Figure 2

Prion protein (PrP) expression has minimal influence on how beta-amyloid (Aβ) affects neural stem cell (NSC) differentiation. Example plates of western blots for lineage protein markers from knock-out (KO) and wild-type (WT) NSCs treated for either 7 days during differentiation (A) or 24 hours prior to differentiation for 7 days (B) with 1 μM Aβ. Quantification of the western blots (A & B) for the stem cell marker nestin (C, F), mature neuronal marker, NF-L (D, G), and GFAP astrocytic marker (E, H). Data are represented as mean ± SEM. Example immunofluorescent images of NSCs treated with Aβ during (I) and before (J) differentiation with NF-L, GFAP and DAPI nuclear staining shown in red, green and blue respectively. Scale bars = 15 μm.