title: Neural stem/progenitor cells from the adult human spinal cord are multipotent and self-renewing and differentiate after transplantation.
abstract: Neural stem/progenitor cell (NSPC) transplantation is a promising therapy for spinal cord injury (SCI). However, little is known about NSPC from the adult human spinal cord as a donor source. We demonstrate for the first time that multipotent and self-renewing NSPC can be cultured, passaged and transplanted from the adult human spinal cord of organ transplant donors. Adult human spinal cord NSPC require an adherent substrate for selection and expansion in EGF (epidermal growth factor) and FGF2 (fibroblast growth factor) enriched medium. NSPC as an adherent monolayer can be passaged for at least 9 months and form neurospheres when plated in suspension culture. In EGF/FGF2 culture, NSPC proliferate and primarily express nestin and Sox2, and low levels of markers for differentiating cells. Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) promotes NSPC proliferation and significantly enhances GFAP expression in hypoxia. In differentiating conditions in the presence of serum, these NSPC show multipotentiality, expressing markers of neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) significantly enhances neuronal differentiation. We transplanted the multipotent NSPC into SCI rats and show that the xenografts survive, are post-mitotic, and retain the capacity to differentiate into neurons and glia.Together, these findings reveal that multipotent self-renewing NSPC cultured and passaged from adult human spinal cords of organ transplant donors, respond to exogenous factors that promote selective differentiation, and survive and differentiate after transplantation into the injured spinal cord.
authors.affiliation: Division of Genetics and Development, Toronto Western Research Institute and Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. amothe@uhnres.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Andrea J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mothe
authors.forename: Tasneem
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zahir
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Santaguida
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tator
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D039902:Multipotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D058953:Neural Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000166:cytology*
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