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Record W4409395052 · doi:10.1038/s41420-025-02404-0

Acetylcholine muscarinic M2 receptor maintains human Schwann-like adipose-derived phenotype in the absence of differentiating medium

2025· article· en· W4409395052 on OpenAlex
Roberta Piovesana, Alessandro Faroni, Ada Maria Tata, Adam J. Reid

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueCell Death Discovery · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNerve injury and regeneration
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéSapienza Università di RomaRosetrees TrustAcademy of Medical SciencesAcorda Therapeutics
KeywordsMuscarinic acetylcholine receptorPhenotypeMuscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2Adipose tissueAcetylcholine receptorAcetylcholineCell biologyMuscarinic acetylcholine receptor M3EndocrinologyMuscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1ReceptorInternal medicineBiologyNeuroscienceChemistryMedicineGeneticsGene

Abstract

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Human adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs), differentiated in vitro towards Schwann-like phenotype (hdASCs), have been suggested as an alternative source of Schwann cells (SCs). However, although they seem a good alternative, their differentiation is unstable, losing their SC-like phenotype following growth factor withdrawal. Rat and human SCs and rat dASCs have been characterized for acetylcholine M2 muscarinic receptor subtype that plays a strategic role in the regulation of their differentiation. Here, we evaluated the M2 muscarinic receptor activation in controlling hdASC proliferation and stabilization of the hdASC phenotype. In accordance with our data in rats, M2 stimulation results in a reversible decrease of cell growth and migration in hdASCs, negatively modulates proliferation markers and upregulates differentiation markers. Remarkably, hdASC differentiation can be stabilized by M2 receptor activation in the absence of differentiation media maintaining a spindle-shaped morphology and SC-like marker expression. These results show that the M2 receptor enhances the hdASC phenotype, maintaining the expression of key glial markers and supporting their pro-regenerative properties.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.549

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.283
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it