells. 2009 Nat Struct Mol Biol
Analyses of regenerative wave patterns in adult hair follicle populations reveal macro-environmental regulation of stem cell activity. 2009 Int J Dev Biol
Anatomic demarcation of cells: genes to patterns. 2009 Science
Antioxidant or neurotrophic factor treatment preserves function in a mouse model of neovascularization-associated oxidative stress. 2009 J Clin Invest
Bendamustine therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 2009 Expert Opin Pharmacother
Bi-stable neural state switches. 2009 Nat Neurosci
Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in fibrin augment angiogenesis in the chronically infarcted myocardium. 2009 Regen Med
Carcinoma-produced factors activate myeloid cells through TLR2 to stimulate metastasis. 2009 Nature
Cardiac fibroblasts regulate myocardial proliferation through beta1 integrin signaling. 2009 Dev Cell
CD47 is upregulated on circulating hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia cells to avoid phagocytosis. 2009 Cell
Cdc37 regulates Ryk signaling by stabilizing the cleaved Ryk intracellular domain. 2009 J Biol Chem
Cell cycle regulation by MicroRNAs in embryonic stem cells. 2009 Cancer Res
Cell kinase activity assay based on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. 2009 Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
Characterization of a potent non-cytotoxic shRNA directed to the HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5. 2009 Genet Vaccines Ther