Table 3.

Different cell sources and different combinations of reprogramming factors have been used by different groups for reprogramming to iPSCs (O- Oct4; S- Sox2; K- Klf4; M- c-Myc; N- Nanog, L- Lin28).

Type of cells	Reprogramming factors	References
Fibroblast	OSKM	Takahashi and Yamanaka, 2006a
	OSLN	Yu et al., 2007
Keratinocytes	OSKM	Aasen et al., 2008
Cord blood endothelial cells	OSLN	Haase et al., 2009
Cord blood stem cells	OSKM	Ye et al., 2009
Neural stem cells	O	Kim et al., 2009a
Melanocytes	OSKM	Utikal et al., 2009
Amniotic cells	OSKM	Li et al., 2009
Adipose derived stem cells	OSKM	Sugii et al., 2010
Hepatocytes	OSKM	Liu et al., 2010
Circulating T cells	OSKM	Seki et al., 2010
Astrocytes	OSKM	Ruiz et al., 2010
Peripheral blood	OSKM	Kunisato et al., 2011
Kidney mesangial cells	OSKM	Song et al., 2011
Urine cells	OS	Zhou et al., 2012