Hippocampal neural stem/progenitor cells (hipp-NS/PCs) of the adult mammalian brain are important sources of neuronal and gial cell production. In this study, the main goal is to investigate the plasticity of these cells in neuronal/astroglial differentiations. To this end, the differentiation of the hipp-NS/PCs isolated from 3-month-old Wistar rats was investigated in response to the embryonic...

neural stem cells (nscs) as a heterogeneous multipotent and self- renewal population are found in different areas in the developing mammalian nervous system, as well as the sub-ventricular zone (svz) and the hippocampus of the adult brain. nscs can give rise to neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. the aim of this study was to differentiate neural stem cells into noradrenergic–like cells in...

background: the aim of this study was to produce a stable cho cell line expressing tenecteplase. materials and methods: in the first step, the tenecteplase coding sequence was cloned in a pdb2 vector containing attb recognition sites for the phage φc31 integrase. then, using lipofection, the cho cells were co-transfected with constructed recombinant plasmid encoding tenecteplase and attb recogn...

Collagen-based hydrogels are widely used for three-dimensional (3D) culture of mammalian cells because their high cell-activating characteristis. However, techniques preparing cell-embedding collagen with micrometer-size precision in perfusable, microfluidic devices have not been fully developed. In this study, we propose a facile strategy enabling microfabrication devices. We phosphate particl...

background: in the field of mammalian embryo culture, the putative influence of autocrine/ paracrine factor(s), produce by the embryos itself, is under investigation. a smaller medium drop can prevent dilution of this factor(s). objective: the objective of this study was to examine the effect of culture medium volume on in vitro development of mouse 2-cell embryos. materials and methods: the em...