Example 81
Spontaneous differentiation of human oligodendrocyte/neuron progenitors in 24-well and 96-well plates. Coat plate with 10 μg/ml poly-L-ornithine (Sigma Cat. No. P4957) overnight at room temperature. Remove the poly-L-ornithine solution and rinse the plate with 1×PBS, add 10 μg/ml laminin (Millipore Cat. No. CC095) and incubate at 37° C. for at least 2 hours. Seed cells on the coated plates in expansion media and allowed to attach overnight. The next day expansion media was removed and replaced with freshly prepared spontaneous differentiation media only containing OPC/neuron basal media and N21 media supplement. For 14 day culture, differentiation media was replaced every 3-4 days. Cells were imaged and neurite length was analyzed by IncuCyte S3 Live Cell Analysis System every 4 hours. After 14 days of differentiation, cells were fixed by 4% paraformaldehyde and stained with DAPI and Neuron-specific ß-III tubulin antibody (R&D systems, NL1195R).