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The research on human neural progenitor cells holds great potential for the understanding of the molecular programs that control differentiation of cells of glial and neuronal lineages, as well as pathogenetic mechanisms of neurological diseases. Stem cell technologies also provide opportunities for the pharmaceutical industry to develop new approaches for regenerative medicine. Here, we describe the protocol for the isolation and maintenance of neural progenitor cells and cortical neurons using human fetal brain tissue. This protocol can be successfully adapted for the preparation of rodent neural and oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. While several methods for isolating neural and oligodendrocyte progenitors from rodent brain tissue have been described, including techniques utilizing gene transfer and magnetic resonance beads, few methods are specifically focused on deriving human oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. Development of the human cultures provides the most physiologically relevant system for investigating mechanisms which regulate the function of oligodendrocytes, specifically of human origin.
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Darbinyan, A., Kaminski, R., White, M.K., Pozniak, P.D., Darbinian, N., Khalili, K. (2021). Isolation and Propagation of Primary Human and Rodent Embryonic Neural Progenitor Cells and Cortical Neurons. In: Amini, S., White, M.K. (eds) Neuronal Cell Culture. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2311. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1437-2_5
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