Timing of Wnt Inhibition Modulates Directed Differentiation of Medial Ganglionic Eminence Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Ivanna Ihnatovych, Alexandra Lew, Evelyn Lazar, Anna Sheng, Timot Kellermayer, Kinga Szigeti

“…Here, we report a head-to-head comparison in three distinct experimental models to establish whether Wnt inhibition during neural stem cell, NSC (stage 1), or neural progenitor cell, NPC (stage 2), formation facilitates MGE differentiation. …”
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Three-Dimensional Organoid System Transplantation Technologies in Future Treatment of Central Nervous System Diseases by NaiLi Wei, ZiFang Quan, Hailiang Tang, JianHong Zhu

“…In recent years, scientists have made great achievements in understanding the development of human brain and elucidating critical elements of stepwise spatiotemporal control strategies in neural stem cell specification lineage, which facilitates successful induction of neural organoid in vitro including the cerebral cortex, cerebellar, neural tube, hippocampus cortex, pituitary, and optic cup. …”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neurogenesis and Microglia Activation in the Mouse Brain by Anton Pikhovych, Nina Paloma Stolberg, Lea Jessica Flitsch, Helene Luise Walter, Rudolf Graf, Gereon Rudolf Fink, Michael Schroeter, Maria Adele Rueger

“…Activated microglia in the cerebral cortex and neuroblasts generated in the subventricular zone as the major neural stem cell niche were assessed immunohistochemically. …”
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Electroacupuncture-Regulated miR-34a-3p/PDCD6 Axis Promotes Post-Spinal Cord Injury Recovery in Both In Vitro and In Vivo Settings by Lili Ma, Lizhong Ma, Yu Yang, Ting Chen, Limin Wang, Qilong Deng

“…Our in vitro results showed that miR-34a-3p might promote the in vitro differentiation of neural stem cell (NSC) through suppressing PDCD6 and regulating other important neural markers such as fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1), MAP1/2 (MAP kinase kinases 1/2), myelin basic protein (MBP), βIII-tubulin Class III β-tubulin (βIII tubulin), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). …”
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Radioprotective Effects of Vitis vinifera L. Seed against Radiation-Induced Short-Term Memory Loss in Young Adult Wistar Rats by Ayomide Abe, Fatai Balogun, Olugbenga Ayannuga

“…While dose fractionation, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and neural stem cell transplantation have demonstrated limited effectiveness, natural plant antioxidants offer a promising alternative. …”
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Nestin Forms a Flexible Cytoskeleton by Means of a Huge Tail Domain That Is Reversibly Stretched and Contracted by Weak Forces by Ayana Yamagishi, Rina Tokuoka, Kazuki Imai, Mei Mizusawa, Moe Susaki, Koki Uchida, Saku T. Kijima, Akira Nagasaki, Daijiro Takeshita, Chiaki Yoshikawa, Taro Q. P. Uyeda, Chikashi Nakamura

“…Nestin is a type VI intermediate filament protein and a well-known neural stem cell marker. It is also expressed in high-grade cancer cells, forming copolymerized filaments with vimentin. …”
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Investigating POU3F4 in cancer: Expression patterns, prognostic implications, and functional roles in tumor immunity by Weiwei Chen, Yaya Ji, Rui Wang, Ruijie Ji, Yujian Lin, Yuhang Wu, Lehan Liu, Tianle Sha, Wen Li, Lei Zhang, Longfei Yang, Xinhua Zhang, Jianxiang Song

“…Research has demonstrated that POU3F4 is integral to various cancers, in addition to its significance in inner ear development, pancreatic differentiation, as well as neural stem cell differentiation. Nevertheless, comprehensive pan-cancer analyses focusing on POU3F4 remain limited. …”
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Vascular Transdifferentiation in the CNS: A Focus on Neural and Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells by Sophie Guelfi, Hugues Duffau, Luc Bauchet, Bernard Rothhut, Jean-Philippe Hugnot

“…Transdifferentiation of nontumoral neural stem cells into vascular cells has also been described and conversely vascular cells may generate neural stem cells. …”
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Thy1-YFP: an effective tool for single cell tracing from neuronal progenitors to mature functionally active neurons by Ante Plećaš, Katarina Kapuralin, Leonarda Grandverger, Dinko Mitrečić, Ivan Alić

“…The neural stem cells were isolated from embryos at embryonic day 14.5 as well as newborn pups and differentiated into neurons and astrocytes. …”
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Could Cells from Your Nose Fix Your Heart? Transplantation of Olfactory Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Cardiac Infarction by Cameron McDonald, Alan Mackay-Sim, Denis Crane, Wayne Murrell

