Journal: Toxicology
Article Title: Effects of all- trans and 9- cis retinoic acid on differentiating human neural stem cells in vitro
doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2023.153461
Figure Lengend Snippet: Western blot detection and relative quantification of neurodifferentiation biomarkers upon exposure to retinoids for 18 d (DIV22). Data represent log 2 fold-change values relative to time-matched solvent control (SC). Housekeeping protein β actin was used for normalization (not shown). a) marker for NSCs, b) early neural marker, c) marker of dopaminergic neurons (TH = tyrosine hydroxylase), d) early astroglial marker, e) marker of astrocytes. Further studied proteins, their relative intensity, as well as the detection of selected markers on DIV13, are listed in . Further information on the studied markers and the respective antibodies and dilutions used are listed in . DIV4: non-differentiated sample collected on DIV4 before exposure commenced, diff: time-matched sample differentiated by growth factors BDNF and GDNF, atRA: all-trans retinoic acid, 9cRA: 9-cis retinoic acid, TH: tyrosine hydroxylase. * p < 0.05, * * p < 0.01, # p < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: Non-cytotoxic concentrations (8, 40, 200, 1000 nM) of two retinoids, atRA (cat. no. R250200, Toronto Research Chemicals, Toronto, ON, Canada), and 9cRA (cat. no. R245015, Toronto Research Chemicals, Toronto, ON, Canada) were used alongside two negative controls (“non-differentiated” cells kept in NSC maintenance medium containing bFGF and “naïve”/non-treated cells cultured in naïve medium) and a growth factor-induced differentiation-positive control (“differentiated”; cultured in naïve medium supplemented with BDNF and GDNF; see also , ).
Techniques: Western Blot, Solvent, Control, Marker