Cultured neural cells show neural stem/progenitor characteristics.

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posted on 2015-02-06, 06:00 authored by Hongxia Zhang, Bei Shao, Qichuan Zhuge, Peng Wang, Chengcai Zheng, Weilong Huang, Chenqi Yang, Brian Wang, Dong-Ming Su, Kunlin Jin

(a). Neurospheres (about 3 days) derived from fetal forebrain displayed small bright spheres. (b). Expression of neural stem/progenitor, but not mature neural protein markers in culture cells. (c). SOX2-postive cells expressed nestin in vitro.