Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11818538›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2002

Cultured rat hippocampal neural progenitors generate spontaneously active neural networks.

Sanjay K Mistry, Edward W Keefer, Bruce A Cunningham, Gerald M Edelman, Kathryn L Crossin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sanjay K MistryDepartment of Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Edward W Keefer
Bruce A Cunningham
Gerald M Edelman
Kathryn L Crossin
Scripps Research Institute · USNeurosciences Institute · US

Funding

CELL-CELL ADHESION AMONG EMBRYONIC CELLSR01HD009635 · NICHD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI EDELMAN, GERALD · 1985 to 2006
$2.6M
CHICK CELL SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS IN EMBRYOGENESISR01HD016550 · NICHD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI CUNNINGHAM, BRUCE A · 1986 to 2004
$1.4M
CELL-CELL ADHESION AMONG EMBRYONIC CELLSR37HD009635 · NICHD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI EDELMAN, GERALD · 1986 to 1996
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NICHD NIH HHS HD09635NICHD NIH HHS HD16550NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD009635NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD016550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously demonstrated that the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) inhibited the proliferation of cultured rat hippocampal progenitor cells and increased the number of neurons generated. We demonstrate here that the continued presence of fibroblast growth factor 2 along with N-CAM or brain-derived neurotrophic factor over 12 days of culture greatly increased the number of both progenitors and neurons. These progenitor-derived neurons expressed neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter receptors, and synaptic proteins in vitro consistent with those expressed in the mature hippocampus. Progenitor cells cultured on microelectrode plates formed elaborate neural networks that exhibited spontaneously generated action potentials after 21 days. This activity was observed only in cultures grown in the presence of fibroblast growth factor 2 and either N-CAM or brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Analysis of neuronal activity after various pharmacological treatments indicated that the networks formed functional GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses. We conclude that mitogenic growth factors can synergize with N-CAM or neurotrophins to generate spontaneously active neural networks from neural progenitors.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsBiomarkersBrain-Derived Neurotrophic FactorCells, CulturedEmbryo, MammalianFibroblast Growth Factor 2HippocampusMicroelectrodesNerve NetNeural Cell Adhesion MoleculesRatsStem CellsTime FactorsBiomarkersBrain-Derived Neurotrophic FactorFibroblast Growth Factor 2Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules

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PMID11818538
PMCPMC122240
OpenAlexW2025273149

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