The inhibiting effect of neural stem cells on proliferation and invasion of glioma cells.

The invasive and infiltrative nature of tumor cells leads to the poor prognosis of glioma. Currently, novel therapeutic means to eliminate the tumor cells without damaging the normal brain tissue are still strongly demanded. Significant attentions had been paid to stem cell-based therapy and neural stem cell (NSC) had been considered as one of the efficient delivery vehicles for targeting therapeutic genes.

Dynamic expression of srGAP2 in cell nuclei and cytoplasm during the differentiation of rat neural stem cells in vitro.

Different SLIT-ROBO Rho GTPase-activating proteins (srGAPs) have different levels of expression and diverse functions during neural development. Although srGAP2 is expressed in developmental brain tissue, little is known about its influence on cellular development of the nervous system. In the current study, dynamic expression of endogenous srGAP2 during neural stem cell/progenitor cell (NSC/NPC) differentiation in vitro was investigated in order to elucidate the association between the dynamic expression of srGAP2 and neural development.