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![]() | A streamlined path to neural differentiation
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"In this study, we report a highly efficient serum-free pluripotent stem cell neural induction medium that can induce hPSCs into primitive NSCs (pNSCs) in 7 days, obviating the need for time-consuming, laborious embryoid body generation or rosette picking."
—Publication referencing PSC Neural Induction Medium; Stem Cells Transl Med. 2013 Dec;2(12):1022.
A simple protocol is used to initiate PSC induction to neural stem cells in only 7 days.
The protocol can be viewed on left and includes:
Figure 1. Unlike existing methodologies, Gibco PSC Neural Induction Medium does not require the intermediary step of embryoid body (EB) formation which adds time, labor, and variability.
Figure 2. 80-90% neural induction efficiency.
Figure 3. Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) generated using the Gibco PSC Neural Induction Medium have high expression of NSC markers and can be further differentiated into other neural cell types.
Figure 4. NSC differentiation gene expression profile (A): Expression of NSC-related genes and default regional identity of the sample population shown by a gene expression heat map generated by the R software. NSCs from pluripotent stem cell (PSC) origin expressed most of the NSC-related genes that are also expressed by fNSCs. Primitive NSCs expressed genes related to ventral hindbrain as in default. The gene expression data are log2 transformed. (B): Expression of select non-neural genes and identity of the sample population shown by gene expression heat map. NSCs from PSCs at passage 0 (P0) (pNSCp0) and expanded NSCs to P6 (pNSCp6), rdNSCs, and human fNSCs are included for comparison. The gene expression data are normalized (i.e., all genes have a mean of 0 and an SD of 1). Abbreviations: fNSC, fetal cortex-derived neural stem cell; NSC, neural stem cell; pNSCp0, NSCs on differentiation day 7 in neural induction medium; pNSCp6, pNSCp0 passaged six times; rdNSC, rosette-derived neural stem cell.
Go from pluripotent stem cells to neurons in three easy steps:
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