Pleiotrophin promotes functional recovery after neural transplantation in rats
Pleiotrophin promotes functional recovery after neural transplantation in rats
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DOI:
10.1097/wnr.0b013e328011398e
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发表时间:
2007-01-22
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Nishino, Hitoo
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作者:
Hida, Hideki;Masuda, Tadashi;Nishino, Hitoo
Pleiotrophin promotes survival of dopaminergic neurons in vitro. To investigate whether pleiotrophin promotes survival of grafted dopaminergic neurons in vivo, donor cells from ventral mesencepha-Ion were treated with pleiotrophin (100 ng/ml) during cell preparation and grafted into striatum of hemi-Parkinson model rats. Functional recovery in methamphetamine-induced rotations was improved, and more tyrosine hydroxylase-positive cells survived in the striatum in the pleiotrophin-treated group. Pleiotrophin addition to cells just before transplantation also resulted in better functional recovery; however, no caspase-3 activation was seen during cell preparation. Interestingly, the effect of pleiotrophin on the survival was additive to that of glial-cell line-derived neutropic factor. These results revealed that pleiotrophin had effects on donor cells in neural transplantation in vivo.