Abstract

SummaryUnderstanding the contribution of adult neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and their lineage potential is a great challenge in neuroscience. To reveal progenitor diversity and cell-lineage relationships of postnatal NPCs in the subventricular zone (SVZ), we performed in vivo lineage-tracing genetic analysis using the UbC-StarTrack. We determined the progeny of single SVZ-NPCs, the number of cells per clone, the dispersion of sibling cells, and the cell types within clones. Long-term analysis revealed that both the cell-dispersion pattern and number of cells comprising clones varied depending on the glial/neuronal nature of sibling cells. Sibling-olfactory interneurons were primarily located within the same layer, while sibling-glial cells populated SVZ-adjacent areas. Sibling astrocytes and interneurons did not form big clones, whereas oligodendroglial-lineage clones comprised the largest clones originated in adult brains. These results demonstrate the existence of SVZ postnatal bipotential progenitors that give rise to clones widely dispersed across the olfactory bulb and SVZ-adjacent areas.

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