title: The human gastrointestinal tract, a potential autologous neural stem cell source.
abstract: Stem cell therapies seem to be an appropriate tool for the treatment of a variety of diseases, especially when a substantial cell loss leads to a severe clinical impact. This is the case in most neuronal cell losses. Unfortunately, adequate neural stem cell sources are hard to find and current alternatives, such as induced programmed stem cells, still have incalculable risks. Evidence of neurogenesis in the adult human enteric nervous system brought up a new perspective. In humans the appendix harbors enteric neuronal tissue and is an ideal location where the presence of neural stem cells is combined with a minimal invasive accessibility. In this study appendices from adults and children were investigated concerning their neural stem cell potential. From each appendix tissue samples were collected, and processed for immunohistochemistry or enteric neural progenitor cell generation. Free-floating enteric neurospheres (EnNS's) could be generated after 6 days in vitro. EnNS's were either used for transplantation into rat brain slices or differentiation experiments. Both transplanted spheres and control cultures developed an intricate network with glia, neurons and interconnecting fibers, as seen in primary enteric cultures before. Neuronal, glial and neural stem cell markers could be identified both in vitro and in vivo by immunostaining. The study underlines the potential of the enteric nervous system as an autologous neural stem cell source. Using the appendix as a potential target opens up a new perspective that might lead to a relatively unproblematic harvest of neural stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg Mannheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Cornelia Irene
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Hagl
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heumüller-Klug
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wink
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wessel
authors.forename: Karl-Herbert
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Schäfer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017615:Enteric Nervous System / Q000166:cytology*; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D058953:Neural Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D051381:Rats; D055815:Young Adult
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