Human neural precursor cells express low levels of telomerase in vitro and show diminishing cell proliferation with extensive axonal outgrowth following transplantation
| Autor: | Ostenfeld, T, Caldwell, MA, Prowse, KR, Linskens, MH, Jauniaux, E, Svendsen, CN, Prowse, Karen R., Svendsen, Clive N. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology, Cell Biochemistry |
| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Telomerase
Cellular differentiation Cell Count 0302 clinical medicine Nerve Fibers Cell Movement Tubulin HUMAN FIBROBLASTS Cells Cultured neural stem cells Neurons 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study Stem Cells Graft Survival Cell Differentiation IMMORTAL CELLS Telomere REPLICATIVE SENESCENCE Neural stem cell Cell biology Neurology immune rejection Female Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Stem cell NEURONAL PROGENITOR CELLS STEM-CELLS Cell Division SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase Population Transplantation Heterologous neural progenitor cells Biology RAT-BRAIN Time 03 medical and health sciences Developmental Neuroscience Fetal Tissue Transplantation Precursor cell Animals Humans Brain Tissue Transplantation human Progenitor cell education Oxidopamine 030304 developmental biology CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM IN-VITRO telomeres Axons Corpus Striatum Rats Transplantation Immunology neural transplantation INTRASTRIATAL GRAFTS 030217 neurology & neurosurgery neural precursor cells Stem Cell Transplantation |
| Zdroj: | Experimental Neurology, 164(1), 215-226. ACADEMIC PRESS INC JNL-COMP SUBSCRIPTIONS |
| ISSN: | 0014-4886 |
| Popis: | Worldwide attention. is presently focused on proliferating populations of neural precursor cells as an in vitro source of tissue for neural transplantation and brain repair. However, successful neuroreconstruction is contingent upon their capacity to integrate within the host CNS and the absence of tumorigenesis, Here we show that human neural precursor cells express very low levels of telomerase at early passages (less than 20 population doublings), but that this decreases to undetectable levels at later passages. In contrast, rodent neural precursors express high levels of telomerase at both early and late passages. The human neural precursors also have telomeres (approximately 12 kbp) significantly shorter than those of their rodent counterparts (approximately 40 kbp), Human neural precursors were then expanded 100-fold prior to intrastriatal transplantation in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease. To establish the effects of implanted cell number on survival and integration, precursors were transplanted at either 200,000, 1 million, or 2 million cells per animal. Interestingly, the smaller transplants were more likely to extend neuronal fibers and less likely to provoke immune rejection than the largest transplants in this xenograft model. Cellular proliferation continued immediately posttransplantation, but by 20 weeks there were virtually no dividing cells within any of the grafts. In contrast, fiber outgrowth increased gradually over time and often occupied the entire striatum at 20 weeks postgrafting, Transient expression of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cells within the grafts was found in some animals, hut this was not sustained at 20 weeks and had no functional effects, For Parkinson's disease, the principal aim now is to induce the dopaminergic phenotype in these cells prior to transplantation. However, given the relative safety profile for these human cells and their capacity to extend fibers into the adult rodent brain, they may provide the ideal basis for the repair of other lesions of the CNS where extensive axonal outgrowth is required. (C) 2000 Academic Press. |
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