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Neonatal Subventricular Zone Electroporation
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2013
We demonstrate a minimally invasive technique referred to as neonatal subventricular zone electroporation. The technique consists of injecting plasmid DNA into the lateral ventricles of neonatal pups and applying electrical current to deliver and genetically manipulate neural stem...
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Preparation of Acute Subventricular Zone Slices for Calcium Imaging
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2012
A method to load subventricular zone (SVZ) cells with calcium indicator dyes for recording calcium activity is described. The postnatal SVZ contains tightly packed cells including neural progenitor cells and neuroblasts. Rather than using bath loading we injected the dye by pressure inside the tissue allowing better dye diffusion.
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The Subventricular Zone En-face: Wholemount Staining and Ependymal Flow
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2010
The lateral ventricle walls contain the largest germinal region in the adult mammalian brain. Traditionally, studies on neurogenesis in this region have relied on classical sectioning techniques for histological analysis. Here we present an alternative approach, the wholemount technique, which provides a comprehensive, en-face view of this germinal region.
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Cell Sorting of Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells from the Adult Mouse Subventricular Zone and Live-imaging of their Cell Cycle Dynamics
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2015
We report a Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)-based method to isolate neural stem cells (NSCs) and their progeny from the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the adult mouse brain. Applied to Fluorescence Ubiquitination Cell Cycle Indicator (FUCCI) transgenic mice, it allows the study of cell cycle progression by live imaging.
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Delivery of In Vivo Acute Intermittent Hypoxia in Neonatal Rodents to Prime Subventricular Zone-derived Neural Progenitor Cell Cultures
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2015
This article describes the methodology for administering short periods of intermittent hypoxia to postnatal day 1-8 mouse or rat pups. This approach effectively elicits a robust tissue level “priming effect” on cultured neural progenitor cells that are harvested within 30 min of hypoxia exposure.
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Radial glia-like stem cells act at the beginning of a cellular sequence. They generate rapidly dividing progenitors, which then give rise to neuroblasts. This organization separates the maintenance of a stem-cell population from the expansion and progression of its descendants. Studying these stages helps biologists examine how neural cell production is regulated rather than treating neurogenesis as a single event.
Local signals from neighboring cells help regulate the behavior of cells within the niche, including the progression of progenitors and neuroblasts. These signals provide context for when cells divide, develop, and move through the neural lineage. Their importance makes the SVZ useful for investigating how interactions between cells shape neurogenesis and influence the outcome of neural development.
The ventricular environment forms part of the local setting in which stem cells, progenitors, and neuroblasts develop. Because cellular development and movement are regulated by this environment together with nearby cells, changes in the niche can affect how the lineage proceeds. Examining this relationship helps clarify how tissue organization supports neural cell production during development and adulthood.
Studying the Subventricular Zone across development and adulthood can reveal how neural cell production changes over time. The same general cellular sequence can be examined in different biological contexts, including the generation of new cells and the regulation of their movement. This comparison helps distinguish principles that persist from those associated with a particular stage of nervous-system development.
SVZ research provides a way to examine how neural stem and progenitor cells respond within a specialized brain niche. In studies of brain injury and neurodegenerative disease, researchers can use this system to investigate neural repair-related processes and the regulation of newly generated cells. The resulting knowledge may clarify how endogenous neurogenesis relates to tissue responses after damage or disease.
Investigations of the Subventricular Zone address how the nervous system generates new cells, coordinates their development, and regulates their movement. These questions connect basic biology with neural plasticity, meaning the nervous system's capacity for change, as well as potential regenerative therapies. The SVZ therefore serves as a context for linking cellular mechanisms to repair-oriented research without assuming that regeneration is already clinically established.