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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

Neural Transplants From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Rescue the Pathology and Behavioral Defects in a Rodent Model of Huntington's Disease.

Yongwoo Yoon, Hyun Sook Kim, Chang Pyo Hong, Endan Li, Iksoo Jeon, Hyun Jung Park, Nayeon Lee, Zhong Pei, Jihwan Song

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Transplanted human neural stem cells rescue phenotypes in zQ175 Huntington's disease mice and innervate the striatum.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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  5. Current and Possible Future Therapeutic Options for Huntington's Disease.Journal of central nervous system disease · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Yongwoo YoonDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Hyun Sook KimDepartment of Neurology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Chang Pyo HongTheragen Etex Bio Institute, Suwon-si, South Korea.
Endan LiDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Iksoo JeonDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Hyun Jung ParkDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Nayeon LeeDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
Zhong PeiDepartment of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Jihwan SongDepartment of Biomedical Science, CHA Stem Cell Institute, CHA University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating, autosomal-dominant inheritance disorder with the progressive loss of medium spiny neurons (MSNs) and corticostriatal connections in the brain. Cell replacement therapy has been proposed as a potential therapeutic strategy to treat HD. Among various types of stem cells, human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have received special attention to develop disease modeling and cell therapy for HD. In the present study, the therapeutic effects of neural precursor cells (NPCs) derived from a human iPSC line (1231A3-NPCs) were investigated in the quinolinic acid (QA)-lesioned rat model of HD. 1231A3-NPCs were transplanted into the ipsilateral striatum 1 week after QA lesioning, and the transplanted animals showed significant behavioral improvements for up to 12 weeks based on the staircase, rotarod, stepping, apomorphine-induced rotation, and cylinder tests. Transplanted 1231A3-NPCs also partially replaced the lost neurons, enhanced endogenous neurogenesis, reduced inflammatory responses, and reconstituted the damaged neuronal connections. Taken together, these results strongly indicate that NPCs derived from iPSCs can potentially be useful to treat HD in the future.

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behavioral recoverycell transplantationHuntington’s diseaseinduced pluripotent stem cellsneural precursor cells

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PMID33071737
PMCPMC7530284

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