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Windrem MS, Roy NS, Wang J, Nunes M, Benraiss A, Goodman R, McKhann GM, Goldman SA. Progenitor cells derived from the adult human subcortical white matter disperse and differentiate as oligodendrocytes within demyelinated lesions of the rat brain. J Neurosci Res 2002; 69:966-75. [PMID: 12205690 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A distinct population of white matter progenitor cells (WMPCs), competent but not committed to generate oligodendrocytes, remains ubiquitous in the adult human subcortical white matter. These cells are present in both sexes and into senescence and may constitute as much as 4% of the cells of adult human capsular white matter. Transduction of adult human white matter dissociates with plasmids bearing early oligodendrocytic promoters driving fluorescent reporters permits the separation of these cells at high yield and purity, as does separation based on their expression of A2B5 immunoreactivity. Isolates of these cells survive xenograft to lysolecithin-demyelinated brain and migrate rapidly to infiltrate these lesions, without extending into normal white matter. Within several weeks, implanted progenitors mature as oligodendrocytes, and develop myelin-associated antigens. Lentiviral tagging with green fluorescent protein confirmed that A2B5-sorted progenitors develop myelin basic protein expression within regions of demyelination and that they fail to migrate when implanted into normal brain. Adult human white matter progenitor cells can thus disperse widely through regions of experimental demyelination and are able to differentiate as myelinating oligodendrocytes. This being the case, they may constitute appropriate vectors for cell-based remyelination strategies.
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- Martha S Windrem
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Mason JL, Goldman JE. A2B5+ and O4+ Cycling progenitors in the adult forebrain white matter respond differentially to PDGF-AA, FGF-2, and IGF-1. Mol Cell Neurosci 2002; 20:30-42. [PMID: 12056838 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2002.1114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cycling glial progenitors reside within subcortical white matter of the mammalian adult forebrain. Either A2B5 or O4 expression defines two of the major classes of cycling progenitors. We examined the growth factor receptor profiles of these progenitor populations and their capability to proliferate and differentiate in response to PDGF-AA, FGF-2, and IGF-1. FGF-2 and IGF-1 enhance the acquisition of O1 by the O4+ progenitors, but have no significant effect on the acquisition of O4 and/or O1 by the A2B5+ progenitors. In contrast, PDGF-AA enhances the acquisition of O1 by the A2B5+ progenitors, while having no significant affect on the acquisition of O1 by the O4+ progenitors unless combined with FGF-2. In addition, PDGF-AA and FGF-2 promote the proliferation of A2B5+ progenitors, while having no mitogenic effect on the O4+ progenitors unless the two factors are combined with IGF-1. Interestingly, not all of the progenitors within the A2B5 or O4 populations express the same growth factor receptors nor respond similarly to growth factors. Thus, there are substantial differences between the two populations and heterogeneity within each of these populations may exist.
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- J L Mason
- Department of Pathology, The Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 W. 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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A decade ago, therapeutic strategies to remyelinate the CNS in diseases such as multiple sclerosis had much experimental appeal, but translation of laboratory success into clinical treatments appeared to be a long way off. Within the past 12 months, however, the first patients with multiple sclerosis have received intracerebral implants of autologous myelinating cells. Here we review the clinical and biological problems presented by multiple sclerosis disease processes, and the background to the development of myelin-repair strategies. We attempt to highlight those areas where difficulties have yet to be resolved, and draw on various experimental findings to speculate on how remyelinating therapies are likely to develop in the foreseeable future.
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Franklin RJM. Remyelination of the demyelinated CNS: the case for and against transplantation of central, peripheral and olfactory glia. Brain Res Bull 2002; 57:827-32. [PMID: 12031280 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(01)00765-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although originally developed as a research tool for studying glial-glial and glial-axonal interactions, the technique of transplanting glial cell into the central nervous system has more recently been employed as a potential means for repairing persistent demyelination in clinical disease. It has now been clearly established using various experimental models that oligodendrocyte lineage cells, Schwann cells and olfactory ensheathing cells can all produce new myelin sheaths around demyelinated or amyelinated axons following transplantation. However, this property alone does not necessarily mean that transplantation of these cells into demyelinated lesions in clinical disease will be successful. This article considers some of the properties that would be required of a transplanted myelinogenic cell and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the currently available cell types.
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- Robin J M Franklin
- Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK.
