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Isolation and transplantation of multipotential populations of epidermal growth factor–responsive, neural progenitor cells from the canine brain
Author(s) -
Milward Elizabeth A.,
Lundberg Cathryn G.,
Ge Bin,
Lipsitz David,
Zhao Ming,
Duncan Ian D.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of neuroscience research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.72
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1097-4547
pISSN - 0360-4012
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19971201)50:5<862::aid-jnr22>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - progenitor cell , isolation (microbiology) , neural stem cell , transplantation , biology , neuroscience , epidermal growth factor , progenitor , neurosphere , microbiology and biotechnology , stem cell , medicine , adult stem cell , cellular differentiation , cell culture , bioinformatics , genetics , gene
Glial cell transplantation into myelin‐deficient rodent models has resulted in myelination of axons and restoration of conduction velocity. The shaking ( sh ) pup canine myelin mutant is a useful model in which to test the ability to repair human myelin diseases, but as in humans, the canine donor supply for allografting is limited. A solution may be provided by self‐renewing epidermal growth factor (EGF)‐responsive multipotential neural progenitor cell populations (“neurospheres”). Nonadherent spherical clusters, similar in appearance to murine neurospheres, have been obtained from the brain of perinatal wildtype ( wt ) canine brain and expanded in vitro in the presence of EGF for at least 6 months. Most of the cells in these clusters express a nestin‐related protein. Within 1–2 weeks after removal of EGF, cells from the clusters generate neurons, astrocytes, and both oligodendroglial progenitors and oligodendrocytes. Transplantation of lacZ‐expressing wt neurospheres into the myelin‐deficient ( md ) rat showed that a proportion of the cells differentiated into oligodendrocytes and produced myelin. In addition, cells from the neurosphere populations survived at least 6 weeks after grafting into a 14‐day postnatal sh pup recipient and at least 2 weeks after grafting into an adult sh pup recipient. Thus, neurospheres provide a new source of allogeneic donor cells for transplantation studies in this mutant. J. Neurosci. Res. 50:862–871, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.