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    Valproic acid enhances neuronal differentiation of sympathoadrenal progenitor cells.
        
        Mol. Psychiatry 20, 941–950 (2015)
    
    
    
				The antiepileptic drug valproic acid (VPA) has been shown to influence the neural differentiation and neurite outgrowth of neural stem cells. Sympathoadrenal progenitor cells share properties with neural stem cells and are considered a potential cell source in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The present study therefore aims at modulating the neural differentiation potential of these cells by treatment with the histone deacetylase inhibitor VPA. We studied the epigenetic effects of VPA in two culture conditions: suspension conditions aimed to expand adrenomedullary sympathoadrenal progenitors within free-floating chromospheres and adherent cell cultures optimized to derive neurons. Treatment of chromospheres with VPA may launch neuronal differentiation mechanisms and improve their neurogenic potential upon transplantation. However, also transplantation of differentiated functional neurons could be beneficial. Treating chromospheres for 7 days with clinically relevant concentrations of VPA (2 mm) revealed a decrease of neural progenitor markers Nestin, Notch2 and Sox10. Furthermore, VPA initiated catecholaminergic neuronal differentiation indicated by upregulation of the neuronal marker β-III-tubulin, the dopaminergic transcription factor Pitx3 and the catecholaminergic enzymes TH and GTPCH. In adherent neural differentiation conditions, VPA treatment improved the differentiation of sympathoadrenal progenitor cells into catecholaminergic neurons with significantly elevated levels of nor- and epinephrine. In conclusion, similar to neural stem cells, VPA launches differentiation mechanisms in sympathoadrenal progenitor cells that result in increased generation of functional neurons. Thus, data from this study will be relevant to the potential use of chromaffin progenitors in transplantation therapies of neurodegenerative diseases.
			
			
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        Artikel: Journalartikel
    
 
    
        Dokumenttyp
        Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
    
 
     
    
     
     
    
    
        Sprache
        englisch
    
 
    
        Veröffentlichungsjahr
        2015
    
 
     
    
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        0
    
 
    
    
        ISSN (print) / ISBN
        1359-4184
    
 
    
        e-ISSN
        1476-5578
    
 
     
     
     
	     
	 
	 
    
        Zeitschrift
        Molecular Psychiatry
    
 
		
    
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	    Band: 20,  
	    
	    Seiten: 941–950 
	    
	    
	
    
 
  
         
        
            Verlag
            Nature Publishing Group
        
 
         
	
         
         
         
         
         
	
         
         
         
    
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
    
        Begutachtungsstatus
        Peer reviewed
    
 
    
        Institut(e)
        Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research (IPI)
    
 
     
     
     
     
     	
    
        PubMed ID
        25707399
    
    
    
        Erfassungsdatum
        2015-03-10