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A recent assertion that new neurons are continually added to the neocortex of adult macaque monkeys has profound implications for understanding the cellular mechanisms of higher cognitive functions. Here we searched for neurogenesis in adult macaques by using immunofluorescent triple labeling for the DNA-replication indicator, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), and neuronal and glial cell markers. Although numerous BrdU-labeled cells were distributed throughout the cerebral wall, including the neocortex, these were identified as nonneuronal cells; evidence for newly generated neurons was limited to the hippocampus and olfactory bulb. Thus, our results do not substantiate the claim of neurogenesis in normal adult primate neocortex.
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- D R Kornack
- Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Piper DR, Mujtaba T, Keyoung H, Roy NS, Goldman SA, Rao MS, Lucero MT. Identification and characterization of neuronal precursors and their progeny from human fetal tissue. J Neurosci Res 2001; 66:356-68. [PMID: 11746353 PMCID: PMC2976509 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.1228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We have examined primary human neuronal precursors (HNPs) from 18-22-week-old fetuses. We showed that E-NCAM/MAP2/beta-III tubulin-immunoreactive neuronal precursors divide in vitro and could be induced to differentiate into mature neurons in 2 weeks. HNPs did not express nestin and differentiated slowly compared to rodent neuronal restricted precursors (NRPs, 5 days). Immunocytochemical and physiological analyses showed that HNPs could generate a heterogeneous population of neurons that expressed neurofilament-associated protein and various neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter synthesizing enzymes, voltage-gated ion channels, and ligand-gated neurotransmitter receptors and could fire action potentials. Undifferentiated and differentiated HNPs did not coexpress glial markers. Only a subset of cells that expressed GFP under the control of the Talpha1 tubulin promoter was E-NCAM/beta-III tubulin-immunoreactive, indicating nonexclusive overlap between these two HNP cell populations. Overall, HNPs resemble NRPs isolated from rodent tissue and appear to be a neuronal precursor population.
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- David R. Piper
- Department of Physiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Stem Cell, NIUS, GRC, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York
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- Stem Cell, NIUS, GRC, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Physiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Correspondence to: Mary T. Lucero, PhD, Department of Physiology, 410 Chipeta Way, Room 155, Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1297.,
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Keyoung HM, Roy NS, Benraiss A, Louissaint A, Suzuki A, Hashimoto M, Rashbaum WK, Okano H, Goldman SA. High-yield selection and extraction of two promoter-defined phenotypes of neural stem cells from the fetal human brain. Nat Biotechnol 2001; 19:843-50. [PMID: 11533643 DOI: 10.1038/nbt0901-843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Neural stem and precursor cells reside in the ventricular lining of the fetal forebrain, and may provide a cellular substrate for brain repair. To selectively identify and extract these cells, we infected dissociated fetal human brain cells with adenoviruses bearing the gene for green fluorescence protein (GFP), placed under the control of enhancer/promoters for two genes (nestin and musashi1) that are expressed in uncommitted neuroepithelial cells. The cells were then sorted by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) on the basis of E/nestin- or P/musashi1-driven GFP expression. Both P/musashi1:hGFP- and E/nestin:EGFP-sorted cells were multipotent: limiting dilution with clonal expansion as neurospheres, in tandem with retroviral lineage analysis and xenograft to E17 and P0-2 rat forebrain, revealed that each phenotype was able to both self-renew and co-generate neurons and glia. Thus, fluorescent genes placed under the control of early neural promoters allow neural stem cells to be specifically targeted, isolated, and substantially enriched from the fetal human brain.
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- H M Keyoung
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Benraiss A, Chmielnicki E, Lerner K, Roh D, Goldman SA. Adenoviral brain-derived neurotrophic factor induces both neostriatal and olfactory neuronal recruitment from endogenous progenitor cells in the adult forebrain. J Neurosci 2001; 21:6718-31. [PMID: 11517261 PMCID: PMC6763117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2000] [Revised: 03/12/2001] [Accepted: 04/06/2001] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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Neural progenitor cells persist throughout the adult forebrain subependyma, and neurons generated from them respond to brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) with enhanced maturation and survival. To induce neurogenesis from endogenous progenitors, we overexpressed BDNF in the adult ventricular zone by transducing the forebrain ependyma to constitutively express BDNF. We constructed a bicistronic adenovirus bearing BDNF under cytomegalovirus (CMV) control, and humanized green fluorescent protein (hGFP) under internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) control. This AdCMV:BDNF:IRES:hGFP (AdBDNF) was injected into the lateral ventricles of adult rats, who were treated for 18 d thereafter with the mitotic marker bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU). Three weeks after injection, BDNF averaged 1 microg/gm in the CSF of AdBDNF-injected animals but was undetectable in control CSF. In situ hybridization demonstrated BDNF and GFP mRNA expression restricted to the ventricular wall. In AdBDNF-injected rats, the olfactory bulb exhibited a >2.4-fold increase in the number of BrdU(+)-betaIII-tubulin(+) neurons, confirmed by confocal imaging, relative to AdNull (AdCMV:hGFP) controls. Importantly, AdBDNF-associated neuronal recruitment to the neostriatum was also noted, with the treatment-induced addition of BrdU(+)-NeuN(+)-betaIII-tubulin(+) neurons to the caudate putamen. Many of these cells also expressed glutamic acid decarboxylase, cabindin-D28, and DARPP-32 (dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of 32 kDa), markers of medium spiny neurons of the neostriatum. These newly generated neurons survived at least 5-8 weeks after viral induction. Thus, a single injection of adenoviral BDNF substantially augmented the recruitment of new neurons into both neurogenic and non-neurogenic sites in the adult rat brain. The intraventricular delivery of, and ependymal infection by, viral vectors encoding neurotrophic agents may be a feasible strategy for inducing neurogenesis from resident progenitor cells in the adult brain.
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- A Benraiss
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Solanky M, Maeda Y, Ming X, Husar W, Li W, Cook S, Dowling P. Proliferating oligodendrocytes are present in both active and chronic inactive multiple sclerosis plaques. J Neurosci Res 2001; 65:308-17. [PMID: 11494366 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.1155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The proliferation marker Ki-67 labels cell nuclei in the G(1), S, M, and G(2) phases of the cell cycle. We used Ki-67 immunohistochemistry to quantify proliferating glial cells in brain tissue sections from twenty-four patients, comprised of multiple sclerosis, normal brains, and other neurological disease controls. Glial proliferation was greatly increased in MS lesions when compared with control brain white matter. Both actively demyelinating/early remyelinating plaques and chronic inactive plaques of long standing often displayed large numbers of glial cells in the proliferative cycle. The bulk of these proliferating cells were of oligodendroglial lineage in the MS plaques. Ki-67 positive macrophage/microglial lineage cells were largely restricted to acute lesions. The finding of increased numbers of proliferating oligodendroglia in most MS plaques, regardless of disease duration or activity state, indicates that the MS brain is capable of recruiting unexpectedly large numbers of new oligodendrocytes over long periods of time. The factors within the MS plaque microenvironment that provoke new oligodendrocyte generation and their subsequent loss still need to be identified.
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- M Solanky
- Neurology Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, 385 Tremont Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07019, USA
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Arsenijevic Y, Villemure JG, Brunet JF, Bloch JJ, Déglon N, Kostic C, Zurn A, Aebischer P. Isolation of multipotent neural precursors residing in the cortex of the adult human brain. Exp Neurol 2001; 170:48-62. [PMID: 11421583 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2001.7691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Multipotent precursors able to generate neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes have previously been isolated from human brain embryos and recently from neurogenic regions of the adult human brains. The isolation of multipotent neural precursors from adult human should open new perspectives to study adult neurogenesis and for brain repair. The present study describes the in vitro isolation from adult human brains of a progenitor responsive to both epidermal and basic fibroblast growth factors that forms spheres as it proliferates. Single spheres derived from various regions of the brain generate in vitro neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. The clonal origin of the spheres was revealed by genomic viral insertion using lentiviral vector. Interestingly, this vector appears to be a potent tool for gene transfer into human neural progeny. Ninety-six percent of the spheres investigated were multipotent. Multipotent precursors were isolated from all brain regions studied, including the temporal and the frontal cortex, the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the ventricular zone. This study is the first evidence that primitive precursors such as multipotent precursors exist in the adult human cortex and can reside far from the ventricles. Neurogenesis derived from adult human progenitors differ to murine neurogenesis by the requirement of laminin for oligodendrocyte generation and by the action of basic-fibroblast growth factor and platelet derived growth factor that prevented the formation of oligodendrocytes and neurons. Moreover, the differentiation of human adult precursors seems to differ from fetal ones: adult precursors do not necessitate the removal of mitogen for differentiation. These results indicate that the study of adult multipotent precursors is a new platform to study adult human neurogenesis, potentially generate neural cells for transplantation, and design protocols for in vivo stimulation.
