title: Differentiation of glioblasts from adult brain.
abstract: Rat glial (RG) cells have established in continuous culture using sections of kainic acid-lesioned rat striata as the primary cell source. Such cultures consistently provided at least 2 morphologically distinguishable cell types. More than 95% of this population was composed of large, flat cells which possessed ill-defined junctions and lacked cellular processes. The second class of cells comprised less than 5% of the population, was smaller and had several processes per cell. Dibutyryl cyclic-AMP (dB-cAMP), which has been shown to promote a maturation-stimulating effect on embryonic glioblasts in vitro, appears to have a similar effect on RG cells. In the presence of 1 mM dB-cAMP virtually all RG cells undergo morphological transformation, becoming smaller and denser, in addition to forming several processes per cell. Furthermore, two cell-type-specific markers could be detected in dB-cAMP-treated cultures: the surface oligodendrocyte-specific galactocerebroside (GC) moiety was demonstrated to be present on less than 10% of the cells, whereas the intracellular astrocyte-specific glial fibrillary acidic (GFA) protein could be readily detected in 80% of the population. These data indicate that glia derived from the striata of injured adult rat brain exhibit fetal characteristics.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003994:Bucladesine / Q000494:pharmacology; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000166:cytology; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D003994:Bucladesine