Neural Cell News Volume 17.47 | Nov 29 2023

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    2023-11-29 | NCN 17.47


    Neural Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 17.47 – 29 November, 2023
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    Pregnancy-Responsive Pools of Adult Neural Stem Cells for Transient Neurogenesis in Mothers

    Researchers showed that multiple regionally distinct neural stem cells, including domains that are usually quiescent, are recruited on different gestation days during pregnancy.
    [Science]

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    Stathmin-2 Loss Leads to Neurofilament-Dependent Axonal Collapse Driving Motor and Sensory Denervation

    The authors showed that stathmin-2 had an important role in the establishment and maintenance of neurofilament-dependent axoplasmic organization that is critical for preserving the caliber and conduction velocity of myelinated large-diameter axons.
    [Nature Neuroscience]

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    Layer-by-Layer Polymer Functionalization Improves Nanoparticle Penetration and Glioblastoma Targeting in the Brain

    Scientists investigated the impact of nanoparticle surface chemistry using layer-by-layer assembly to design drug carriers for broad spatial distribution in brain tissue and specific glioblastoma cell targeting.
    [ACS Nano]

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    Disruption of the Autism Gene and Chromatin Regulator KDM5A Alters Hippocampal Cell Identity

    Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, investigators showed that the autism spectrum disorder gene, lysine demethylase 5A (KDM5A), regulated the development of specific subtypes of excitatory and inhibitory neurons.
    [Science Advances]

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    Histone Methylation Mediated by NSD1 Is Required for the Establishment and Maintenance of Neuronal Identities

    Investigators showed that NSD1, the methyltransferase for di-methylated lysine 36 of histone H3, controlled both area and layer identities of the neocortex.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Third-Generation Rabies Viral Vectors Allow Nontoxic Retrograde Targeting of Projection Neurons with Greatly Increased Efficiency

    Researchers introduced third-generation rabies viral vectors, which appearred to be as nontoxic as second-generation ones but have the major advantage of growing to much higher titers, resulting in significantly increased numbers of retrogradely labeled neurons in vivo.
    [Cell Reports Methods]

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    Deriving Early Single-Rosette Brain Organoids from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Investigators developed a human brain organoid technique that generated self-organizing, single-rosette cortical organoids with reproducible size and structure at early timepoints.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    Programming of Neural Progenitors of the Adult Subependymal Zone Towards a Glutamatergic Neuron Lineage by Neurogenin 2

    Retrovirus-mediated expression of Neurog2 induced the glutamatergic lineage markers TBR2 and TBR1 in cultured subependymal zone progenitors, which differentiated into functional glutamatergic neurons.
    [Stem Cell Reports]

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    NOCICEPTRA2.0 – A Comprehensive ncRNA Atlas of Human Native and iPSC-Derived Sensory Neurons

    Investigators created a comprehensive atlas of small ncRNA species during iPSC-derived sensory neuron differentiation. Utilizing iPSC-derived sensory neurons and human dorsal root ganglia RNA sequencing, they unveiled signatures describing developmental processes.
    [iScience]

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    Reduction of Phosphorylated Tau in Alzheimer’s Disease Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neuro-Spheroids by Rho-Associated Coiled-Coil Kinase Inhibitor Fasudil

    Scientists treated 3D neuro-spheroids with fasudil and tested the possible effect on Alzheimer’s disease markers by ELISA, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses.
    [Journal Of Alzheimers Disease]

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    CRISPR/Cas9 Generated PTCHD1 2489T>G Stem Cells Recapitulate Patient Phenotype When Undergoing Neural Induction

    The authors applied CRISPR gene editing and iPSC neural disease modeling to assess the variant. During differentiation from iPSCs to neural progenitors, they detected subtle, but significant gene signatures in synaptic transmission and muscle contraction pathways.
    [HGG Advances]

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    Ketamine and the Neurobiology of Depression: Toward Next-Generation Rapid-Acting Antidepressant Treatments

    Scientists consider what the field has learned from studies of ketamine and to suggest future directions for the optimization of rapid-acting antidepressant treatment.
    [Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Scientists at King’s College London and bit.bio Collaborate to Develop Multi-Cell Models of the Human Brain With Optimised Open-Source Protocols for Use by Any Researcher

    bit.bio, the company coding human cells for novel cures, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London today announce a collaboration to build multi-cell models of the human brain using bit.bio’s ioCells™️.
    [bit.bio (BusinessWire, Inc.)]

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