Up-regulation effect of bone morphogenetic protein 4 on cholinergic-expression for neurons of embryo rats / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To Observe the adjusting effect of bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) on cholinergic-expression in embryo rats' neurons. Method Neurons isolated from hippocampus and cerebral cortex of 15-20 days gestational age SD rat's brain were cultivated in a DMEM/F12 medium containing Ara-C and identified with morphological characters and microtubulin associated protein 2 (MAP2 ) immunocytochemical test. The medium was replaced with BMP4 96 hours after Ara-C adding, and cultivated another 10 days. The expression of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) of the adjusted cells was observed by immunocytochemical staining and FITC-labeled cholinergic nerve cells Flow Cytometry. Results It has been showed that cultured neurons accorded with the typical morphological characters and the immunologic markers of neurons; the percentage of ChAT-positive cells in BMP4 group was prominently higher than that in control group(13.3?1.37% vs 6.44?0.81%, P