Volume 16 Issue 7, July 2011

Human embryonic hippocampal progenitor cells (HPC03A/07) as an in vitro model for human hippocampal neurogenesis. HPC03A/07 cells differentiate into distinct populations of MAP2-positive neurons (green, left panel) and S100β-positive astrocytes (red, left panel). Immature, GFAP-positive cells (red, right panel) do not co-localize with mature, MAP2-positive neurons (green, right panel). Cell nuclei are stained with Hoechst 33342 dye (blue). For more info on this topic, please refer to the article by Anacker et al on pages 738–750.