Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cell mass capable of serving as a primitive organ-like structure comprised of a plurality of cell types of somatic origin
-
Application No.: US14788925Application Date: 2015-07-01
-
Publication No.: US10344266B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Shigeyoshi Fujiwara , Jiro Kishimoto , Tsutomu Soma
- Applicant: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2006-176763 20060627
- Main IPC: C12N5/00
- IPC: C12N5/00 ; C12N5/071 ; C12N5/0775

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of producing a cell mass capable of serving as a primitive organ-like structure comprised of a plurality of somatic cell types of somatic origin, comprising: preparing cultures containing the plurality of types of somatic cells; mixing the plurality of types of somatic cell cultures followed by adding a Wnt signal activator to the mixed cell culture; subjecting the culture containing the Wnt signal activator to non-plate contact culturing over a predetermined time period; and replacing the medium of the culture cultured by the non-plate contact culturing with medium not containing Wnt signal activator and further culturing for a predetermined time period; wherein, at least one type of the plurality of somatic cells is maintained in an undifferentiated state.
Public/Granted literature
Information query