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- Y Arsenijevic
- Gene Therapy Center & Surgical Research Division, Lausanne University Medical School, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Maher EA, Furnari FB, Bachoo RM, Rowitch DH, Louis DN, Cavenee WK, DePinho RA. Malignant glioma: genetics and biology of a grave matter. Genes Dev 2001; 15:1311-33. [PMID: 11390353 DOI: 10.1101/gad.891601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 871] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- E A Maher
- Center for Neuro-Oncology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Maeda Y, Solanky M, Menonna J, Chapin J, Li W, Dowling P. Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor-positive oligodendroglia are frequent in multiple sclerosis lesions. Ann Neurol 2001; 49:776-85. [PMID: 11409430 DOI: 10.1002/ana.1015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) ligand is a potent glial cell mitogen. When its cognate receptor (PDGF-alphaR) is expressed on oligodendroglial lineage cells, such cells are considered capable of division, and the receptor thus serves as a phenotypic marker for oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Here we identify using immunohistochemistry a considerably enlarged, PDGF-alphaR-expressing oligodendrocyte cell population within multiple sclerosis (MS) white matter lesions compared to control brains. Numerous PDGF-alphaR-positive oligodendroglia also colabel heavily with the nuclear cell proliferation marker antibody Ki-67. Our finding of large numbers of proliferating oligodendroglia in MS brains expressing up-regulated PDGF-alphaR suggests that these progenitor-like cells represent an important source of regenerating cells for the healing MS lesion.
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- Y Maeda
- Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange 07019, USA
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Nataf S, Levison SW, Barnum SR. Expression of the anaphylatoxin C5a receptor in the oligodendrocyte lineage. Brain Res 2001; 894:321-6. [PMID: 11251209 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02003-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Expression of the C5a receptor in the central nervous system has been demonstrated on microglia, astrocytes and neurons. In the present study, we demonstrate C5aR expression in vitro by rat and murine O2-A progenitor cells and oligodendrocytes. We also observed that in vitro differentiation of O2-A progenitors into mature oligodendrocytes is accompanied by down-regulation of C5aR mRNA expression. These results suggest that the C5aR may be a marker for oligodendroglial differentiation and play a role in oligodendrocyte function.
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- S Nataf
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
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Chandross KJ, Champagne B, Auble K, Hudson LD. Tracking oligodendrocytes during development and regeneration. Microsc Res Tech 2001; 52:766-77. [PMID: 11276129 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Over the past decade, advances in strategies to tag cells have opened new avenues for examining the development of myelin-forming glial cells and for monitoring transplanted cells in animal models of myelin insufficiency. The strategies for labelling glial cells have encompassed a range of genetic modifications as well as methods for directly attaching labels to cells. Genetically modified oligodendrocytes have been engineered to express enzymatic (e.g., beta-galactosidase, alkaline phosphatase), naturally fluorescent (e.g., green fluorescent protein), and antibiotic resistance (e.g., neomycin, zeomycin) reporters. Genes have been introduced in vivo and in vitro with viral or plasmid vectors to somatically label glial cells. To generate germ-line transmission of tagged oligodendrocytes, transgenic mice have been created both by direct injection into mouse fertilized eggs and by "knock-in" of reporters targetted to myelin gene loci in embryonic stem cells. Each experimental approach has advantages and limitations that need to be considered for individual applications. The availability of tagged glial cells has expanded our basic understanding of how oligodendrocytes are specified from stem cells and should continue to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how oligodendrocytes differentiate, myelinate, and maintain their myelin sheaths. Moreover, the ability to select oligodendrocytes by virtue of their acquired antibiotic resistance has provided an important new tool for isolating and purifying oligodendrocytes. Tagged glial cells have also been invaluable in evaluating cell transplant therapies in the nervous system. The tracking technologies that have driven these advances in glial cell biology are continuing to evolve and present new opportunities for examining oligodendrocytes in living systems. Microsc. Res. Tech. 52:766-777, 2001. Published 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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- K J Chandross
- Laboratory of Developmental Neurogenetics, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4160, USA
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Barami K, Zhao J, Diaz FG, Lyman WD. Comparison of neural precursor cell fate in second trimester human brain and spinal cord. Neurol Res 2001; 23:260-6. [PMID: 11320606 DOI: 10.1179/016164101101198406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Neural transplantation holds promise for the treatment of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury by replacing lost cellular elements as well as repairing neural damage. Fetal human stem cells derived from central nervous system (CNS) tissue are potential transplantable sources for all cell types found in the mature human nervous system including neurons, astrocytes and oligodendroglia. Although nearly all areas of the fetal human neuraxis contain undifferentiated neural precursor cells, the phenotypic fate of the daughter cells might vary from one region to another during a specific developmental period. The purpose of this study was to compare the various cell types derived from neural precursors cultured from second trimester fetal human brain and spinal cord. To this end, brains (n = 8) and spinal cords (n = 8) of 15-24 week fetuses were dissociated and grown in culture medium supplemented with epidermal growth factor (EGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). The proliferating precursor cells from both brain and spinal cord grew as spherical masses that were plated on laminin-coated dishes after seven days in culture. During the next 5-7 days, the cells that emerged from these spheres were fixed and processed for immunocytochemistry. Brain derived spheres gave rise to cells expressing antigens specific for neurons (MAP-2ab and neuron specific-intermediate filaments), astrocytes (GFAP) and oligodendrocytes (A007). In contrast, cells that emerged from spinal cord derived spheres were only immunoreactive for GFAP. These data suggest that neuroepithelial precursor cells from different CNS regions, although similar in their responsiveness to proliferative growth factors, might differ in their ability to generate different cell types in the adult CNS.
