Searching across hundreds of databases

Our searching services are busy right now. Your search will reload in five seconds.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

X
Forgot Password

If you have forgotten your password you can enter your email here and get a temporary password sent to your email.

Quiescence Modulates Stem Cell Maintenance and Regenerative Capacity in the Aging Brain.

Cell | 2019

The function of somatic stem cells declines with age. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of this decline is key to counteract age-related disease. Here, we report a dramatic drop in the neural stem cells (NSCs) number in the aging murine brain. We find that this smaller stem cell reservoir is protected from full depletion by an increase in quiescence that makes old NSCs more resistant to regenerate the injured brain. Once activated, however, young and old NSCs show similar proliferation and differentiation capacity. Single-cell transcriptomics of NSCs indicate that aging changes NSCs minimally. In the aging brain, niche-derived inflammatory signals and the Wnt antagonist sFRP5 induce quiescence. Indeed, intervention to neutralize them increases activation of old NSCs during homeostasis and following injury. Our study identifies quiescence as a key feature of old NSCs imposed by the niche and uncovers ways to activate NSCs to repair the aging brain.

Pubmed ID: 30827680 RIS Download

Additional research tools detected in this publication

Antibodies used in this publication

Associated grants

  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/N026063/1

Publication data is provided by the National Library of Medicine ® and PubMed ®. Data is retrieved from PubMed ® on a weekly schedule. For terms and conditions see the National Library of Medicine Terms and Conditions.

This is a list of tools and resources that we have found mentioned in this publication.


SAM format (tool)

RRID:SCR_012093

A generic alignment format for storing read alignments against reference sequences, supporting short and long reads (up to 128 Mbp) produced by different sequencing platforms.

View all literature mentions

New England Biolabs (tool)

RRID:SCR_013517

An Antibody supplier

View all literature mentions

STAR (tool)

RRID:SCR_004463

Software performing alignment of high-throughput RNA-seq data. Aligns RNA-seq reads to reference genome using uncompressed suffix arrays.

View all literature mentions

Anti-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) (antibody)

RRID:AB_2109645

This polyclonal targets Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP)

View all literature mentions

Anti-GLAST (ACSA-1)-PE, human, mouse, rat (antibody)

RRID:AB_2660782

This monoclonal targets GLAST (ACSA-1)

View all literature mentions

Anti-NG2 Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan (antibody)

RRID:AB_11213678

This polyclonal targets NG2 Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan

View all literature mentions

Sox-2 (Y-17) Antibody (antibody)

RRID:AB_2286684

This polyclonal targets SOX2

View all literature mentions

Anti-Green Fluorescent Protein Antibody (antibody)

RRID:AB_10000240

This polyclonal targets Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

View all literature mentions

B6.129X1-Gt(ROSA)26Sortm1(EYFP)Cos/J (organism)

RRID:IMSR_JAX:006148

Mus musculus with name B6.129X1-Gt(ROSA)26Sortm1(EYFP)Cos/J from IMSR.

View all literature mentions

Monocle2 (software resource)

RRID:SCR_016339

Software package for analyzing single cell gene expression, classifying and counting cells, performing differential expression analysis between subpopulations of cells, and reconstructing cellular trajcectories. Works well with very large single-cell RNA-Seq experiments containing tens of thousands of cells or more. Used in computational analysis of gene expression data in single cell gene expression studies to profile transcriptional regulation in complex biological processes and highly heterogeneous cell populations.

View all literature mentions

pheatmap (software resource)

RRID:SCR_016418

Software tool as a function in R to draw clustered heatmaps for better control over graphical parameters.

View all literature mentions

Seurat (software resource)

RRID:SCR_016341

Software as R package designed for QC, analysis, and exploration of single cell RNA-seq data. Enable users to identify and interpret sources of heterogeneity from single cell transcriptomic measurements, and to integrate diverse types of single cell data.

View all literature mentions

DESeq2 (software resource)

RRID:SCR_015687

Software package for differential gene expression analysis based on the negative binomial distribution. Used for analyzing RNA-seq data for differential analysis of count data, using shrinkage estimation for dispersions and fold changes to improve stability and interpretability of estimates.

View all literature mentions

HTSeq (software resource)

RRID:SCR_005514

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software Python package that provides infrastructure to process data from high-throughput sequencing assays. While the main purpose of HTSeq is to allow you to write your own analysis scripts, customized to your needs, there are also a couple of stand-alone scripts for common tasks that can be used without any Python knowledge.

View all literature mentions

Picard (software toolkit)

RRID:SCR_006525

Java toolset for working with next generation sequencing data in the BAM format.

View all literature mentions

Integrative Genomics Viewer (software resource)

RRID:SCR_011793

A high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets.

View all literature mentions

STAR (software resource)

RRID:SCR_015899

Software performing alignment of high-throughput RNA-seq data. Aligns RNA-seq reads to reference genome using uncompressed suffix arrays.

View all literature mentions

R Project for Statistical Computing (software resource)

RRID:SCR_001905

Software environment and programming language for statistical computing and graphics. R is integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. Can be extended via packages. Some packages are supplied with the R distribution and more are available through CRAN family.It compiles and runs on wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.

View all literature mentions

FastQC (software resource)

RRID:SCR_014583

Quality control software that perform checks on raw sequence data coming from high throughput sequencing pipelines. This software also provides a modular set of analyses which can give a quick impression of the quality of the data prior to further analysis.

View all literature mentions

SAMTOOLS (software resource)

RRID:SCR_002105

Original SAMTOOLS package has been split into three separate repositories including Samtools, BCFtools and HTSlib. Samtools for manipulating next generation sequencing data used for reading, writing, editing, indexing,viewing nucleotide alignments in SAM,BAM,CRAM format. BCFtools used for reading, writing BCF2,VCF, gVCF files and calling, filtering, summarising SNP and short indel sequence variants. HTSlib used for reading, writing high throughput sequencing data.

View all literature mentions

GraphPad Prism (software resource)

RRID:SCR_002798

Statistical analysis software that combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. Designed for biological research applications in pharmacology, physiology, and other biological fields for data analysis, hypothesis testing, and modeling.

View all literature mentions

Btrim (software resource)

RRID:SCR_011836

A fast and lightweight software to trim adapters and low quality regions in reads from ultra high-throughput next-generation sequencing machines.

View all literature mentions

RSEM (software resource)

RRID:SCR_013027

Software package for quantifying gene and isoform abundances from single end or paired end RNA Seq data. Accurate transcript quantification from RNA Seq data with or without reference genome. Used for accurate quantification of gene and isoform expression from RNA-Seq data.

View all literature mentions

Adobe Illustrator (software resource)

RRID:SCR_010279

Vector graphics software to create digital graphics, illustrations, and typography for several types of media: print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.

View all literature mentions

Fiji (software resource)

RRID:SCR_002285

Software package as distribution of ImageJ and ImageJ2 together with Java, Java3D and plugins organized into coherent menu structure. Used to assist research in life sciences.

View all literature mentions

Anti-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) (antibody)

RRID:AB_2109645

This polyclonal targets Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP)

View all literature mentions