Journal: Life
Article Title: Neurogenic Stem Cell Niche in the Auditory Thalamus: In Vitro Evidence of Neural Stem Cells in the Rat Medial Geniculate Body
doi: 10.3390/life13051188
Figure Lengend Snippet: The expression of neural stem cell markers in neurospheres from cells of the PND 8 MGB. ( a – d ) Cells inside the neurospheres and cells emigrating from the spheres were stained positively for the neural progenitor cell marker nestin (red); cell nuclei were stained blue with DAPI. ( a ) The nuclei of cells inside the sphere and its branches showed positive labeling for the transcription factor ATOH1 (green). ( b ) The cytoplasm of the out-migrating cells and those inside the neurospheres were stained with the neural migration protein DCX (green). ( c ) The neural stem cell marker Musashi-1 (green) was positive in the cytoplasm of cells within the neurospheres and their branches. ( d ) The nuclei in the neurospheres and their branches showed positive labeling for the transcription factor Sox-2 (green).
Article Snippet: Incubation with the following primary antibodies were performed for immunocytochemical assays at 5 °C for 12 h in 1% BSA solution and 0.1 M PBS buffer: mouse monoclonal antibody against ATOH1 (1:1000; Ab27667-Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA), mouse monoclonal against β-tubulin (1:1000; #TS293—Sigma-Aldrich ® , Merck ® , St. Louis, MO, USA), mouse monoclonal versus β-III-tubulin (1:1000; #Ab7751—Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA), rabbit polyclonal versus β-III-tubulin (1:2000; #Ab18207—Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA), rabbit polyclonal against double cortin (DCX) (1:1000; #Ab18723—Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA), mouse monoclonal protein against glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) (1:1000; #MAB360—Merck Millipore ® , Billerica, MA, USA), rabbit polyclonal against myelin basic protein (MBP) (1:800; #M3821—Sigma-Aldrich ® , Merck ® , St. Louis, MO, USA), rabbit polyclonal versus Musashi-1 (1:100, Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA), mouse monoclonal protein versus nestin (1:800; #MAB353—Merck Millipore ® , Billerica, MA, USA), and rabbit polyclonal versus Sox-2 (1:2000; #Ab97959—Abcam ® , Waltham, MA, USA).
Techniques: Expressing, Staining, Marker, Labeling, Migration