Nestin

Mouse nestin is a 206,994 dalton protein (1864 amino acids) expressed in neural crest cells, CNS neural stems cells, as well as a few non-neural cell types in the embryo, including cells within the pancreatic islets of Langerhans and the limb bud. Nestin is an intermediate filament-associated protein, and contributes to the cytoskeleton.

Image: Nestin staining of human week-11 fetal neural progenitor cells. Cells were stained using goat anti-mouse Alexa Fluor 488 secondary antibody (green) (Molecular Probe, A-11001) and counterstained with DAPI (blue).

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Image: Nestin staining of human neural progenitor cells grafted into the rat brain, 24 weeks post-op. One is of processes running along the host corpus callosum, one of cells in the hippocampus, weakly counterstained with human nuclear antigen (brown). Nestin concentration was 1:1000, overnight at room temp, visualised using the DAKO vector SG kit. Courtesy of Dr. Rike Zietlow, Cardiff University

Image: Nestin staining of human glioblastoma cells.

Images: Immunostaining of  STEMEZ(TM) hNP1 Progenitors before and after differentiation. The culture was highly homogenous with neural rosettes. (A) Neural rosettes (white arrows, bright field) from WA09 cells. A similar result also obtained with BG02 cell line. (B) Shown here, a neural rosette stained with Nestin (NES) (green) antibody. Propagated Neural progenitors showed expression of marker genes, NES (C) and Musashi 1 (D) but not SOX2 (E). Further differentiation produced neurons (Tuj1) (F), astrocytes (GFAP) (G) and oligodendrocytes (myelin basic protein)(H) (lower panel). DAPI (blue) was used for staining the nuclei (scale bar for (A) through (E) is 100 mm and for the remaining figures 10 mm). Differentiation (2007) DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2007.00256.x...Dilutions: NES (1:100, Neuromics, Edina, MN), MSI1 (1:100, Neuromics), Tuj1 (1:500, Neuromics)...