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Published in final edited form as: Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Nov 3;19(5):573–586. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.10.015

Table 2.

Comparison of the oligodendrocyte differentiation from hPSCs

Differentiation
study
Durati
on
(days)
Efficien
cy
(OPC)
markers Method
(Neuralization)
Generation of pre-
OPC
Transition from
Pre-OPC to OPC
OPC to
oligodendrocyte
Nistor et al., 2005 42 >80% OLIG1 SOX10
A2B5 NG2, PDGFRα
GalC RIP O4
EB FGF EGF RA EGF
Izrael et al., 2007 >45 >80% OLIG1/2 SOX10
NKX2.2 PDGFRα O4
EB EGF RA Noggin EGF FGF Noggin Noggin
Hu et al., 2009 112 >80 % OLIG2 NKX2.2
PDGFRα O4
EB SHH B27 RA FGF2 PDGF IGFI NT3 T3 PDGF IGFI NT3
Stacpoole et al., 2013 100 80% OLIG2 NKX2.2 NG2
PDGFRα O4
EB with low
oxygen
SAG FGF RA
(pMN)
SAG FGF
(forebrain)
PDGF T3 purmorphamine/SAG
RA (pMN)
PDGF FGF purmorphamine/SAG
T3 (forebrain)
SAG PDGF NT3 IGFI
T3 cAMP
Wang et al., 2013 140 70-
90%
OLIG2 SOX10
NKX2.2 MBP
PDGFRα O4
EB RA B27 FGF
Purmorphamine
PDGF IGFI T3 NT3
Purmorphamine
PDGF IGFI NT3 B27
BDNF
Douvaras et al., 2014 95 70% OLIG2 SOX10
NKX2.2 MBP O4
Dual-SMAD
inhibition
(Monolayer)
RA SAG PDGF HGF IGFI NT3 Insulin
T3 Biotin cAMP
Insulin
T3 Biotin cAMP AA
Gorris et al., 2015 >90 80% OLIG1/2 NKX6.2
NKX2.2 NG2 MBP
SOX10
EB PDGF EGF
forskolin
PDGF T3 AA Noggin T3 AA laminin
Piao et al., 2015 70 90% OLIG2 NKX2.2
SOX10 O1 MBP O4
Dual-SMAD and
WNT inhibition
Purmorphamine
AA BDNF FGF8
PDGF IGFI T3 cAMP BDNF AA T3 cAMP

AA: Ascorbic acid RA: retinoic acid EB: Embryoid body