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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2014

Designer receptors: therapeutic adjuncts to cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease.

Elena M Vazey, Gary Aston-Jones

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 55% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elena M Vazey
Gary Aston-Jones
Medical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Selective Restoration of KCNQ Channel Inhibition in the PFC to Inhibit Cue-InducP50DA015369 · NIDA · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI KALIVAS, PETER W · 2003 to 2017
$18.6M
EFFECTS OF LOCUS COERULEUS ACTIVATION: SELECTIVE OPTOGENETIC STIMULATION AND fMRIR21MH099534 · NIMH · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI ASTON-JONES, GARY S., ECKERT, MARK ANDREW · 2012 to 2013
$398k
The Role of Locus Coeruleus in Decision Execution and Adaptive GainK99MH104716 · NIMH · RBHS-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI VAZEY, ELENA · 2014 to 2015
$137k
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA015369NIDA NIH HHS P50DA015369NIMH NIH HHS K99 MH104716NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH099534NIMH NIH HHS R21MH099534
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell replacement for restoring neuronal populations in Parkinson's disease has been demonstrated as a potential therapeutic strategy over several decades of studies; however, a number of issues regarding sources of replacement neurons and optimization of therapeutic efficacy in vivo have hampered clinical implementation. In this issue of the JCI, Dell'Anno and colleagues evaluated the use of induced dopaminergic (iDA) neurons that were generated by direct fibroblast reprogramming for transplantation and demonstrated that postmitotic iDA neurons stably and functionally integrate into host striatum to produce motor improvements in 6-OHDA rats, a Parkinson's disease model. Furthermore, using designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADDs) in iDA grafts to noninvasively increase dopamine release from grafted neurons, the authors were able to remotely control transplanted neurons and enhance therapeutic efficacy. This initial proof-of-concept study is the first application of DREADD technology to treat neurodegenerative dysfunction, and by using DREADDs as an adjunct to iDA cell therapy, it presents a novel strategy to overcome some current caveats of cell replacement therapy.

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AnimalsDopaminergic NeuronsFemaleHumansMaleParkinsonian Disorders

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PMID24937425
PMCPMC4071398
OpenAlexW2005020790

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