title: [Cell therapy for brain diseases: perspective and future prospects].
abstract: iPS cells have opened up a revolutionarily new era for disease researches and regenerative medicine. Disese-specific iPS cells have tremendous promise for the understanding of pathogenesis of numerous intractable brain diseases. Cell transplantation therapies using somatic stem cells, ES cells and iPS cells are also promising, although ethical issues should be cleared and a lot of problems should be solved by technical innovations before they go into clinics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D017690:Cell Transplantation / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000637:transplantation; D051379:Mice; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000639:trends