Cerebellar neural stem cells differentiate into two distinct types of astrocytes in response to CNTF and BMP2

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• 作者：Takayuki Okano-Uchida ; Masae Naruse ; Takayuki Ikezawa ; Koji Shibasaki ; Yasuki Ishizaki
• 关键词：Cerebellum ; Astrocyte ; Neural stem cell ; BMP2 ; CNTF
• 刊名：Neuroscience Letters
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：27 September, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：552
• 期：Complete
• 页码：15-20
• 全文大小：2161 K

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Neural stem cells (NSCs) are present in postnatal murine cerebellum. The detailed characteristics of these NSCs have never been reported. This study isolated NSC-like cells from postnatal mouse cerebellum. These cells proliferated in response to epidermal growth factor, expressed various NSC markers, and had the ability to self-renew. Neurosphere assays revealed that these cells could differentiate into neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes, indicating multipotency as NSCs. Although possessing multipotency, most of these cells differentiated into astrocytes spontaneously in vitro. Both ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) and bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) facilitated expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and some other characteristics of mature astrocytes by these cells. However, the shape and expression of glutamine transporter GLT-1 of GFAP⁺ cells generated in the presence of CNTF or BMP2 differed significantly, suggesting that CNTF and BMP2 induced differentiation of these NSCs into two distinct types of astrocytes.