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Establishment and properties of a growth factor-dependent, perpetual neural stem cell line from the human CNS
- Source :
- Experimental neurology. 161(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- The ready availability of unlimited quantities of neural stem cells derived from the human brain holds great interest for basic and applied neuroscience, including therapeutic cell replacement and gene transfer following transplantation. We report here the combination of epigenetic and genetic procedures for perpetuating human neural stem cell lines. Thus we tested various culture conditions and genes for those that optimally allow for the continuous, rapid expansion and passaging of human neural stem cells. Among them, v-myc (the p110 gag–myc fusion protein derived from the avian retroviral genome) seems to be the most effective gene; we have also identified a strict requirement for the presence of mitogens (FGF-2 and EGF) in the growth medium, in effect constituting a conditional perpetuality or immortalization. A monoclonal, nestin-positive, human neural stem cell line (HNSC.100) perpetuated in this way divides every 40 h and stops dividing upon mitogen removal, undergoing spontaneous morphological differentiation and upregulating markers of the three fundamental lineages in the CNS (neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes). HNSC.100 cells therefore retain basic features of epigenetically expanded human neural stem cells. Clonal analysis confirmed the stability, multipotency, and self-renewability of the cell line. Finally, HNSC.100 can be transfected and transduced using a variety of procedures and genes encoding proteins for marking purposes and of therapeutic interest (e.g., human tyrosine hydroxylase I).
- Subjects :
- Central Nervous System
Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
Genetic enhancement
Cell Culture Techniques
Genes, myc
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Biology
Stem cell marker
Transfection
Nestin
Developmental Neuroscience
Intermediate Filament Proteins
Tubulin
Neurosphere
Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Humans
Vimentin
Epigenetics
Cell Line, Transformed
Neurons
Epidermal Growth Factor
Stem Cells
Brain
Cell Differentiation
Genetic Therapy
Fusion protein
Genes, gag
Neural stem cell
Nerve Regeneration
Transplantation
Blotting, Southern
Phenotype
Retroviridae
Neurology
Cell culture
Nerve Degeneration
Fibroblast Growth Factor 2
Neuroscience
Microtubule-Associated Proteins
Cell Division
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00144886
- Volume :
- 161
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Experimental neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....530c820e199be74236e4c0293efdaf82