Abstract
Although it has long been known that cultured embryonic stem cells can generate neurons, the lineage relationships with their immediate precursors remain unclear. We report here that selection of highly proliferative stem cells followed by treatment with retinoic acid generated essentially pure precursors that markers identified as Pax-6-positive radial glial cells. As they do in vivo, these cells went on to generate neurons with remarkably uniform biochemical and electrophysiological characteristics.
MeSH Terms
Animals
Bicuculline/pharmacology
Blotting, Western
Calmodulin-Binding Proteins/metabolism
Carrier Proteins/metabolism
Cell Count/methods
Cell Differentiation/drug effects,physiology,radiation effects
Cell Lineage/physiology
Cells, Cultured
Drug Interactions
Electric Stimulation/methods
Embryo, Mammalian/cytology
Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists/pharmacology
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/pharmacology
Eye Proteins
Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7
Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins
GABA Antagonists/pharmacology
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein/metabolism
Glutamic Acid/pharmacology
Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism
Immunohistochemistry/methods
Indoles
Intermediate Filament Proteins/metabolism
Membrane Potentials/drug effects,radiation effects
Mice
Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
Nestin
Neuroglia/metabolism
Neurogranin
Neurons/classification,cytology,drug effects,metabolism
PAX6 Transcription Factor
Paired Box Transcription Factors
Patch-Clamp Techniques
Quinoxalines/pharmacology
Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor
Receptor, trkA/metabolism
Receptors, AMPA/metabolism
Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/metabolism
Repressor Proteins
Stem Cells/drug effects,physiology,radiation effects
Synaptophysin
Tetrodotoxin/pharmacology
Time Factors
Tretinoin/pharmacology
Tubulin/metabolism
Valine/analogs & derivatives,pharmacology
Chemicals
Calmodulin-Binding Proteins
Carrier Proteins
Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Eye Proteins
Fabp7 protein, mouse
Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7
Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins
GABA Antagonists
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Homeodomain Proteins
Indoles
Intermediate Filament Proteins
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Nes protein, mouse
Nestin
Nrgn protein, mouse
PAX6 Transcription Factor
Paired Box Transcription Factors
Pax6 protein, mouse
Quinoxalines
Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor
Receptors, AMPA
Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor
Repressor Proteins
Synaptophysin
Tubulin
beta3 tubulin, mouse
2,3-dioxo-6-nitro-7-sulfamoylbenzo(f)quinoxaline
Neurogranin
Glutamic Acid
Tetrodotoxin
DAPI
Tretinoin
2-amino-5-phosphopentanoic acid
Receptor, trkA
Valine
glutamate receptor ionotropic, AMPA 1
Bicuculline
Authors & Affiliations
8 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Bibel Miriam
Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Richter Jens
Schrenk Katrin
Tucker Kerry Lee
Staiger Volker
Korte Martin
Goetz Magdalena
Barde Yves-Alain