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Development ; 144(8): 1566-1577, 2017 04 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28289129

ABSTRACT

Here, we unravel the mechanism of action of the Ikaros family zinc finger protein Helios (He) during the development of striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs). He regulates the second wave of striatal neurogenesis involved in the generation of striatopallidal neurons, which express dopamine 2 receptor and enkephalin. To exert this effect, He is expressed in neural progenitor cells (NPCs) keeping them in the G1/G0 phase of the cell cycle. Thus, a lack of He results in an increase of S-phase entry and S-phase length of NPCs, which in turn impairs striatal neurogenesis and produces an accumulation of the number of cycling NPCs in the germinal zone (GZ), which end up dying at postnatal stages. Therefore, He-/- mice show a reduction in the number of dorso-medial striatal MSNs in the adult that produces deficits in motor skills acquisition. In addition, overexpression of He in NPCs induces misexpression of DARPP-32 when transplanted in mouse striatum. These findings demonstrate that He is involved in the correct development of a subset of striatopallidal MSNs and reveal new cellular mechanisms for neuronal development.


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Corpus Striatum/cytology , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Globus Pallidus/cytology , Neurons/cytology , Neurons/metabolism , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Cell Count , Cell Cycle Checkpoints , Cell Death , Cell Proliferation , Cyclin E/metabolism , G1 Phase , Mice, Knockout , Motor Activity , Neural Stem Cells/cytology , Neural Stem Cells/metabolism , Neurogenesis , Phenotype , S Phase
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Exp Neurol ; 291: 20-35, 2017 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28131724

ABSTRACT

Primary human fetal cells have been used in clinical trials of cell replacement therapy for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's disease (HD). However, human fetal primary cells are scarce and difficult to work with and so a renewable source of cells is sought. Human fetal neural stem cells (hfNSCs) can be generated from human fetal tissue, but little is known about the differences between hfNSCs obtained from different developmental stages and brain areas. In the present work we characterized hfNSCs, grown as neurospheres, obtained from three developmental stages: 4-5, 6-7 and 8-9weeks post conception (wpc) and four brain areas: forebrain, cortex, whole ganglionic eminence (WGE) and cerebellum. We observed that, as fetal brain development proceeds, the number of neural precursors is diminished and post-mitotic cells are increased. In turn, primary cells obtained from older embryos are more sensitive to the dissociation process, their viability is diminished and they present lower proliferation ratios compared to younger embryos. However, independently of the developmental stage of derivation proliferation ratios were very low in all cases. Improvements in the expansion rates were achieved by mechanical, instead of enzymatic, dissociation of neurospheres but not by changes in the seeding densities. Regardless of the developmental stage, neurosphere cultures presented large variability in the viability and proliferation rates during the initial 3-4 passages, but stabilized achieving significant expansion rates at passage 5 to 6. This was true also for all brain regions except cerebellar derived cultures that did not expand. Interestingly, the brain region of hfNSC derivation influences the expansion potential, being forebrain, cortex and WGE derived cells the most expandable compared to cerebellar. Short term expansion partially compromised the regional identity of cortical but not WGE cultures. Nevertheless, both expanded cultures were multipotent and kept the ability to differentiate to region specific mature neuronal phenotypes.


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Cell Differentiation/physiology , Cell Proliferation/physiology , Fetal Stem Cells/cytology , Neural Stem Cells/cytology , Neural Stem Cells/physiology , Analysis of Variance , Brain/cytology , Brain/embryology , Cell Survival , Cells, Cultured , Fetal Stem Cells/physiology , Fetus , Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology , Gestational Age , Humans , Ki-67 Antigen , Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics , Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism , RNA, Messenger/metabolism
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