title: A brief perspective on neural cell therapy.
abstract: For a range of nervous system disorders current treatment options remain limited. Focusing on Parkinson's disease as a neurodegenerative entity that affects an increasing quantity of people in our aging societies, we briefly discuss remaining challenges and opportunities that neural stem cell therapy might be able to offer. Providing a snapshot of neural transplantation paradigms, we contemplate possible imminent translational scenarios and discuss critical requirements to be considered before clinical implementation.
authors.affiliation: Emmy Noether-Group for Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Albertstr. 17, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pruszak
keywords: Cell therapy; Neural stem cells; Neural transplantation; Neurological disease