Forskolin promotes astroglial differentiation of human central neurocytoma cells

ABSTRACT Human central neurocytoma is a kind of the brain tumors that are usually found in anterior part of the lateral ventricles. In this study, we established conditions that allowed

proliferation of neurocytoma cells culture and analyzed characteristics of neurocytoma cells in vitro. For in vitro, a condition that used for culturing neural stem cells and contained basic

fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) provided high proliferation. RT-PCR analaysis showed that nestin was found in neurocytoma cells, indicating that the neurocytomas possess neural stem cell

properties. Interestingly, treatment of neurocytoma cells with forskolin increased expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein with a concomitant decrease in the nestin expression.

Forskolin also induced morphological changes of neurocytoma cells to adopt an astrocyte-like phenotype. The results suggest that neurocyotma cells may have properties of multipotent neural

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differentiation of human central neurocytoma cells. _Exp Mol Med_ 36, 52–56 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/emm.2004.7 Download citation * Published: 01 February 2004 * Issue Date: 01

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* neural stem cell, neuron * protein kinase A