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ArticleJournal of movement disorders2023

Current Status and Future Perspectives on Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Parkinson's Disease.

Young Cha, Tae-Yoon Park, Pierre Leblanc, Kwang-Soo Kim

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Article in Journal of movement disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Stem Cell-Based Approaches in Parkinson's Disease Research.International journal of stem cells · 2025
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  14. Current Landscape of iPSC Haplobanks.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Young ChaDepartment of Psychiatry and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Tae-Yoon ParkDepartment of Psychiatry and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Pierre LeblancDepartment of Psychiatry and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Kwang-Soo KimDepartment of Psychiatry and Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Biorepository of iPSC lines from diverse rat strains for regenerative medicine researchR24OD024622 · OD · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI KIM, KWANG-SOO, KONG, SEK WON · 2018 to 2021
$3.4M
Crosstalk Between Nurr1 and Risk Factors of Parkinson's Disease and its Regulation by Nurr1's LigandsR01NS127391 · NINDS · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI Kwang-Soo Kim · 2023 to 2026
$1.8M
Crosstalk between Nurr1 and risk factors of Parkinson's disease and its regulation by Nurr1's ligandsR56NS127391 · NINDS · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI KIM, KWANG-SOO · 2022 to 2022
$526k
NIH HHS NS127391NIH HHS OD024622NIH HHS R24 OD024622NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127391NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS127391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease, affecting 1%-2% of the population over the age of 65. As the population ages, it is anticipated that the burden on society will significantly escalate. Although symptom reduction by currently available pharmacological and/or surgical treatments improves the quality of life of many PD patients, there are no treatments that can slow down, halt, or reverse disease progression. Because the loss of a specific cell type, midbrain dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra, is the main cause of motor dysfunction in PD, it is considered a promising target for cell replacement therapy. Indeed, numerous preclinical and clinical studies using fetal cell transplantation have provided proof of concept that cell replacement therapy may be a viable therapeutic approach for PD. However, the use of human fetal cells remains fraught with controversy due to fundamental ethical, practical, and clinical limitations. Groundbreaking work on human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells, coupled with extensive basic research in the stem cell field offers promising potential for hPSC-based cell replacement to become a realistic treatment regimen for PD once several major issues can be successfully addressed. In this review, we will discuss the prospects and challenges of hPSC-based cell therapy for PD.

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Cell transplantation therapyEmbryonic stem cellsInduced pluripotent stem cellsMidbrain dopamine neuronsParkinson’s diseasePluripotent stem cells

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PMID36628428
PMCPMC9978267
OpenAlexW4315621388

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