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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2010 Oct 13;11(11):2936–2943. doi: 10.1021/bm100699q

Table 1.

Effect of substrate and encapsulated fibroblasts on NPC lineage differentiation

Astrocytes Oligoes Neurons
Antibody GFAP S100b GalC CNPase beta Tub MAP 2
Construct type
Plates 62.5±4.5% 69.9±4.1% 16.9±3.3% 16.8±3.3% 20.6±3.0% 16.9±3.3%
PlainAlginate 53±5.1% 49.2±4.4% 23.3±4.3% 19.2±3.1% 23.7±2.8% 17.7±3.7%
Fb/BDNF 12.3±3.3% 17.1±4.5% 53.1±9.1% 54.9±8.0% 36.7±5.6% 34.0±3.9%
Fb/NT3 10.79±5.9% 14.7±2.9% 35±5.4% 29.3±7.2% 52.7±4.7% 55.9±6.5%