Cell-based therapies for Parkinson's disease

SC Dyson, RA Barker - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease
worldwide, classically characterized by a triad of motor features: bradykinesia, rigidity and …

Treating Parkinson's disease in the 21st century: can stem cell transplantation compete?

PC Buttery, RA Barker - Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristic and selective degeneration of a unique population of cells—the
nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) neurons—that occurs in Parkinson's disease (PD) has made the …

Prospects of stem cell therapy for replacing dopamine neurons in Parkinson's disease

O Lindvall, Z Kokaia - Trends in Pharmacological sciences, 2009 - cell.com
In Parkinson's disease (PD), the main pathology is a loss of nigrostriatal dopamine (DA)
neurons. Clinical trials with intrastriatal transplantation of human embryonic mesencephalic …

Rewiring the brain with cell transplantation in Parkinson's disease

A Gaillard, M Jaber - Trends in neurosciences, 2011 - cell.com
Cell replacement therapy has been proposed as a means to replace lost dopaminergic
neurons in Parkinson's disease (PD). In most studies, the transplanted cells have been …

Current status of stem cell-derived therapies for Parkinson's disease: from cell assessment and imaging modalities to clinical trials

SE Jang, L Qiu, LL Chan, EK Tan, L Zeng - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Curative therapies or treatments reversing the progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) have
attracted considerable interest in the last few decades. PD is characterized by the gradual …

Cell-based therapies for Parkinson disease—past insights and future potential

RA Barker, J Drouin-Ouellet, M Parmar - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2015 - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by loss of the A9 nigral neurons that provide
dopaminergic innervation to the striatum. This discovery led to the successful instigation of …

Progress in dopaminergic cell replacement and regenerative strategies for Parkinson's disease

W Chen, Q Huang, S Ma, M Li - ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2018 - ACS Publications
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder
symptomatically characterized by resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and gait impairment …

Cell therapies for Parkinson's disease: how far have we come?

TB Stoker, RA Barker - Regenerative Medicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past three decades, significant progress has been made in the development of
potential regenerative cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative disease, with most …

Neural stem cells and transplantation studies in Parkinson's disease

R Pardal, J López-Barneo - Stem cell transplantation, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD), one of the most frequent neurodegenerative disorders, is
primarily caused by the selective degeneration of specific neuronal populations, particularly …

Cell transplantation for Parkinson's disease: present status

R Drucker-Colín, L Verdugo-Díaz - Cellular and molecular neurobiology, 2004 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the loss of neurons in
the substantia nigra pars compacta and a striatal deficiency of dopamine. PD typically affects …