Neural Cell News

[Stem Cells Translational Medicine] The authors discuss recent findings on the complex nature of MSCs, focusing on their elusive impact on glioblastoma progression and aggressiveness by direct cell‐cell interaction and via secretome, also facing the perspectives and challenges in treatment strategies.

[Stem Cell Reports] Scientists generated human iPSC-derived neurons exhibiting spontaneous oscillatory activity after cultivation of up to six months, which resembled early oscillations observed in rodent neurons. This behavior was found in neurons generated using a more “native” embryoid body protocol, in contrast to a “fast” protocol based on NGN2 overexpression.

[NPJ Regenerative Medicine] Scientists demonstrated that grafts based on porous collagen-based scaffolds, similar to biomaterials utilized clinically in induced regeneration, could deliver and protect embryonic neural stem cells at spinal cord injury (SCI) sites, leading to significant improvement in locomotion recovery in an experimental mouse SCI model.

[Microvascular Research] Conditioned medium (CM) from Radial Glia (RG) control cultures increased ZO-1 protein levels and organization on endothelial bEnd.3 cells membranes, which was impaired by CM from infected RG, accompanied by decreased trans-endothelial electrical resistance.

[Scientific Reports] Researchers used electrophysiological studies in brain slices and structural analysis of post-mortem tissues obtained from animals exposed to endothelium-derived amyloids. The amyloids were administered via three different routes, by intracerebroventricular, intratracheal, and intraperitoneal injections.

[Nature Cell Biology] The authors showed that neural-specific depletion of three members of the non-specific lethal chromatin complex—Mof, Kansl2 or Kansl3—unexpectedly led to severe vascular defects and brain hemorrhaging.