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- K Barami
- Dept. of Neurosurgery, Wayne State University UHC-6E, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
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Back SA, Luo NL, Borenstein NS, Levine JM, Volpe JJ, Kinney HC. Late oligodendrocyte progenitors coincide with the developmental window of vulnerability for human perinatal white matter injury. J Neurosci 2001; 21:1302-12. [PMID: 11160401 PMCID: PMC6762224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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Hypoxic-ischemic injury to the periventricular cerebral white matter [periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)] results in cerebral palsy and is the leading cause of brain injury in premature infants. The principal feature of PVL is a chronic disturbance of myelination and suggests that oligodendrocyte (OL) lineage progression is disrupted by ischemic injury. We determined the OL lineage stages at risk for injury during the developmental window of vulnerability for PVL (23-32 weeks, postconceptional age). In 26 normal control autopsy human brains, OL lineage progression was defined in parietal white matter, a region of predilection for PVL. Three successive OL stages, the late OL progenitor, the immature OL, and the mature OL, were characterized between 18 and 41 weeks with anti-NG2 proteoglycan, O4, O1, and anti-myelin basic protein (anti-MBP) antibodies. NG2+O4+ late OL progenitors were the predominant stage throughout the latter half of gestation. Between 18 and 27 weeks, O4+O1+ immature OLs were a minor population (9.9 +/- 2.1% of total OLs; n = 9). Between 28 and 41 weeks, an increase in immature OLs to 30.9 +/- 2.1% of total OLs (n = 9) was accompanied by a progressive increase in MBP+ myelin sheaths that were restricted to the periventricular white matter. The developmental window of high risk for PVL thus precedes the onset of myelination and identifies the late OL progenitor as the major potential target. Moreover, the decline in incidence of PVL at approximately 32 weeks coincides with the onset of myelination in the periventricular white matter and suggests that the risk for PVL is related to the presence of late OL progenitors in the periventricular white matter.
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- S A Back
- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA.
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Benoit BO, Savarese T, Joly M, Engstrom CM, Pang L, Reilly J, Recht LD, Ross AH, Quesenberry PJ. Neurotrophin channeling of neural progenitor cell differentiation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/1097-4695(200103)46:4<265::aid-neu1007>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Franklin RJ, Hinks GL, Woodruff RH, O'Leary MT. What roles do growth factors play in CNS remyelination? PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2001; 132:185-93. [PMID: 11544987 PMCID: PMC7133247 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(01)32075-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- R J Franklin
- Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK.
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Yang H, Mujtaba T, Venkatraman G, Wu YY, Rao MS, Luskin MB. Region-specific differentiation of neural tube-derived neuronal restricted progenitor cells after heterotopic transplantation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:13366-71. [PMID: 11087876 PMCID: PMC27230 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.24.13366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Spinal cord neuronal restricted progenitor (NRP) cells, when transplanted into the neonatal anterior forebrain subventricular zone, migrate to distinct regions throughout the forebrain including the olfactory bulb, frontal cortex, and occipital cortex but not to the hippocampus. Their migration pattern and differentiation potential is distinct from anterior forebrain subventricular zone NRPs. Irrespective of their final destination, NRP cells do not differentiate into glia. Rather they synthesize neurotransmitters, acquire region-specific phenotypes, and receive synapses from host neurons after transplantation. Spinal cord NRPs express choline acetyl transferase even in regions where host neurons do not express this marker. The restricted distribution of transplanted spinal cord NRP cells and their acquisition of varied region-specific phenotypes suggest that their ultimate fate and phenotype is dictated by a combination of intrinsic properties and extrinsic cues from the host.
