ArticleNPJ microgravity2022
Enhanced self-renewal of human pluripotent stem cells by simulated microgravity.
Article in NPJ microgravity, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pluripotency and Self-Renewal of Embryonic Stem Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Neutral Buoyancy as a Simple Approach to Simulated Microgravity.Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine · 2026Article
- Stem cells in space: microgravity effects on stem cell fate and implications for regenerative medicine.NPJ microgravity · 2025Review
- Microgravity and Cellular Biology: Insights into Cellular Responses and Implications for Human Health.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Effects of simulated microgravity on dental pulp stem cell stemness.Journal of molecular histology · 2025Article
- Conserved mechanisms of self-renewal and pluripotency in mouse and human ESCs regulated by simulated microgravity using a 3D clinostat.Cell death discovery · 2024Article
- Modeled microgravity unravels the roles of mechanical forces in renal progenitor cell physiology.Stem cell research & therapy · 2024Article
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- Spatio-temporal dynamics enhance cellular diversity, neuronal function and further maturation of human cerebral organoids.Communications biology · 2023Article
- EuniceScope: Low-Cost Imaging Platform for Studying Microgravity Cell Biology.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
A systematic study on the biological effects of simulated microgravity (sµg) on human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) is still lacking. Here, we used a fast-rotating 2-D clinostat to investigate the sµg effect on proliferation, self-renewal, and cell cycle regulation of hPSCs. We observed significant upregulation of protein translation of pluripotent transcription factors in hPSC cultured in sµg compared to cells cultured in 1g conditions. In addition to a significant increase in expression of telomere elongation genes. Differentiation experiments showed that hPSC cultured in sµg condition were less susceptible to differentiation compared to cells in 1g conditions. These results suggest that sµg enhances hPSC self-renewal. Our study revealed that sµg enhanced the cell proliferation of hPSCs by regulating the expression of cell cycle-associated kinases. RNA-seq analysis indicated that in sµg condition the expression of differentiation and development pathways are downregulated, while multiple components of the ubiquitin proteasome system are upregulated, contributing to an enhanced self-renewal of hPSCs. These effects of sµg were not replicated in human fibroblasts. Taken together, our results highlight pathways and mechanisms in hPSCs vulnerable to microgravity that imposes significant impacts on human health and performance, physiology, and cellular and molecular processes.
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