Interaction between astrocytes and adult subventricular zone precursors stimulates neurogenesis
Interaction between astrocytes and adult subventricular zone precursors stimulates neurogenesis
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.96.13.7526
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发表时间:
1999-06-22
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Alvarez-Buylla, A
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作者:
Lim, DA;Alvarez-Buylla, A
Neurogenesis continues in the mammalian subventricular zone (SVZ) throughout life. However, the signaling and cell-cell interactions required for adult SVZ neurogenesis are not known. In vivo, migratory neuroblasts (type A cells) and putative precursors (type C cells) are in intimate contact with astrocytes (type B cells). Type B cells also contact each other. We reconstituted SVZ cell-cell interactions in a culture system free of serum or exogenous growth factors, Culturing dissociated postnatal or adult SVZ cells on astrocyte monolayers-but not other substrates-supported extensive neurogenesis similar to that observed in vivo. SVZ precursors proliferated rapidly on astrocytes to form colonies containing up to 100 type A neuroblasts. By fractionating the SVZ cell dissociates with differential adhesion to immobilized polylysine, we show that neuronal colony-forming precursors were concentrated in a fraction enriched for type B and C cells. Pure type A cells could migrate in chains but did not give rise to neuronal colonies. Because astrocyte-conditioned medium alone was not sufficient to support SVZ neurogenesis, direct cell-cell contact between astrocytes and SVZ neuronal precursors may be necessary for the production of type A cells.