Directed fiber outgrowth from transplanted embryonic cortex-derived neurospheres in the adult mouse brain.
Neural transplantation has emerged as an attractive strategy for the replacement of neurons that have been lost in the central nervous system. Multipotent neural progenitor cells are potentially useful as donor cells to repopulate the degenerated regions. One important aspect of a transplantation strategy is whether transplanted cells are capable of fiber outgrowth with the aim of rebuilding axonal connections within the host brain. To address this issue, we expanded neuronal progenitor from the cortex of embryonic day 15 ubiquitously green fluorescent protein-expressing transgenic mice as neurospheres in vitro and grafted them into the entorhinal cortex of 8-week-old mice immediately after a perforant pathway lesion. After transplantation into a host brain with a lesion of the entorhino-hippocampal projection, the neurosphere-derived cells extended long fiber projections directed towards the dentate gyrus. Our results indicate that transplantation of neurosphere-derived cells might be a promising strategy to replace lost or damaged axonal projections.
Radojevic
Vesna
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HNO Klinik, ZLF 411, University of Basel, Hebelstr 20, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Kapfhammer
Josef P
JP
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D016380:Brain Tissue Transplantation; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000196:embryology / Q000637:transplantation*; D018891:Dentate Gyrus / Q000503:physiopathology; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D018728:Entorhinal Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D016332:Fetal Tissue Transplantation; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000293:injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D055495:Neurogenesis; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D019580:Perforant Pathway / Q000293:injuries / Q000503:physiopathology
D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins