MilliTrace Constitutive GFP Reporter Adult Rat Hippocampal Neural Stem Cell Kit provides ready-to use primary rat neural stem cells that are constitutively labeled with the humanized mulleri green fluorescent protein (hmGFP) along with expansion medium to help maintain expression of the transgene. hmGFP expression is driven off a constitutive promoter, chicken actin. These stable GFP transfected cells have been FACS sorted to over 95-100% purity.
The constitutive GFP Reporter Adult Rat Hippocampal NSCs display the immunochemical staining properties of NSC; they are Nestin+Sox2+TuJ1-GFAP-. These cells are multipotent. Under defined neuronal differentiation conditions (Rodent Neuron Differentiation Kit, Millipore Cat. No. SCR035), the majority of cells are differentiated to βIII-tubulin positive neurons (GFP+βIII-tubulin+GFAP-). Under defined astrocytic differentiation conditions (Astrocyte Differentiation Medium, Millipore Cat. No. SCM010), majority of cells differentiate to GFAP-positive astrocytes (GFP+GFAP+βIII-tubulin-).