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In Vitro Differentiation of Human Marrow Stromal Cells into Early Progenitors of Neural Cells by Conditions That Increase Intracellular Cyclic AMP
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In Vitro Differentiation of Human Marrow Stromal Cells into Early Progenitors of Neural Cells by Conditions That Increase Intracellular Cyclic AMP

Weiwen Deng, Maria Obrocka, Itzhak Fischer and Darwin J Prockop
Biochemical and biophysical research communications, v 282(1), pp 148-152
23 Mar 2001
PMID: 11263984

Abstract

cyclic AMP neural cells differentiation IBMX marrow stromal cells
Human marrow stromal cells (hMSCs) are multipotential stem cells that can be differentiated into bone, cartilage, fat, and muscle. In the experiments here, we found that undifferentiated cultures of hMSCs express some markers characteristic of neural cells such as microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP1B), neuron-specific tubulin (TuJ-1), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and vimentin. By treating hMSCs with 0.5 mM isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX)/1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) for 6 days, about 25% of the hMSCs differentiated into cells with a typical neural cell morphology and with increased levels of both NSE and vimentin. The data suggested that the hMSCs may have been differentiated into early progenitors of neural cells in vitro under conditions that increase the intracellular level of cAMP.

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