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Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells Reprogrammed to Become Multipotential CNS Stem Cells
Toru Kondo,*Martin Raff
During animal development, cells become progressively
more restricted in the cell types to which they can give rise. In thecentral nervous system (CNS), for example, multipotential stemcells
produce various kinds of specified precursors that dividea limited
number of times before they terminally differentiateinto either
neurons or glial cells. We show here that certainextracellular signals
can induce oligodendrocyte precursor cellsto revert to multipotential
neural stem cells, which can self-renewand give rise to neurons and
astrocytes, as well as to oligodendrocytes.Thus, these precursor cells
have greater developmental potentialthan previously thought.
Medical Research Council Developmental Neurobiology Programme, MRC
Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and the Biology Department,
University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
t.kondo{at}ucl.ac.uk
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