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Cultivation of Human Neural Progenitor Cells in a 3-dimensional Self-assembling Peptide Hydrogel
Published on: January 11, 2012
Caught in the matrix: how vitronectin controls neuronal differentiation
1Dept of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. rw.reya@duke.edu
Abstract:
Cerebellar granule cells are the most abundant neurons in the brain and are crucial to the circuitry that controls motor coordination. The proliferation of granule cell precursors (GCPs) is controlled by the secreted signaling molecule Sonic hedgehog (Shh), but the factors that regulate GCP differentiation remain a mystery. A recent study suggests that the extracellular matrix protein vitronectin might tell GCPs when to stop dividing and begin differentiation.
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