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Dr Lucy Smith's Outputs (7)

Evaluating Strategies to Assess the Differentiation Potential of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A Review, Analysis and Call for Innovation (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, L., Quelch-Cliffe, R., Liu, F., Aguilar, A. H., & Przyborski, S. (online). Evaluating Strategies to Assess the Differentiation Potential of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A Review, Analysis and Call for Innovation. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-024-10793-5

Pluripotent stem cells have the ability to differentiate into all cells and tissues within the human body, and as a result they are attractive resources for use in basic research, drug discovery and regenerative medicine. In order to successfully ach... Read More about Evaluating Strategies to Assess the Differentiation Potential of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A Review, Analysis and Call for Innovation.

Investigation into the effect of skin tone modulators and exogenous stress on skin pigmentation utilizing a novel bioengineered skin equivalent (2022)
Journal Article
Goncalves, K., De Los Santos Gomez, P., Costello, L., Smith, L., Mead, H., Simpson, A., & Przyborski, S. (2023). Investigation into the effect of skin tone modulators and exogenous stress on skin pigmentation utilizing a novel bioengineered skin equivalent. Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, 8(2), Article e10415. https://doi.org/10.1002/btm2.10415

Human skin equivalents (HSEs) are a popular technology due to limitations in animal testing, particularly as they recapitulate aspects of structure and function of human skin. Many HSEs contain two basic cell types to model dermal and epidermal compa... Read More about Investigation into the effect of skin tone modulators and exogenous stress on skin pigmentation utilizing a novel bioengineered skin equivalent.

Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells (2022)
Journal Article
Hidalgo Aguilar, A., Smith, L., Owens, D., Quelch, R., & Przyborski, S. (2022). Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Bioengineering, 9(5), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9050185

In vitro studies using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a valuable method to study aspects of embryogenesis, avoiding ethical issues when using embryonic materials and species dissimilarities. The xenograft teratoma assay is often traditionally... Read More about Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells.

How good is the evidence that cellular senescence causes skin ageing? (2021)
Journal Article
Low, E., Alimohammadiha, G., Smith, L. A., Costello, L. F., Przyborski, S. A., von Zglinicki, T., & Miwa, S. (2021). How good is the evidence that cellular senescence causes skin ageing?. Ageing Research Reviews, 71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101456

Skin is the largest organ of the body with important protective functions, which become compromised with time due to both intrinsic and extrinsic ageing processes. Cellular senescence is the primary ageing process at cell level, associated with loss... Read More about How good is the evidence that cellular senescence causes skin ageing?.

Using Advanced Cell Culture Techniques to Differentiate Pluripotent Stem Cells and Recreate Tissue Structures Representative of Teratoma Xenografts (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, L., Hidalgo Aguilar, A., Owens, D., Quelch, R., Knight, E., & Przyborski, S. (2021). Using Advanced Cell Culture Techniques to Differentiate Pluripotent Stem Cells and Recreate Tissue Structures Representative of Teratoma Xenografts. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.667246

Various methods are currently used to investigate human tissue differentiation, including human embryo culture and studies utilising pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) such as in vitro embryoid body formation and in vivo teratoma assays. Each method has i... Read More about Using Advanced Cell Culture Techniques to Differentiate Pluripotent Stem Cells and Recreate Tissue Structures Representative of Teratoma Xenografts.

Applications of novel bioreactor technology to enhance the viability and function of cultured cells and tissues (2020)
Journal Article
Hoyle, H., Smith, L., Williams, R., & Przyborski, S. (2020). Applications of novel bioreactor technology to enhance the viability and function of cultured cells and tissues. Interface Focus, 10(2), Article 20190090. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0090

As the field of tissue engineering continues to advance rapidly, so too does the complexity of cell culture techniques used to generate in vitro tissue constructs, with the overall aim of mimicking the in vivo microenvironment. This complexity typica... Read More about Applications of novel bioreactor technology to enhance the viability and function of cultured cells and tissues.