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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Kataoka Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Yuta Murakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Kanagawa, JP;
Ping Dai, Kyoto, JP;
Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshinori Harada, Kyoto, JP;
Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Kataoka Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a method for producing brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells from somatic cells without performing artificial gene transfer; brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells; or a composition including a combination of chemical substances that can be used for the aforementioned production method. An example of the present invention is a method for producing brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells including a step for culturing somatic cells in the presence or absence of an inhibitor or activator selected from the group consisting of an ALK5 inhibitor, an ALK6 inhibitor, an AMPK inhibitor, a cAMP activator, an ALK2 inhibitor, an ALK3 inhibitor, a GSK3 inhibitor, and an Erk inhibitor.