神经干细胞／前体细胞分化的功能学鉴定研究进展

Progress in The Functional Identification of Neural Stem Cell/Neural Precursor Differentiation

神经干细胞/前体细胞分化是神经生物学研究的热点.以往对神经干细胞/前体细胞分化水平的鉴定主要依赖于形态学指标,而随着膜片钳技术的应用,神经干细胞/前体细胞分化过程中膜电特性的改变、离子通道活动等功能学指标越来越受到重视.综述了利用膜片钳技术研究神经干细胞/前体细胞功能分化的最新进展,并对存在的问题做出思考和展望.

The differentiation of neural stem cells/neural precursors （NSCs/NPs） is a hot spot in neurobiological research. It used to identify their differentiation degree only by morphologic appearances. The functional characteristics, such as electrical properties of cellular membrane and ion channel activities, are drawing more and more attention with the development of patch clamp technique. It was summarized the recent progress in the study of NSCs/NPs＇ functional differentiation using patch clamp, some existing problems and research perspectives were suggested.