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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
33
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-11-20
pubmed:abstractText
Finding ways to enhance remyelination is a major challenge in treating demyelinating diseases. Recent studies have suggested that circulating bone marrow cells can home in brain and transdifferentiate into neural cells. To ask whether hematopoietic precursors can form myelinating cells, we investigated the neuropoietic potential of embryonic precursors sorted from the mouse aorta-gonads-mesonephros (AGM) region. This cell fraction is capable of long-term hematopoietic reconstitution and generates colonies containing multipotential precursors and lymphoid or erythro-myeloid progenies. When cultured in hematopoietic growth conditions, a fraction of CD45-positive AGM cells coexpress neural markers such as nestin, the polysialylated form of neural cell adhesion molecule, the betaIII tubulin isoform, and glial fibrillary acidic protein. However, when hematopoietic precursors containing green fluorescent protein were cocultured with embryonic striatal precursors into neurospheres, they maintained their hematopoietic phenotype without undergoing differentiation into neurons, astrocytes, or oligodendrocytes. After intraventricular grafting, hematopoietic precursors integrated into the brain of wild-type or hypomyelinated newborn shiverer mice and gave rise to microglia but not neurons or glia. In contrast, when wild-type embryonic striatal neurospheres were grafted in shiverer, they formed numerous myelin internode patches. Even when neural and hematopoietic precursors were grafted together into shiverer mice, only neural precursors generated myelin-forming cells and synthesized myelin. Thus, embryonic neurospheres have myelin repair properties not shown by embryonic hematopoietic precursors. This suggests that the use of multipotential neural precursors to generate myelin-forming cells remains one of the most promising avenues toward remyelination therapies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10724-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Antigens, Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Aorta, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Cell Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Cell Separation, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Crosses, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Female, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Gonads, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Graft Survival, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Hematopoietic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mesonephros, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mice, Inbred C3H, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mice, Neurologic Mutants, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Microglia, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Myelin Sheath, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:14627658-Oligodendroglia
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Primordial hematopoietic stem cells generate microglia but not myelin-forming cells in a neural environment.
pubmed:affiliation
Unité de Neurovirologie et Régénération du Système Nerveux Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1961, Institut Pasteur, 75724, Paris, Cedex 15, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't