Long-term survival of human central nervous system progenitor cells transplanted into a rat model of Parkinson's disease

Svendsen, C. N., Caldwell, M. A., Shen, J., ter Borg, M. G., Rosser, Anne Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4716-4753, Tyres, P., Karmiol, S. and Dunnett, S. B. 1997. Long-term survival of human central nervous system progenitor cells transplanted into a rat model of Parkinson's disease. Experimental Neurology 148 (1) , pp. 135-146. 10.1006/exnr.1997.6634

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Abstract

Progenitor cells were isolated from the developing human central nervous system (CNS), induced to divide using a combination of epidermal growth factor and fibroblast growth factor-2, and then transplanted into the striatum of adult rats with unilateral dopaminergic lesions. Large grafts were found at 2 weeks survival which contained many undifferentiated cells, some of which were migrating into the host striatum. However, by 20 weeks survival, only a thin strip of cells remained at the graft core while a large number of migrating astrocytes labeled with a human-specific antibody could be seen throughout the striatum. Fully differentiated graft-derived neurons, also labeled with a human-specific antibody, were seen close to the transplant site in some animals. A number of these neurons expressed tyrosine hydroxylase and were sufficient to partially ameliorate lesion-induced behavioral deficits in two animals. These results show that expanded populations of human CNS progenitor cells maintained in a proliferative state in culture can migrate and differentiate into both neurons and astrocytes following intracerebral grafting. As such these cells may have potential for development as an alternative source of tissue for neural transplantation in degenerative diseases.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0014-4886
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81782

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