Intracrine Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Maintains Hippocampal Neural Stem Cell Quiescence
Dause, T. J.; Denninger, J. K.; Rieskamp, J. D.; Kuwahara, A. A.; Kirby, E. D.
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The vasculature is a key component of adult brain neural stem cell (NSC) niches. In the adult mammalian hippocampus, NSCs reside in close contact with a dense capillary network. How this niche is maintained is unclear. We recently found that adult hippocampal NSCs express vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a soluble factor with chemoattractive properties for vascular endothelia. Here, we show that NSC-specific VEGF loss led to dissociation of NSCs from local vasculature but surprisingly found no changes in vascular density. Instead, we found that NSC-derived VEGF supports the motility of NSCs themselves via a cell internal signaling loop. We further found that this internal autocrine loop also independently maintained NSC quiescence cell autonomously. Combined, our findings suggest that NSCs maintain their populations via 2 mechanisms that are dependent on cell internal VEGF signaling: self-stimulated motility towards vasculature and cell autonomous maintenance of quiescence programs.
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