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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-4
pubmed:abstractText
Transplanted neural precursor cells remyelinate efficiently acutely demyelinated focal lesions. However, the clinical value of cell transplantation in a chronic, multifocal disease like multiple sclerosis will depend on the ability of transplanted cells to migrate to the multiple disease foci in the brain. Here, we expanded newborn rat neural precursor cells in spheres and transplanted them intracerebroventricularly or intrathecally in rats. The cells were labeled by the nuclear fluorescent dye Hoechst or by incubation with BrdU to enable their identification at 2 days and 2 weeks after transplantation, respectively. Spheres consisted of PSA-NCAM(+), nestin(+), NG2(-) undifferentiated precursor cells that differentiated in vitro into astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and neurons. Spheres that were transplanted into intact rats remained mostly in the ventricles or in the spinal subarachnoid space. Following transplantation at peak of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, cells migrated into the brain or spinal cord parenchyma, exclusively into inflamed white matter but not into adjacent gray matter regions. After 2 weeks, many transplanted cells had migrated into distant white matter tracts and acquired specific markers of the astroglial and oligodendroglial lineages. Thus, the inflammatory process may attract targeted migration of transplanted precursor cells into the brain parenchyma.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0894-1491
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
73-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Bromodeoxyuridine, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Injections, Intraventricular, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Injections, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Spinal Cord, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:12465047-Stem Cells
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Transplanted multipotential neural precursor cells migrate into the inflamed white matter in response to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenetics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. tamir@hadassah.org.il
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't