Stimulating Nerve Stem Cell Differentiation Using Cold Atmospheric Plasma Treatment

0 weergaven • 2:20 min. • July 8th, 2025

Begin with nerve stem cells cultured on an extracellular matrix-coated coverslip in a suitable differentiation medium.

Take a syringe containing a cold plasma, which is a state of matter containing various reactive components, including UV radiation and charged particles.

Position the nozzle of the plasma syringe at a specific height above the nerve cell culture.

Start the plasma jet.

The plasma interacts with the nerve stem cells, activating them.

Remove the old culture medium. Add a fresh culture medium and incubate.

Over time, the activated nerve stem cells produce projections.

Discard the medium.

Under an inverted phase contrast light microscope, the presence of elongated projections on the cells, resembling those found in a nerve cell, indicates differentiation.

To plasma-treat treat the neural stem cells, set the distance between the syringe nozzle and the first well of cells to 15 millimeters. Replace the supernatants in the neural stem cell cultures with 800 microliters of fresh differentiation medium, and place the plate under the plasma jets.

Making sure that the syringe nozzle is fixed over the center of each well, create three wells with plasma for 60 seconds per treatm

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