Method of inducing and maintaining neuronal cells

   
   

The present invention makes available a method for inducing neuronal differentiation and preventing the death or degeneration of neuronal cells both in vitro and in vivo. The subject method stems from the unexpected finding that, contrary to traditional understanding of neural induction, the default fate of ectodermal tissue is neuronal rather than mesodermal and/or epidermal. In particular, it has been discovered that preventing or antagonizing a signaling pathway in a cell for a growth factor of the TGF-.beta. family can result in neuronal differentiation of that cell.

Os makes atuais da invenção disponíveis um método para induzir o differentiation neuronal e impedir a morte ou degeneration de pilhas neuronal em vitro e em vivo. O método do assunto stems do inesperado encontrando isso, contrary à compreensão tradicional da indução neural, o fate do defeito do tecido ectodermal é neuronal melhor que mesodermal e/ou epidermal. No detalhe, descobriu-se que impedir ou antagonizing um pathway sinalizando em uma pilha para um fator do crescimento da família de TGF-.beta. podem resultar no differentiation neuronal dessa pilha.

 
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