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Development, Vol 106, Issue 4 665-674, Copyright © 1989 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Mammalian neuronal differentiation: early expression of a neuronal phenotype from mouse neural crest cells in a chemically defined culture medium

S Boisseau and M Simonneau
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire & Moleculaire, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France.

We show that mouse neural crest cells cultured in a serum-deprived chemically defined medium on appropriate culture substrata can be induced to express a neuronal phenotype. The uncommitted neural crest cells express a mesenchymal intermediate filament protein such as vimentin, but not the usual neuronal markers such as receptor sites for tetanus toxin or neurofilaments. In the chemically defined medium, receptor sites for tetanus toxin or neurofilaments can be characterized after a few hours in culture. Furthermore, these cells acquire tetrodotoxin-sensitive voltage-dependent Na+ channels and can generate action potentials. Such an in vitro system should allow us to analyze and manipulate early stages of neuronal differentiation in a mammalian embryo, at a level so far restricted to lower vertebrate embryos.


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