Lateral ventricle cell compositions and use for treating neural degenerative diseases
View Patent ↗A pluripotent stem cell isolated from the lateral ventrical of the brain or choroid plexus is provided. Compositions and methods of isolating and using the cell also is provided.
1. An isolated ependymal cell, wherein the cell expresses the marker myosin VIIA and does not express glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and does not express at least one neuronal marker of the group of TuJ1, Hes1, NeuN, or neurofilament.
2. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell is isolated from the lateral ventricle or the choroid plexus of a subject.
3. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 2 , wherein the subject is a murine, a rat, a bovine, a simian, a porcine or a human.
4. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell further expresses one or more of the markers F-actin, ribeye or myosin VI.
5. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell is an isolated ciliated epithelial cell.
6. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell is an isolated polarized ependymal cell.
7. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell can establish synapse-like contact with a spiral ganglia neuron (SGN) .
8. A population of isolated ependymal cells of claim 1 or 4 .
9. An expanded clonal population of ependymal cells of claim 8 .
10. A composition comprising the isolated cell of claim 1 , and a carrier.
11. The composition of claim 10 , wherein the carrier is a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
12. The composition of claim 10 , further comprising an isolated neural stem cell (NSC) or a NSC-derived neuron.
13. The composition of claim 10 , further comprising an isolated spiral ganglia-like neuron (SGN).
14. The composition of claim 10 , further comprising an isolated hair cell (HC).
15. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell is isolated from the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the lateral ventricle (LV) .
16. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell expresses synapsin 1.
17. The isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 , wherein the cell can establish synaptic contact with a hair cell (HC) or a spiral ganglia neuron (SGN).
18. A population of isolated ependymal cells of claim 1 .
19. An expanded clonal population of ependymal cells of claim 1 .
20. An isolated ependymal cell of claim 1 or 4 , further comprising one or more of a label, a detectable label or an exogenous polynucleotide.
21. A method for identifying an ependymal cell of claim 1 , comprising screening a composition that may contain the cell for the expression of myosin VIIA, and optionally for expression of a gene or protein selected from the group consisting of F-actin, ribeye and myosin VI and the combinations thereof, and screening for the lack of expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and lack of expression of at least one neuronal marker of the group of TuJ1, Hes1, NeuN, a Neurofilament or combinations thereof.