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 …

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 …

Repairing the brain: cell replacement using stem cell-based technologies

C Henchcliffe, M Parmar - Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Current approaches to cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease are strongly focused
on the dopamine system, with the view that restoring dopaminergic inputs in a localized and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in cell-based therapy for Parkinson disease

A Astradsson, O Cooper, A Vinuela, O Isacson - Neurosurgical Focus, 2008 - thejns.org
✓ In this review, the authors discuss recent advances in the field of cell therapy for Parkinson
disease (PD). They compare and contrast recent clinical trials using fetal dopaminergic …

Restorative cell therapy for Parkinson's disease: a quest for the perfect cell

VJ Hall, JY Li, P Brundin - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2007 - Elsevier
The development of a cell therapy for the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease is
a realistic ambition. It is pursued by researchers and companies alike, and spans different …

Balancing expectations for success in stem cell-based clinical trials for Parkinson's disease

O Lindvall - Cell Stem Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Upcoming clinical trials assessing transplantation of stem cell-derived dopaminergic
neurons into the striatum in patients with Parkinson's disease could generate …

The future of cell-based transplantation therapies for neurodegenerative disorders

SE Lazic, RA Barker - Journal of Hematotherapy & Stem Cell …, 2003 - liebertpub.com
Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disease with a lifetime incidence of
2.5% and a prevalence of at least 2% in individuals over 70 years old. Patients can be …

Developing stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease: waiting until the time is right

RA Barker - Cell Stem Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The ability to successfully replace lost nigral dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease
(PD) has been clearly shown with fetal ventral mesencephalic transplants, albeit …

Are stem cell-based therapies for Parkinson's disease ready for the clinic in 2016?

RA Barker, M Parmar, A Kirkeby… - Journal of …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Recent news of an impending clinical cell transplantation trial in Parkinson's disease using
parthenogenetic stem cells as a source of donor tissue have raised hopes in the patient …

Stem cell therapy for Parkinson's disease

J Takahashi - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of stem cell therapy for Parkinson's disease is to reconstruct nigro–striatal neuronal
pathways using endogenous neural stem/precursor cells or grafted dopaminergic neurons …