Migration and Multipotentiality of PSA-NCAM+ Neural Precursors Transplanted in the Developing Brain

Author： Vitry S. Avellana-Adalid V. Lachapelle F. Baron-van Evercooren A.

ISSN： 1044-7431

Source： Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Vol.17, Iss.6, 2001-06, pp. : 983-1000

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Abstract

By optimizing the previously described strategy for obtention of spheres enriched in PSA-NCAM+ precursors, we prepared PSA-NCAM-immunoselected cell populations from cerebral hemispheres of neonatal MBP-LacZ transgenic mice. These cells expressed Nestin, exhibited clonal expansion potential and formed spheres, which were initially enriched in PSA-NCAM+ cells but became enriched in GD3+ oligodendrocyte progenitors after 1 week in B104 contionned medium. One month after their periventricular transplantation into the brain of wild-type and/or shiverer newborn mice, cells from PSA-NCAM+ spheres exhibited a higher rostral migration potential than cells from GD3+ spheres, and clearly contributed to myelination in the olfactory bulb. In shiverer hosts, both sphere populations generated oligodendrocytes with similar myelination potential. In addition PSA-NCAM+ sphere cells generated GFAP+ astrocytes and NeuN+ neurons, depending on their site of insertion. These results evidence the high plasticity of newborn PSA-NCAM+ neural precursors and suggest that they are promising tools for cell therapy of CNS diseases, including myelin disorders.