Publications by Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

Pharmacological induction of a progenitor state for the efficient expansion of primary human hepatocytes

Didier Trono, Matthias Lütolf, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Marc Samuel Friedli, Nathalie Brandenberg, Marco Cassano, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

The liver is an organ with strong regenerative capacity, yet primary hepatocytes have a low amplification potential in vitro, a major limitation for the cell-based therapy of liver disorders and for ex vivo biological screens. Induced pluripotent stem cell ...

2019

Method for preparing induced hepatic progenitor cells

Didier Trono, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro, Marc Samuel Friedli

The present invention relates to a method for preparing induced hepatic progenitor cells (iHPC) comprising the steps of dedifferentiation of hepatocytes by culture with a culture medium comprising at least one activator of the Wnt signaling, Basic fibrobla ...

2017

Method for assessing the quality of various cells including induced pluripotent stem cells

Didier Trono, Marc Samuel Friedli, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

The present invention relates to a method for assessing the quality, utility and applicability of a cell according to the said method comprising the following steps: a) analyzing the expression of the TEs of said cell in order to set up an expression profi ...

2016

Loss of transcriptional control over endogenous retroelements during reprogramming to pluripotency

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Bastien Mangeat, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Gabriela Ecco, Marc Samuel Friedli, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Benjamin Rauwel, Helen Mary Rowe, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

Endogenous retroelements (EREs) account for about half of the mouse or human genome, and their potential as insertional mutagens and transcriptional perturbators is suppressed by early embryonic epigenetic silencing. Here, we asked how ERE control is maint ...

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, Publications Dept2014