Yang WH, Cheng CY, Chen MF, Wang TC (2018) Cell subpopulations overexpressing p75NTR have tumor-initiating properties in the c6 glioma cell line. 38(9):5183-5192. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.12841 PMID: 30194166

Objective: This study is focused on the possible role of p75NTR in glioma tumor initiation.

Summary: Cells with p75NTR overexpression demonstrated certain unique characteristics of tumor-initiating cells, such as neurosphere formation, high colony proliferation, and resistance to radio- and chemotherapy. With regard to the heterogeneous composition of glioma cells, p75NTR can be used as an alternative marker to identify a glioma subpopulation with tumor-initiating properties.

Usage: flow cytometry

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Donnelly CR, Gabreski NA, Suh EB, Chowdhury M, Pierchala BA (2018) Non-canonical Ret signaling augments p75-mediated cell death in developing sympathetic neurons. J Cell Biol 217:327. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201703120 PMID: 30018091

Summary: The authors investigated the interactions of pro-survival and pro-apoptotic receptors in Programmed Cell Death (PCD) using the sympathetic nervous system as a model. They demonstrate that Ret, a receptor tyrosine kinase required for the survival of many neuronal populations, is restricted to a subset of degenerating neurons that rapidly undergo apoptosis.

Usage: Proximity ligation assays (1:500); Western blotting (1:1,000)

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Tools to Study Programmed Cell Death

Kosykh A, Beilin A, Sukhinich K, Vorotelyak E (2018) Postnatal neural crest stem cells from hair follicle interact with nerve tissue in vitro and in vivo. Tissue Cell 54:94-104. doi: 10.1016/j.tice.2018.08.005 PMID: 30309515

Objective: To investigate the interaction between Neural crest stem cells that located in the postnatal hair follicle (HF-NCSC) and a nerve tissue (embryonic and adult).

Summary: HF-NCSC maintain their NC potency in the interaction with the embryonic central nerve system tissue. The migration capacity of the HF NCSC corresponds to the developmental stage but not a type of a nerve tissue present in the co-culture. In contrast, an adult brain interaction changes the HF-NCSC status and reduces the proliferation.

Usage: immunohistochemistry (1:50)

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Matamoros AJ (2018) Microtubule-mediated nerve regeneration: Knocking down the microtubule severing protein fidgetin augments nerve regeneration in vitro and in vivo. Drexel University Thesis.

Objective: To explore the effects of fidgetin knockdown in adult dorsal root ganglia both in vitro and in vivo.

Summary: In vitro: fidgetin knockdown in adult dorsal root ganglia neurons increases a specific domain of microtubule mass responsible for expanding microtubules, increases the length of axons on and off the inhibitory spots, and promotes cellular growth on and across the inhibitory spots. In vivo: fidgetin augments nerve regeneration in vivo, thus highlighting fidgetin as a novel therapeutic target to augment nerve regeneration

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Kim M, Vargas M, Harlan B, Killoy K, Ball L, Comte-Walters S, Gooz M, Yamamoto Y, Beckman J, Barbeito L, Pehar M (2018) Nitration and glycation turn mature NGF into a toxic factor for motor neurons: A role for p75. Antioxid Redox Signal 28:1587-1602. doi: 10.1089/ars.2016.6966 PMID: 28537420

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Sparks NR (2018) The embryotoxic effects of harm reduction tobacco products on osteoblasts developing from human embryonic stem cells. University of California Riverside Thesis.

Objective: To investigate the effect of maternal smoking in the development of embryonic skeleton and the molecular mechanisms involved in skeletal embryotoxicity induced by conventional and harm-reduction tobacco.

Summary: An in vitro model based on human embryonic stem cells was developed, that mimics the development of the human embryo; their differentiation into osteoblasts in vitro can be used to study chemical toxicity and the molecular mechanisms thereof. Tobacco-induced oxidative stress disrupts osteogenic differentiation in human embryonic stem cells.

Usage: Immunocytochemistry

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Motohashi T, Kunisada T (2019) Direct conversion of mouse embryonic fibroblasts into neural crest cells. (eds. Turksen K). In: Skin Stem Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1879:307-321. Humana Press, New York, NY. doi: 10.1007/7651_2018_145 PMID: 29797008

Objective: To describe methods for the direct conversion of mouse embryonic fibroblasts into neural crest cells (NCCs).

Summary: Sox10-IRES-Venus mouse fibroblasts were used for the conversion and isolation of converted NCCs as SOX10-positive cells.

Usage: Immunostaining for Flow Cytometry

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Sun X, Zhu Y, Yin HY, Guo ZY, Xu F, Xiao B, Jiang WL, Guo WM, Meng HY, Lu SB, Wang Y, Peng J (2018) Differentiation of adipose-derived stem cells into Schwann cell-like cells through intermittent induction: potential advantage of cellular transient memory function. Stem Cell Res Ther 9:133. doi: 10.1186/s13287-018-0884-3 PMID: 29751848

Objective: To improve the traditional methods for inducing the differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) into Schwann cell-like cells (SCLCs).

Summary: Results indicated that the intermittent induction method is more efficient than traditional methods for inducing adipose-derived stem cells to differentiate into SCLCs.

Usage: immunofluorescence (1:500)

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Tata A, Kobayashi Y, Chow RD, Tran J, Desai A, Massri AJ, McCord TJ, Gunn MD, Tata PR (2018) Myoepithelial cells of submucosal glands can function as reserve stem cells to regenerate airways after injury. Cell Stem Cell 22:668-683. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2018.03.018 PMID: 29656943

Objective: To show that myoepithelial cells (MECs) of the submucosal glands (SMGs) proliferate and migrate to repopulate the airway surface epithelium (SE) in multiple injury models.

Summary: SMG-like cells appear on the SE of extra-and intra-lobular airways of large animal lungs following severe injury. The transcription factor SOX9 is necessary for MEC plasticity in airway regeneration.

Usage: Immunostaining

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Lynch TJ, Anderson PJ, Rotti PG, Tyler SR, Crooke AK, Choi SH, Montoro DT, Silverman CL, Shahin W, Zhao R, Jensen-Cody CW, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Evans TIA, Xie W, Zhang Y, Mou H, Herring BP, Thorne PS, Rajagopal J, Yeaman C, Parekh KR, Engelhardt JF (2018) Submucosal gland myoepithelial cells are reserve stem cells that can regenerate mouse tracheal epithelium. Cell Stem Cell 22(5):653-667.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2018.03.017 PMID: 29656941

Objective: To investigate whether a lineage relationship exists between two stem cell compartments that contribute to airway repair – basal cells in the surface airway epithelium (SAE) and an unknown submucosal gland (SMG) celltype.

Summary: Using lineage tracing of glandular myoepithelial cells (MECs), they demonstrate that MECs can give rise to seven cell types of the SAE and SMGs following severe airway injury. MECs progressively adopted a basal cell phenotype on the SAE and established asting progenitors capable of further regeneration following reinjury. MECs activate Wnt-regulated transcription factors (Lef-1/TCF7) following injury and Lef-1 induction in cultured MECs promoted transition to a basal cell phenotype. Surprisingly, dose-dependent MEC conditional activation of Lef-1in vivo promoted self-limited airway regeneration in the absence of injury.

Usage: immunofluorescence

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