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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-22
pubmed:abstractText
Previously, we reported the occurrence of neural stem cells (NSCs) around an area of damage after rat traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it was unclear if this was due to blastgenesis in astrocytes, or to NSCs migrating from the subventricular zone (SVZ). In this study, NSCs were isolated and cultured from cultured type 1 astrocytes taken from newborn rat cortex in which the subventricular zone and hippocampus had been discarded. All cultured type 1 astrocytes showed glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) immunopositivity. Nestin immunopositive spheres were isolated from type 1 astrocytes and cultured in the presence of bFGF and EGF in the medium. Neurospheres differentiated into Tuj1-, GFAP- and A2B5-positive cells after 4 days of culture without bFGF and EGF. These results indicate that isolated neurospheres from brain cortex astrocytes can differentiate into neurons and glia and might contribute to neurogenesis and neuroplasticity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0364-3190
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1381-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Astrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Intermediate Filament Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Microscopy, Phase-Contrast, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Neuroglia, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:17053966-Stem Cells
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Cultured rat astrocytes give rise to neural stem cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. tatsuki@med.kindai.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article