Three lines of integration free human PBMC-derived iPSCs (1210B2, 1231A3, and 1201C1), which were established from ePBMCs® from the Cellular Technology Limited (OH, USA) at Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA: Kyoto, Japan) by an integration-free method [51 (link)], were used. The 1210B2 and 1231A3 iPSCs were cultured with a feeder-free protocol [33 (link)], and the 1201C1 iPSCs were cultured with an on-feeder protocol that uses SNL feeder cells. They were induced into NSPCs as previously described [52 (link), 53 (link)] with two slight modifications. Briefly, in the first protocol, the NSPCs were induced directly from embryoid bodies (EBs) by a protocol that consists only of a floating culture. In the second protocol, the EBs were adhered to laminin-coated culture dishes on day 7, and they subsequently formed neural rosettes (NRs), which were picked on day 14. We refer to NSPCs induced directly from EBs as EB-NSPCs, and those induced from the NR phase as NR-NSPCs. The NSPCs were expanded using the neurosphere culture technique [23 (link), 54 (link)].
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