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Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors similar to adult hippocampal progenitors.

ABSTRACT: Adult neural progenitor cells (aNPC) are a potential autologous cell source for cell replacement in neurologic diseases or for cell-based gene therapy of neurometabolic diseases. Easy accessibility, long-term expandability, and detailed characterization of neural progenitor cell (NPC) properties are important requisites for their future translational/clinical applications. aNPC can be isolated from different regions of the adult human brain, including the accessible subcortical white matter (aNPCWM), but systematic studies comparing long-term expanded aNPCWM with aNPC from neurogenic brain regions are not available. Freshly isolated cells from subcortical white matter and hippocampus expressed oligodendrocyte progenitor cell markers such as A2B5, neuron-glial antigen 2 (NG2), and oligodendrocyte transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) in ?20% of cells but no neural stem cell (NSC) markers such as CD133 (Prominin1), Nestin, SOX2, or PAX6. The epidermal growth factor receptor protein was expressed in 18% of aNPCWM and 7% of hippocampal aNPC (aNPCHIP), but only a small fraction of cells, 1 of 694 cells from white matter and 1 of 1,331 hippocampal cells, was able to generate neurospheres. Studies comparing subcortical aNPCWM with their hippocampal counterparts showed that both NPC types expressed mainly markers of glial origin such as NG2, A2B5, and OLIG2, and the NSC/NPC marker Nestin, but no pericyte markers. Both NPC types were able to produce neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes in amounts comparable to fetal NSC. Whole transcriptome analyses confirmed the strong similarity of aNPCWM to aNPCHIP. Our data show that aNPCWM are multipotent NPC with long-term expandability similar to NPC from hippocampus, making them a more easily accessible source for possible autologous NPC-based treatment strategies.

SUBMITTER: Lojewski X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3973711 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors similar to adult hippocampal progenitors.

Lojewski Xenia X Hermann Andreas A Wegner Florian F Araúzo-Bravo Marcos J MJ Hallmeyer-Elgner Susanne S Kirsch Matthias M Schwarz Johannes J Schöler Hans R HR Storch Alexander A

Stem cells translational medicine 20140220 4

Adult neural progenitor cells (aNPC) are a potential autologous cell source for cell replacement in neurologic diseases or for cell-based gene therapy of neurometabolic diseases. Easy accessibility, long-term expandability, and detailed characterization of neural progenitor cell (NPC) properties are important requisites for their future translational/clinical applications. aNPC can be isolated from different regions of the adult human brain, including the accessible subcortical white matter (aNP ...[more]

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Project description:Adult neural progenitor cells (aNPCs) are a potential autologous cell source for cell replacement in neurologic diseases such as Parkinson’s disease or stroke or for cell-based gene therapy for neurometabolic diseases. Easy accessibility, long-term expandability and detailed characterization of NPC properties are important requisites for their future translational/clinical applications. aNPC can be isolated from different regions of the adult human brain including the accessible subcortical white matter (aNPCWM), but systematic studies comparing long-term expanded aNPCWM with aNPC from neurogenic brain regions to check for their NPC characteristics and performance are not available. Freshly isolated cells from subcortical white matter and hippocampus (aNPCHIP) expressed oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) markers such as A2B5, NG2 and OLIG2 in ~20% of cells but no neural stem cell (NSC) markers such CD133 (Prominin1), NESTIN, SOX2 or PAX6. The EGF receptor (EGFR) protein was expressed in 18% of aNPCWM and 7% of aNPCHIP, but only a small fraction of 1 cell out 694 cells from white matter and only 1 out of 1,331 hippocampal cells were able to generate neurospheres. Studies comparing subcortical aNPCWM with their hippocampal counterparts showed that both NPC types expressed mainly markers of glial origin such as NG2, A2B5 and OLIG2, and the NSC/NPC marker Nestin, but no pericyte markers. Both NPC types were able to produce fully mature neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in comparable amounts to fetal NSC. Whole transcriptome analyses finally confirmed the strong similarity of aNPCWM with aNPCHIP. Our data show that aNPCWM are multipotent NPC with long-term expandability capacity similar to NPC from hippocampus making them an easily accessible source for possible autologous NPC-based treatment strategies. Isolation and propagation of multipotent NPCs. Adult human hippocampal (hip) and subcortical white matter (wm) tissue was obtained from routine epilepsy surgery procedures following informed consent of the subjects. All procedures were in accordance with the Helsinki convention and approved by the Ethical Committee of the University of Dresden (No. 47032006). All subjects underwent high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging excluding tumors and were screened for the presence of infectious disease. In all cases the neuropathological examinations did not reveal evidences for tumor formation. Gene expression Single-channel oligonucleotide microarray analysis. For the gene expression microarray analysis we used the Affimetrix U133A chips containing 22.215 probe sets representing at least 12.905 individual genes. The whole procedure was performed following the manufacturer’s standard protocol (Affimetrix, Santa Clara, CA). For the data processing, normalization was calculated with the GCRMA (GC content corrected Robust Multi-array Analysis) algorithm.

