PMID- 18313646 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080801 LR - 20161124 IS - 0006-8993 (Print) IS - 0006-8993 (Linking) VI - 1203 DP - 2008 Apr 8 TI - NGF and BDNF expression drop off in neurally differentiated bone marrow stromal stem cells. PG - 26-31 LID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.086 [doi] AB - Bone marrow stromal stem cells (BMSC) express two neurotrophins nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain derived growth factor (BDNF) constitutively and can be differentiated into neuronal-like cells and used to treat neural injuries and diseases. The neurotrophins are required for repair of neural tissues. However, it is not evident whether these cells supply the sufficient amounts of the functional growth factors following neuronal differentiation. This study investigates the expression of NGF, BDNF and their processing enzymes Prohormone convertases (PC) Furin, PC5 and PC6 by Real-time RT-PCR during neural differentiation of rat BMSC. The results showed that all inspected processing enzymes are expressed in the cells. The expression of NGF, BDNF and PC5 decreases following differentiation. In addition, BMSCs express Survivin, an anti-apoptotic gene; however, the differentiated cells reduce its expression similar to two neurotrophins, which could make them susceptible to apoptotic death. FAU - Yaghoobi, Mohammad Mehdi AU - Yaghoobi MM AD - Department of Biotechnology, Research Institute of Environmental Sciences, International Centre for Science, High Technology & Environmental Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Yaghoobim@icst.ac.ir FAU - Mahani, Masoud Torkzadeh AU - Mahani MT LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20080213 PL - Netherlands TA - Brain Res JT - Brain research JID - 0045503 RN - 0 (Antigens, CD) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Nerve Tissue Proteins) RN - 9061-61-4 (Nerve Growth Factor) RN - EC 3.4.21.- (Proprotein Convertases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Antigens, CD/metabolism MH - Bone Marrow Cells/*cytology/physiology MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - *Cell Differentiation MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Flow Cytometry/methods MH - Gene Expression Regulation/*physiology MH - Nerve Growth Factor/*metabolism MH - Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism MH - Neurons/*physiology MH - Proprotein Convertases/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Stromal Cells/*cytology/physiology EDAT- 2008/03/04 09:00 MHDA- 2008/08/02 09:00 CRDT- 2008/03/04 09:00 PHST- 2007/11/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2007/12/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2008/01/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2008/03/04 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/08/02 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/03/04 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-8993(08)00236-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.086 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Res. 2008 Apr 8;1203:26-31. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.086. Epub 2008 Feb 13.