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ArticleStem cell reports2015

Ex vivo gene therapy using patient iPSC-derived NSCs reverses pathology in the brain of a homologous mouse model.

Tagan A Griffin, Hayley C Anderson, John H Wolfe

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Article in Stem cell reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Tagan A GriffinResearch Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Hayley C AndersonResearch Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
John H WolfeResearch Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; W.F. Goodman Center for Comparative Medical Genetics, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: jhwolfe@vet.upenn.edu.

Funding

GENE THERAPY TRAINING--CYSTIC FIBROSIS/GENETIC DISEASEST32DK007748 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WOLFE, JOHN H · 1997 to 2011
$2.8M
Disseminated gene delivery to the CNS by human iPSC-derived neural stem cellsR01NS088667 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI WOLFE, JOHN H · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007748NIDDK NIH HHS T32-DK007748NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS088667NINDS NIH HHS R01-NS088667
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation is a promising strategy for delivering therapeutic proteins in the brain. We evaluated a complete process of ex vivo gene therapy using human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived NSC transplants in a well-characterized mouse model of a human lysosomal storage disease, Sly disease. Human Sly disease fibroblasts were reprogrammed into iPSCs, differentiated into a stable and expandable population of NSCs, genetically corrected with a transposon vector, and assessed for engraftment in NOD/SCID mice. Following neonatal intraventricular transplantation, the NSCs engraft along the rostrocaudal axis of the CNS primarily within white matter tracts and survive for at least 4 months. Genetically corrected iPSC-NSCs transplanted post-symptomatically into the striatum of adult Sly disease mice reversed neuropathology in a zone surrounding the grafts, while control mock-corrected grafts did not. The results demonstrate the potential for ex vivo gene therapy in the brain using human NSCs from autologous, non-neural tissues.

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AdultAnimalsBrainCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedCellular ReprogrammingDependovirusDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGenetic TherapyHumansKaryotypingMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDTranscription Factors

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PMID25866157
PMCPMC4437470

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