565. Human Dystrophin Expression in Rag/Mdx Mice Muscles Following the Graft Off Genetically Corrected Dystrophic hiPSCs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have shown self-renewal capacity and can potentially differentiate into all types of cell lineages. They represent an unlimited source of cells for the therapy of degenerative diseases, such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a disease characterized by a rapid degeneration of muscles that starts early in life. Dystrophic hiPSCs have been corrected by our collaborator, Dr. Hotta, by inserting of a single base pair in the exon 45 with Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs) to restore the reading frame of the gene. Our laboratory has developed a two-step procedure to differentiate hiPSCs into myogenic cells. We first used a myogenic culture medium especially developed in the laboratory (called MB-1) to promote the differentiation of hiPSCs into mesenchymal-like precursor cells. We next transduced them with a lentivirus expressing the myogenic transcription factor MyoD under the control of the composite CAG promoter, in order to induce their differentiation into myoblasts. Transduced cells have been grafted in the Tibialis anterior muscle of Rag/mdx mice where they fused with existing muscle fibers. The presence of the human dystrophin protein has been confirmed by immunohistofluorescence in muscles grafted with the genetically corrected cells and in a control graft with myoblasts of a healthy donor. Cell therapy shows great promises for DMD patients since it allows the expression of a normal gene capable of producing a functional dystrophin in muscle fibers and increases the regenerative capacity of the muscle and the muscle strength.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".