title: Mouse retinal progenitor cell (RPC) cocultivation with retinal pigment epithelial cell culture affects features of RPC differentiation.
abstract: We provide evidence that coculturing of retinal progenitor cells (RPC) with retinal pigment epithelial cells significantly biases the standard in vitro RPC differentiation patterns. In particular, in cocultivation experiments RPCs lost the ability to differentiate spontaneously and displayed approximately 2.1-2.4-fold increase in immunoreactivity to the neural stem cell marker nestin and approximately 1.6-1.7-fold increase in rod photoreceptor cell rhodopsin marker immunoreactivity. The data suggest the influence of the intercellular interaction networks on RPC differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Kholodenko
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Buzdin
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Kholodenko
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Baibikova
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Sorokin
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Yarygin
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Sverdlov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018920:Coculture Techniques; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000378:metabolism; D007381:Intermediate Filament Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008808:Mice, Inbred CBA; D008858:Microscopy, Phase-Contrast; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D064231:Nestin; D010641:Phenotype; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D006133:Growth Substances; D007381:Intermediate Filament Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C577485:Nes protein, mouse; D064231:Nestin; D014212:Tretinoin; D012243:Rhodopsin