Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)

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Developmental Biology

Stable and Efficient Genetic Modification of Cells in the Adult Mouse V-SVZ for the Analysis of Neural Stem Cell Autonomous and Non-autonomous Effects

Eva Porlan¹, Beatriz Martí-Prado^2,3, Antonella Consiglio^4,5, Isabel Fariñas^2,3

¹Cell Division and Cancer Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), ²Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), ³Departmento de Biologìa Celular, Universidad de Valencia, ⁴Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), ⁵Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Fibroblast Reprogramming Unit, University of Brescia

Here we describe a procedure based on the use of lentiviral particles for the long-term genetic modification of neural stem cells and/or their adjacent ependymal cells in the adult ventricular-subventricular neurogenic niche which allows the separate analysis of cell autonomous and non-autonomous, niche-dependent effects on neural stem cells.