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ArticleExperimental brain research1996

Fetal ventral mesencephalon of human and rat origin maintained in vitro and transplanted to 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats gives rise to grafts rich in dopaminergic neurons.

C Spenger, N S Haque, L Studer, L Evtouchenko, B Wagner, B Bühler, U Lendahl, S B Dunnett, R W Seiler

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Article in Experimental brain research, 1996. 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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  2. Visualization, direct isolation, and transplantation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2001
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

C SpengerDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland.
N S Haque
L Studer
L Evtouchenko
B Wagner
B Bühler
U Lendahl
S B Dunnett
R W Seiler
University Hospital of Bern · CHUniversity of Bern · CHUniversity of Cambridge · GBKarolinska Institutet · SE

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Abstract

Free-floating roller tube cultures of human fetal (embryonic age 6-10 weeks post-conception) and rat fetal (embryonic day 13) ventral mesencephalon were prepared. After 7-15 days in vitro, the mesencephalic tissue cultures were transplanted into the striatum of adult rats that had received unilateral injections of 6-hydroxydopamine into the nigrostriatal bundle 3-5 weeks prior to transplantation. Graft survival was assessed in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-immunostained serial sections of the grafted brains up to post-transplantation week 4 for the human fetal xenografts and post-transplantation week 11 for the rat fetal allografts. D-amphetamine-induced rotation was monitored up to 10 weeks after transplantation in the allografted animals and compared with that of lesioned-only control animals. All transplanted animals showed large, viable grafts containing TH-immunoreactive (ir) neurons. The density of TH-ir neurons in the human fetal xenografts and in rat fetal allografts was similar. A significant amelioration of the amphetamine-induced rotation was observed in the animals that received cultured tissue allografts. These results promote the feasibility of in vitro maintenance of fetal human and rat nigral tissue prior to transplantation using the free-floating roller tube technique.

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Fetal Tissue TransplantationTransplantation, HeterologousAnimalsBehavior, AnimalCorpus StriatumCulture TechniquesDopamineFemaleHumansHydroxydopaminesMaleMesencephalonNeuronsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRats, Wistar5-hydroxydopamineDopamineHydroxydopaminesTyrosine 3-Monooxygenase

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