Article
Immature neurons from CNS stem cells proliferate in response to platelet-derived growth factor.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 May 2001
Erlandsson A, Enarsson M, Forsberg-Nilsson K
Abstract excerpt
Identifying external signals involved in the regulation of neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation is fundamental to the understanding of CNS development. In this study we show that platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) can act as a mitogen for neural precursor cells. Multipotent stem cells from developing CNS can be maintained in a proliferative state under serum-free conditions in the presence of...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation
- Bromodeoxyuridine
- Cell Count
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Central Nervous System
- Immunohistochemistry
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins
