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Electrophysiological properties of embryonic stem cell-derived neurons

Risner-Janiczek, Jessica R., Ungless, Mark A. and Li, Meng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-4643 2011. Electrophysiological properties of embryonic stem cell-derived neurons. PLoS ONE 6 (8) , e24169. 10.1371/journal.pone.0024169

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Abstract

In vitro generation of functional neurons from embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem cells offers exciting opportunities for dissecting gene function, disease modelling, and therapeutic drug screening. To realize the potential of stem cells in these biomedical applications, a complete understanding of the cell models of interest is required. While rapid advances have been made in developing the technologies for directed induction of defined neuronal subtypes, most published works focus on the molecular characterization of the derived neural cultures. To characterize the functional properties of these neural cultures, we utilized an ES cell model that gave rise to neurons expressing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and conducted targeted whole-cell electrophysiological recordings from ES cell-derived neurons. Current-clamp recordings revealed that most neurons could fire single overshooting action potentials; in some cases multiple action potentials could be evoked by depolarization, or occurred spontaneously. Voltage-clamp recordings revealed that neurons exhibited neuronal-like currents, including an outward current typical of a delayed rectifier potassium conductance and a fast-activating, fast-inactivating inward current, typical of a sodium conductance. Taken together, these results indicate that ES cell-derived GFP+ neurons in culture display functional neuronal properties even at early stages of differentiation.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Medicine
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Publisher: Public Library of Science
ISSN: 1932-6203
Funders: EU framework 7, MRC
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 08:40
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/63084

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