title: In Vivo Reprogramming for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair.
abstract: Cell reprogramming technologies have enabled the generation of various specific cell types including neurons from readily accessible patient cells, such as skin fibroblasts, providing an intriguing novel cell source for autologous cell transplantation. However, cell transplantation faces several difficult hurdles such as cell production and purification, long-term survival, and functional integration after transplantation. Recently, in vivo reprogramming, which makes use of endogenous cells for regeneration purpose, emerged as a new approach to circumvent cell transplantation. There has been evidence for in vivo reprogramming in the mouse pancreas, heart, and brain and spinal cord with various degrees of success. This mini review summarizes the latest developments presented in the first symposium on in vivo reprogramming glial cells into functional neurons in the brain and spinal cord, held at the 2014 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.
authors.forename: Gong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine , Stanford, California 94305.
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wernig
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , 55128 Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Benedikt
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2652-2782
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Berninger
authors.affiliation: Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation , and Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine , Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039.
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakafuku
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology and Lund Stem Cell Center, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University , S-221 84 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Malin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parmar
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, Texas 75390.
authors.forename: Chun-Li
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2639-4605
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming / Q000502:physiology; D000067470:Cellular Reprogramming Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004219:District of Columbia; D006801:Humans; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000502:physiology*; D055495:Neurogenesis / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: NG2 cell; astrocyte; brain repair; in vivo; neuron; reprogramming