mRNA-seq analyses for the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) among Con, NF VM-astrocytes, Ctx-astrocytes, and control Ctx-NPCs

To gain further molecular insight into the observed astrocyte functions, we performed RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of the differentiated Ctx-NPCs (control), Ctx-astrocytes and VM-astrocytes used in the co-culture and CM experiments. The genes that are differentially expressed (DEGs) in Ctx-astrocytes compared to differentiated Ctx-NPCs (FPKM>1, log2>1) significantly overlapped with DEGs in VM-astrocytes compared to differentiated Ctx-NPCs 5 mouse sample: mNPC-CTX, mAST-VMC, mAST-VMNF, mAST-CTX, mAST-VM