Study for regulating mechanism of mesenchymal cells differentiation

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We investigated the interactions of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) and neurotrophin 4 (NT-4) in the mouse mesenchymal cells.We showed that exogenously added GM3 (monosialoganglioside) and LacCer (lactosylceramide) suppressed the proliferation of mouse mesenchymal cells by BrdU incorporation assay, and that dental mesenchymal cell proliferation activities were significantly disturbed when NT-4 was added to the culture medium with GM3. We revealed that NT-4 increased expression of DSPP in the mouse mesenchymal cells by RT-PCR and those expression levels were enhanced when NT-4 was added to the culture medium with GM3 or LacCer. These results suggested that NT-4 might cooperate with GSLs on cell surface and regulate the differentiation. we examined the expression patterns of TrkB (TrkB can exist as alternatively truncated TrkB splice variants) on mouse mesenchymal cells by immunohistochemistry, and revealed that full-length TrkB were expressed, while truncated TrkB were absent.