Pilib Ó Broin, Michael V. Beckert, Tomohisa Takahashi, Takeshi Izumi, Kenny Ye, Gina Kang, Patricia Pouso, Mackenzie Topolski, Jose L. Pena, Noboru Hiroi
{"title":"Production of Humanized Mice through Stem Cell Transfer.","authors":"Devra D Huey, Stefan Niewiesk","doi":"10.1002/cpmo.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cpmo.38","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of humanized mice has become a prominent tool for translational animal studies of human diseases. Here we show how immune deficient mice can be \"humanized\" by injections of human umbilical cord stem cells. The engraftment of these cells and development into human lymphocytes has been possible because of the development of novel severely immune deficient mouse strains. Here we present proven protocols for the generation and analysis of humanized mice on the NSG mouse background.</p>","PeriodicalId":37980,"journal":{"name":"Current protocols in mouse biology","volume":"8 1","pages":"17-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/cpmo.38","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36297652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}