TY - JOUR
T1 - Oocytes, embryos and pluripotent stem cells from a biomedical perspective
AU - Hyttel, Poul
AU - Pessôa, Laís Vicari de Figueiredo
AU - Secher, Jan Bojsen Møller
AU - Dittlau, Katarina Stoklund
AU - Freude, Kristine
AU - Hall, Vanessa J.
AU - Fair, Trudee
AU - Assey, Remmy John
AU - Laurincik, Jozef
AU - Callesen, Henrik
AU - Greve, Torben
AU - Stroebech, Lotte Björg
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The veterinary and animal science professions are rapidly developing and their inherent and historical connection to agriculture is challenged by more biomedical and medical directions of research. While some consider this development as a risk of losing identity, it may also be seen as an opportunity for developing further and more sophisticated competences that may ultimately feed back to veterinary and animal science in a synergistic way. The present review describes how agriculture-related studies on bovine in vitro embryo production through studies of putative bovine and porcine embryonic stem cells led the way to more sophisticated studies of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using e.g. gene editing for modeling of neurodegeneration in man. However, instead of being a blind diversion from veterinary and animal science into medicine, these advanced studies of human iPSC-derived neurons build a set of competences that allowed us, in a more competent way, to focus on novel aspects of more veterinary and agricultural relevance in the form of porcine and canine iPSCs. These types of animal stem cells are of biomedical importance for modeling of iPSC-based therapy in man, but in particular the canine iPSCs are also important for understanding and modeling canine diseases, as e.g. canine cognitive dysfunction, for the benefit and therapy of dogs.
AB - The veterinary and animal science professions are rapidly developing and their inherent and historical connection to agriculture is challenged by more biomedical and medical directions of research. While some consider this development as a risk of losing identity, it may also be seen as an opportunity for developing further and more sophisticated competences that may ultimately feed back to veterinary and animal science in a synergistic way. The present review describes how agriculture-related studies on bovine in vitro embryo production through studies of putative bovine and porcine embryonic stem cells led the way to more sophisticated studies of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using e.g. gene editing for modeling of neurodegeneration in man. However, instead of being a blind diversion from veterinary and animal science into medicine, these advanced studies of human iPSC-derived neurons build a set of competences that allowed us, in a more competent way, to focus on novel aspects of more veterinary and agricultural relevance in the form of porcine and canine iPSCs. These types of animal stem cells are of biomedical importance for modeling of iPSC-based therapy in man, but in particular the canine iPSCs are also important for understanding and modeling canine diseases, as e.g. canine cognitive dysfunction, for the benefit and therapy of dogs.
KW - Alzheimer's disease
KW - Dementia
KW - Embryonic stem cells
KW - In vitro fertilization
KW - Induced pluripotent stem cells
U2 - 10.21451/1984-3143-AR2019-0054
DO - 10.21451/1984-3143-AR2019-0054
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32435294
AN - SCOPUS:85071253262
SN - 1806-9614
VL - 16
SP - 508
EP - 523
JO - Animal Reproduction
JF - Animal Reproduction
IS - 3
ER -
