251. Adaptation of NS cells growth and differentiation to high-throughput screening-compatible plates.
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Garavaglia A, Moiana A, Camnasio S, Bolognini D, Papait R, Rigamonti D, and Cattaneo E
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- Animals, Apoptosis, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Cell Survival, Cyclic AMP metabolism, Mice, Mice, Inbred Strains, Neurogenesis, Oxidative Stress physiology, Receptors, GABA-A metabolism, Stem Cell Niche physiology, Time Factors, Adult Stem Cells physiology, Cell Culture Techniques instrumentation, Cell Culture Techniques methods, High-Throughput Screening Assays instrumentation, High-Throughput Screening Assays methods, Neurons physiology
- Abstract
Background: There is an urgent need of neuronal cell models to be applied to high-throughput screening settings while recapitulating physiological and/or pathological events occurring in the Central Nervous System (CNS). Stem cells offer a great opportunity in this direction since their self renewal capacity allows for large scale expansion. Protocols for directed differentiation also promise to generate populations of biochemically homogenous neuronal progenies. NS (Neural Stem) cells are a novel population of stem cells that undergo symmetric cell division in monolayer and chemically defined media, while remaining highly neurogenic., Results: We report the full adaptation of the NS cell systems for their growth and neuronal differentiation to 96- and 384-well microplates. This optimized system has also been exploited in homogeneous and high-content assays., Conclusions: Our results show that these mouse NS cells may be suitable for a series of applications in high-throughput format.
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- 2010
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