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- H Yang
- Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Antibodies against the chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan, NG2, are increasingly being used to identify the widespread population of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in the adult mammalian CNS. However, the specificity of this marker and the role of NG2-expressing cells in CNS function are still open to question. In this review we consider the evidence that NG2(+) cells in the CNS are part of the oligodendrocyte lineage and whether they can give rise to new oligodendrocytes following demyelination. In both the developing and mature rodent CNS, NG2(+) cells express the established oligodendrocyte lineage marker PDGF-alphaR and from P7, the late progenitor antigen O4, which persists in immature oligodendrocytes. They do not express markers of other CNS populations, such as OX42 or GFAP, at any developmental age. NG2(+) cells represent the major cycling cell population in the normal adult rat CNS, suggesting they have stem cell-like properties. NG2 immunoreactivity is upregulated as a result of physical, viral, excitotoxic and inflammatory insults to the CNS. Following demyelination NG2(+) cell number increases in the immediate vicinity of the lesion and rapid remyelination ensues. NG2 expression has also been investigated in human tissue. Multi-process bearing cells, which morphologically resemble those identified with antibodies against O4, persist in chronically demyelinated multiple sclerosis lesions.
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- M R Dawson
- Department of Neuroinflammation, Division of Neuroscience, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Campus, London, United Kingdom
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Martínez-Serrano A, Villa A, Navarro B, Rubio FJ, Bueno C. Human neural progenitor cells: better blue than green? Nat Med 2000; 6:483-4. [PMID: 10802677 DOI: 10.1038/74918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Roy NS, Wang S, Jiang L, Kang J, Benraiss A, Harrison-Restelli C, Fraser RA, Couldwell WT, Kawaguchi A, Okano H, Nedergaard M, Goldman SA. In vitro neurogenesis by progenitor cells isolated from the adult human hippocampus. Nat Med 2000; 6:271-7. [PMID: 10700228 DOI: 10.1038/73119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 449] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Neurogenesis persists in the adult mammalian hippocampus. To identify and isolate neuronal progenitor cells of the adult human hippocampus, we transfected ventricular zone-free dissociates of surgically-excised dentate gyrus with DNA encoding humanized green fluorescent protein (hGFP), placed under the control of either the nestin enhancer (E/nestin) or the Talpha1 tubulin promoter (P/Talpha1), two regulatory regions that direct transcription in neural progenitor cells. The resultant P/Talpha1:hGFP+ and E/nestin:enhanced (E)GFP+ cells expressed betaIII-tubulin or microtubule-associated protein-2; many incorporated bromodeoxyuridine, indicating their genesis in vitro. Using fluorescence-activated cell sorting, the E/nestin:EGFP+ and P/Talpha1:hGFP+ cells were isolated to near purity, and matured antigenically and physiologically as neurons. Thus, the adult human hippocampus contains mitotically competent neuronal progenitors that can be selectively extracted. The isolation of these cells may provide a cellular substrate for re-populating the damaged or degenerated adult hippocampus.
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- N S Roy
- Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, 1300 York Ave. Room E607, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Antel JP, Nalbantoglu J, Olivier A. Neuronal progenitors-learning from the hippocampus. Nat Med 2000; 6:249-50. [PMID: 10700216 DOI: 10.1038/73076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Delineation of the intimate details of the backbone conformation of pyridine nucleotide coenzymes in aqueous solution. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1976; 5:35-44. [PMID: 2 DOI: 10.1017/s1740925x09990342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Cells that express the NG2 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan and platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (NG2 glia) are widespread in the adult human cerebral cortex and white matter and represent 10–15% of non-neuronal cells. The morphology and distribution of NG2 glia are similar to, but distinct from, both microglia and astrocytes. They are present as early as 17 weeks gestation and persist throughout life. NG2 glia can be detected in a variety of human central nervous system (CNS) diseases, of which multiple sclerosis is the best studied. NG2 glia show morphological changes in the presence of pathology and can show expression of the Ki-67 proliferation antigen. The antigenic profile and morphology of NG2 glia in human tissues are consistent with an oligodendrocyte progenitor function that has been well established in rodent models. Most antibodies to NG2 do not stain formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Advances in our understanding of NG2 glia in human tissues will require the development of more robust markers for their detection in routinely processed human specimens.
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