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Tissue Engineering: EMSCs Build an All‐in‐One Niche via Cell–Cell Lipid Raft Assembly for Promoted Neuronal but Suppressed Astroglial Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells (Adv. Mater. 10/2019)
Author(s) -
Deng Wenwen,
Shao Fengxia,
He Qinghua,
Wang Qiang,
Shi Wentao,
Yu Qingtong,
Cao Xia,
Feng Chunlai,
Bi Shiqi,
Chen Jiaxin,
Ma Ping,
Li Yang,
Gong Aihua,
Tong Shanshan,
Yu Jiangnan,
Spector Myron,
Xu Ximing,
Zhang Zhijian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201970069
Subject(s) - niche , neural stem cell , lipid raft , stem cell niche , stem cell , microbiology and biotechnology , raft , lipid microdomain , materials science , cell , tissue engineering , cellular differentiation , biology , nanotechnology , signal transduction , membrane , biochemistry , progenitor cell , copolymer , genetics , composite material , polymer , gene
Ectomesenchymal stem cells, serving as a living, smart material, create a permissive, all‐in‐one niche for neural stem cells (NSCs) via direct‐contact coculture. As described by Ximing Xu, Zhijian Zhang, and co‐workers in article number 1806861 , a corresponding all‐in‐one signal‐sensing platform is assembled through recruiting various niche signaling molecules into lipid rafts for promoting NSC neuronal differentiation while inhibiting astrocyte overproliferation.