“…These cells are propagated as neurosphere cultures, similar to other neural stem cells. Olfactory neurospheres were grown in vitro, dissociated into single cell suspensions, and transplanted into the infarcted hearts of congeneic rats. …”
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Generation of a human induced pluripotent stem cell line (UNIFEi001-A) from a patient with Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) by Mariangela Pappadà, Sara Melija, Martina Facchini, Mara Martino, Sofia Minarini, Anna Caproni, Chiara Nordi, Paola Rimessi, Rita Selvatici, Peggy Marconi

“…These cells can be further differentiated into neural stem cells and neurons to serve as a cellular model.…”
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Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Depressive Disorders, and Antidepressant Therapy by Eleni Paizanis, Michel Hamon, Laurence Lanfumey

“…There is a growing body of evidence that neural stem cells reside in the adult central nervous system where neurogenesis occurs throughout lifespan. …”
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Targeting Adult Neurogenesis for Poststroke Therapy by Jianfei Lu, Anatol Manaenko, Qin Hu

“…Stroke activates neural stem cells (NSCs) in both SVZ and SGZ. This process is regulated by a wide variety of signaling pathways. …”
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Mapping chromatin remodelling in glioblastoma identifies epigenetic regulation of key molecular pathways and novel druggable targets by Claire Vinel, James Boot, Weiwei Jin, Nicola Pomella, Alexandra Hadaway, Charles Mein, Nicolae Radu Zabet, Silvia Marino

“…Results We have leveraged SYNGN, an experimental pipeline enabling the syngeneic comparison of glioblastoma stem cells and expanded potential stem cell (EPSC)-derived neural stem cells to identify regulatory features driven by chromatin remodelling specifically in glioblastoma stem cells. …”
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Multi-omic and single-cell profiling of chromothriptic medulloblastoma reveals genomic and transcriptomic consequences of genome instability by Petr Smirnov, Moritz J. Przybilla, Milena Simovic-Lorenz, R. Gonzalo Parra, Hana Susak, Manasi Ratnaparkhe, John KL. Wong, Verena Körber, Jan-Philipp Mallm, George Philippos, Martin Sill, Thorsten Kolb, Rithu Kumar, Nicola Casiraghi, Konstantin Okonechnikov, David R. Ghasemi, Kendra Korinna Maaß, Kristian W. Pajtler, Anna Jauch, Andrey Korshunov, Thomas Höfer, Marc Zapatka, Stefan M. Pfister, Wolfgang Huber, Oliver Stegle, Aurélie Ernst

“…Here we analyse single-cell genomic and transcriptomic alterations linked with chromothripsis in human p53-deficient medulloblastoma and neural stem cells (n = 9). We reconstruct the order of somatic events, identify early alterations likely linked to chromothripsis and depict the contribution of chromothripsis to malignancy. …”
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Effects of Electroacupuncture at Zusanli and Quchi on Neurological Function Recovery in Rats with Cerebral Infarction by Jiangcong HONG, Yingzheng WANG, Guangwen WU, Yulong ZOU

“…Therefore, the electroacupuncture treatment can also promote the proliferation and migration of neural stem cells but not induce a great change in the differentiation.…”
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Comparative analysis of pediatric SHH medulloblastoma DAOY spheres and adherent monolayers: implications for medulloblastoma research by Jana Klementová, Šárka Jarošová, Irina Danilová, Markéta Farníková, Josef Novotný, Marie Davídková, Martina Zíková

“…Our findings demonstrate that DAOY spheres express markers for both neural stem cells, such as CD133 (PROM1), and differentiated neurons, exemplified by MAP2. …”
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Low-Dose Taxol Promotes Neuronal Axons Extension and Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury by Baoguo Liu, Sumei Liu, Dejun Sun

“…In our study, we systematically investigated the differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) in vitro and functional recovery in injured rats in vivo following Taxol treatment. …”
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The Insulin Regulatory Network in Adult Hippocampus and Pancreatic Endocrine System by Masanao Machida, Shin Fujimaki, Ryo Hidaka, Makoto Asashima, Tomoko Kuwabara

“…Adult neurogenesis from undifferentiated neural stem cells is greatly decreased in diabetic patients, and as a result their learning and memory functions decline. …”
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Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Neuron, Cholinergic, and Glial Cells by Kimia Hosseini, Emilia Lekholm, Aikeremu Ahemaiti, Robert Fredriksson

“…In addition, protocols for differentiation into functional human neural stem cells (hNSCs), which have the potential for further differentiation into various neural cell types, are available. …”
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