ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease
Dopamine Cell Therapy: From Cell Replacement to Circuitry Repair.
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- Stem Cell Therapy: Past, Present, and Future Aspects.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Electrophysiological characterisation of intranigral-grafted hiPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Article
- Advantages and challenges of using allogeneic vs. autologous sources for neuronal cell replacement in Parkinson's disease: Insights from non-human primate studies.Brain research bulletin · 2025Review
- Alpha-Synuclein Gene Alterations Modulate Tyrosine Hydroxylase in Human iPSC-Derived Neurons in a Parkinson's Disease Animal Model.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Patients accept therapy using embryonic stem cells for Parkinson's disease: a discrete choice experiment.BMC medical ethics · 2023Article
- Directional induction of neural stem cells, a new therapy for neurodegenerative diseases and ischemic stroke.Cell death discovery · 2023Review
- Co-transplantation of autologous TNature · 2023Article
- Deconvolution of spatial sequencing provides accurate characterization of hESC-derived DA transplantsMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2023Article
- Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Embryoid Body Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Overexpressing Dopaminergic Transcription Factors Survive and Initiate Neurogenesis via Neural Rosettes in the Substantia Nigra.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Would you consider donating your left-over embryos to treat Parkinson's disease? Interviews with individuals that underwent IVF in Sweden.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- EndogenousNeural regeneration research · 2022Review
- Excessive local host-graft connectivity in aging and amyloid-loaded brain.Science advances · 2022Article
- Serial Gene Expression Profiling of Neural Stem Cells Shows Transcriptome Switch by Long-Term Physioxia from Metabolic Adaption to Cell Signaling Profile.Stem cells international · 2022Article
- NF-κB in neurodegenerative diseases: Recent evidence from human genetics.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Cell therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD) is aimed to replace the degenerated midbrain dopamine (mDA) neurons and restore DA neurotransmission in the denervated forebrain targets. A limitation of the intrastriatal grafting approach, which is currently used in clinical trials, is that the mDA neurons are implanted into the target area, in most cases the putamen, and not in the ventral midbrain where they normally reside. This ectopic location of the cells may limit their functionality due to the lack of appropriate afferent regulation from the host. Homotopic transplantation, into the substantia nigra, is now being pursued in rodent PD models as a way to achieve more complete circuitry repair. Intranigral grafts of mDA neurons, derived from human embryonic stem cells, have the capacity to re-establish the nigrostriatal and mesolimbic pathways in their entirety and restore dense functional innervations in striatal, limbic and cortical areas. Tracing of host afferent inputs using the rabies tracing technique shows that the afferent connectivity of grafts implanted in the nigra matches closely that of the intrinsic mDA system, suggesting a degree of circuitry reconstruction that exceeds what has been achieved before. This approach holds great promise, but to match the larger size of the human brain, and the 10 times greater distance between substantia nigra and its forebrain targets, it may be necessary to find ways to improve the growth capacity of the grafted mDA neurons, pointing to a combined approach where growth promoting factors are used to enhance the performance of mDA neuron grafts.
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