Sentences with phrase «cerebellar cultured cells»
Expression of the α3, α4, and α7 nAChR subunits in cerebellar cultured cells was examined by RT - PCR.
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RIKEN researchers have taken up this challenge, and the work published in Cell Reports details how sequentially applying several signaling molecules to three - dimensional cultures of human embryotic stem cells prompts the cells to differentiate into functioning cerebellar neurons that self - organize to form the proper dorsal / ventral patterning and multi-layer structure found in the natural developing cerebellum.
Electrophysiological recordings of these cells after culture for about 15 weeks revealed proper responses to currents and to inhibition of receptors needed for normal cerebellar signaling, indicating that function had developed along with structure.
Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.
In cerebellar cultures from neonatal rats at postnatal day 1 (P1), approximately 90 % of the total cells were small neurons stained by anti-Tuj1 (neuron specific β3 - tubulin).