PMID: 3756538Jun 1, 1986Paper

Selective culture medium enhances survival of neuroblasts from postnatal rodent brain

Brain Research Bulletin
S F GilbertE Greene

Abstract

One of the major limitations to the study of the development of the nervous system in aneuploid mammalian embryos is that the aneuploid condition is usually lethal in utero. Liveborn aneuploid individuals often succumb rapidly because they have a constellation of malformations incompatible with postnatal survival. We have developed a selective tissue culture medium (D-val) which can be used with fetal calf serum or in a serum-free defined composition and which permits neuroblasts and glioblasts present in postnatal rodent (rat, mouse) brain to proliferate and differentiate in vitro. These cells contain D-amino acid oxidase, but fibroblasts do not. In this medium, fibroblasts cannot grow and are eliminated from the cultures without the use of deleterious compounds such as antimitotic or chemotherapeutic agents. With this medium, cultures containing neuroblasts can be established from normal rat and mouse brain as late as postnatal days 11-20. Cultures with significant numbers of proliferating cells can also be established from perinatal aneuploid mouse embryos, 'rescuing' the cells for further study.

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Aug 1, 1977·Journal of Cellular Physiology·S F Gilbert, B R Migeon
Nov 1, 1978·Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology·M L Oster-Granite, R M Herndon
Oct 1, 1979·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·G S EisenbarthM Nirenberg
Mar 1, 1966·Journal of Neurochemistry·A H NeimsJ D Smilack

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Jun 1, 1986·Brain Research Bulletin·M L Oster-Granite
Jun 1, 1986·Brain Research Bulletin·J D GearhartM L Oster-Granite
Jun 1, 1986·Brain Research Bulletin·R H ReevesJ W Littlefield

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