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Neuroscience

Isolation and Direct Neuronal Reprogramming of Mouse Astrocytes
Bob A. Hersbach 1,2,3, Tatiana Simon 2, Giacomo Masserdotti 1,2
1Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 2Department of Physiological Genomics, Biomedical Center Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians University, 3Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, BioCenter, Ludwig-Maximilians University

Here we describe a detailed protocol to generate highly enriched cultures of astrocytes derived from different regions of the central nervous system of postnatal mice and their direct conversion into functional neurons by the forced expression of transcription factors.

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