Project description:Adult neural progenitor cells (aNPCs) are a potential autologous cell source for cell replacement in neurologic diseases such as Parkinsonâs disease or stroke or for cell-based gene therapy for neurometabolic diseases. Easy accessibility, long-term expandability and detailed characterization of NPC properties are important requisites for their future translational/clinical applications. aNPC can be isolated from different regions of the adult human brain including the accessible subcortical white matter (aNPCWM), but systematic studies comparing long-term expanded aNPCWM with aNPC from neurogenic brain regions to check for their NPC characteristics and performance are not available. Freshly isolated cells from subcortical white matter and hippocampus (aNPCHIP) expressed oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) markers such as A2B5, NG2 and OLIG2 in ~20% of cells but no neural stem cell (NSC) markers such CD133 (Prominin1), NESTIN, SOX2 or PAX6. The EGF receptor (EGFR) protein was expressed in 18% of aNPCWM and 7% of aNPCHIP, but only a small fraction of 1 cell out 694 cells from white matter and only 1 out of 1,331 hippocampal cells were able to generate neurospheres. Studies comparing subcortical aNPCWM with their hippocampal counterparts showed that both NPC types expressed mainly markers of glial origin such as NG2, A2B5 and OLIG2, and the NSC/NPC marker Nestin, but no pericyte markers. Both NPC types were able to produce fully mature neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in comparable amounts to fetal NSC. Whole transcriptome analyses finally confirmed the strong similarity of aNPCWM with aNPCHIP. Our data show that aNPCWM are multipotent NPC with long-term expandability capacity similar to NPC from hippocampus making them an easily accessible source for possible autologous NPC-based treatment strategies. Isolation and propagation of multipotent NPCs. Adult human hippocampal (hip) and subcortical white matter (wm) tissue was obtained from routine epilepsy surgery procedures following informed consent of the subjects. All procedures were in accordance with the Helsinki convention and approved by the Ethical Committee of the University of Dresden (No. 47032006). All subjects underwent high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging excluding tumors and were screened for the presence of infectious disease. In all cases the neuropathological examinations did not reveal evidences for tumor formation. Gene expression Single-channel oligonucleotide microarray analysis. For the gene expression microarray analysis we used the Affimetrix U133A chips containing 22.215 probe sets representing at least 12.905 individual genes. The whole procedure was performed following the manufacturerâs standard protocol (Affimetrix, Santa Clara, CA). For the data processing, normalization was calculated with the GCRMA (GC content corrected Robust Multi-array Analysis) algorithm. fNSC: Human fetal neural stem cells, 2 biological rep aNPChip: Human adult neural progenitor cells isolated from hippocampus, 3 biological rep aNPCwm: Human adult neural progenitor cells isolated from white matter, 2 biological rep

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Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors similar to adult hippocampal progenitors.

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Human adult white matter progenitor cells are multipotent neuroprogenitors similar to adult hippocampal progenitors.

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