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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-2-28
pubmed:abstractText
Generation of dopaminergic (DA) neurons from multipotent embryonic progenitors represents a promising therapeutical strategy for Parkinson's disease (PD). Aim of the present study was the establishment of enhanced cell culture conditions, which optimize the use of midbrain progenitor cells in animal models of PD. In addition, the progenitor cells were characterized during expansion and differentiation according to morphological and electrophysiological criteria and compared to primary tissue. Here, we report that CNS precursors can be expanded in vitro up to 40-fold and afterwards be efficiently differentiated into DA neurons. After 4-5 days under differentiation conditions, more than 70% of the neurons were TH+, equivalent to 30% of the total cell population. Calcium imaging revealed the presence of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in the differentiated precursors which are capable to contribute to many developmental processes. The overall survival rate, degree of reinnervation and the behavioral performance after transplantation of 4 days in-vitro-differentiated cells were similar to results after direct grafting of E14 ventral mesencephalic cells, whereas after shorter or longer differentiation periods, respectively, less effects were achieved. Compared to the amount of in-vitro-generated DA neurons, the survival rate was only 0.8%, indicating that these cells are very vulnerable. Our results suggest that expanded and differentiated DA precursors from attached cultures can survive microtransplantation and integrate within the striatum in terms of behavioral recovery. However, there is only a short time window during in vitro differentiation, in which enough cells are already differentiated towards a DA phenotype and simultaneously not too mature for implantation. However, additional factors and/or genetical manipulation of these expanded progenitors will be required to increase their in vivo survival in order to improve both the ethical and the technical outlook for the use of fetal tissue in clinical transplantation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0969-9961
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
587-606
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Cell Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Embryo, Mammalian, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Graft Survival, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Mesencephalon, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Parkinsonian Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Recovery of Function, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:16256357-Stem Cell Transplantation
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Dopaminergic properties and function after grafting of attached neural precursor cultures.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuroanatomy, Center of Anatomy, OE 4140, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30623 Hannover, Germany. m.timmer@email.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study