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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2022

A Therapeutic Strategy for Lower Motor Neuron Disease and Injury Integrating Neural Stem Cell Transplantation and Functional Electrical Stimulation in a Rat Model.

Katsuhiro Tokutake, Masaru Takeuchi, Shigeru Kurimoto, Sota Saeki, Yuta Asami, Keiko Onaka, Masaomi Saeki, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Hitoshi Hirata

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2022. 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
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katsuhiro TokutakeDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3604-215X
Masaru TakeuchiDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9304-4667
Shigeru KurimotoDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1521-0038
Sota SaekiDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Yuta AsamiDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4656-2802
Keiko OnakaDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Masaomi SaekiDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Tadayoshi AoyamaDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7860-0725
Yasuhisa HasegawaDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9917-098X
Hitoshi HirataDepartment of Human Enhancement and Hand Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Nagoya University · JP

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development A114Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 20K17997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Promising treatments for upper motor neuron disease are emerging in which motor function is restored by brain-computer interfaces and functional electrical stimulation. At present, such technologies and procedures are not applicable to lower motor neuron disease. We propose a novel therapeutic strategy for lower motor neuron disease and injury integrating neural stem cell transplantation with our new functional electrical stimulation control system. In a rat sciatic nerve transection model, we transplanted embryonic spinal neural stem cells into the distal stump of the peripheral nerve to reinnervate denervated muscle, and subsequently demonstrated that highly responsive limb movement similar to that of a healthy limb could be attained with a wirelessly powered two-channel neurostimulator that we developed. This unique technology, which can reinnervate and precisely move previously denervated muscles that were unresponsive to electrical stimulation, contributes to improving the condition of patients suffering from intractable diseases of paralysis and traumatic injury.

Indexed as

Motor Neuron DiseaseNeural Stem CellsAnimalsElectric StimulationMotor NeuronsMuscle, SkeletalNerve RegenerationRatsRats, Inbred F344Sciatic NerveStem Cell Transplantationcell transplantationdenervated musclefunctional electrical stimulation (FES)muscle reinnervationneural interfaceperipheral nerve injuryregenerationSchwann cellsspinal motor neuronWallerian degeneration

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PMID35955890
PMCPMC9368824
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