In Vitro Maintenance of Multipotent Neural Crest Stem Cells as Crestospheres.

Methods in Molecular Biology
Sofie Mohlin, Laura Kerosuo

Abstract

Neural crest cells are a critical source of many cell types of the vertebrate body. However, as a stem cell population they are peculiar because of the transient nature of their stem cell niche; soon after the multipotent neural crest cells are specified in the neuroepithelium, they become mesenchymal cells that migrate into various destinations in early embryos. These rapid in vivo changes during neural crest development complicate the studies on their stem cell properties. Crestospheres are in vitro maintained primary cultures of premigratory neural crest cells that maintain a mixture of neural crest stem and progenitor cells for weeks without spontaneous differentiation, including the multipotent neural crest stem cells. Here, we describe how crestosphere cultures are initiated from either cranial or trunk levels of chick embryos. Alternatively, the same culture conditions can be used to maintain human embryonic stem cell-derived neural crest cells as crestospheres. Thus, crestospheres provide a useful tool for studies on neural crest stemness.

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