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ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2020

Generation of Neural Progenitor Cells From Canine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Preliminary Safety Test in Dogs With Spontaneous Spinal Cord Injuries.

Lyndah Chow, Stephanie McGrath, Camila de Arruda Saldanha, Lawrence R Whalen, Rebecca Packer, Steven Dow

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Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 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, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lyndah ChowDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Stephanie McGrathDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Camila de Arruda SaldanhaDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Lawrence R WhalenDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Rebecca PackerDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Steven DowDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, United States.
Colorado State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in stem cell technology, including the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to produce neurons and glial cells, offer new hope for patients with neurological disease and injuries. Pet dogs with spinal cord injuries provide an important spontaneous animal model for evaluating new approaches to stem cell therapy. Therefore, studies were conducted to identify optimal conditions for generating neural progenitor cells (NPC) from canine induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) for preliminary evaluation in animals with spinal cord injury. We found that canine NPC could be induced to differentiate into mature neural cells, including glia and neurons. In addition, canine NPC did not form teratomas when injected in NOD/SCID mice. In a pilot study, two dogs with chronic spinal cord injury underwent fluoroscopically guided intrathecal injections of canine NPC. In follow-up MRI evaluations, tumor formation was not observed at the injection sites. However, none of the animals experienced meaningful clinical or electrophysiological improvement following NPC injections. These studies provide evidence that canine iPSC can be used to generate NPC for evaluation in cellular therapy of chronic spinal cord injury in the dog spontaneous injury model. Further refinements in the cell implantation procedure are likely required to enhance stem cell treatment efficacy.

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induced pluripotent stem cellneural progenitorspinal cord injectionspinal cord injuryteratoma

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PMCPMC7674778
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