Objective(s): Neurotrophic factors secreting cells (NTS-SCs) may be a superior cell source for cell-based therapy in neurodegenerative diseases. NTS-SCs are able to secrete some neurotrophic Such as nerve growth factor and glia-derived neurotrophic factor. Our primary aim was to assess transplantation of neurotrophic factor secreting cells derived from human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs) ...

Neuregulins (NRGs) are expressed in spinal cord motor neurons and accumulate at the neuromuscular junction where they may increase the synthesis of postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors and voltage-gated sodium channels. We demonstrate here that NRG expression is selectively increased in rat ventral spinal cord neurons at approximately the time that nerve-muscle synapses first form. A rapid incr...

The role of neurotrophic factors in the maintenance and survival of peripheral neuronal cells has been the subject of numerous studies. Administration of exogenous neurotrophic factors after nerve injury has been shown to mimic the effect of target organ-derived trophic factors on neuronal cells. After axotomy and during peripheral nerve regeneration, the neurotrophins NGF, NT-3 and BDNF show a...

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor is one of the most potent motoneuron survival factors yet identified. Although retrograde transport of trophic factors to the cell body is thought to be an important process in motoneuron survival, the transport pathways that lead to interaction of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor with its receptors is not known. We have used a double ligat...

Neurogenesis is the combined processes of division, migration and differentiation neural stem cells (NSCs). The two different locations: subventricular zone (SVZ) lateral ventricle subgranular (SGZ) in hippocampus dentate gyrus (DG), provide a niche environment for neurogenesis. Neurotrophic factors have roles on migration, proliferation NSC progenitor cells. Studies shown that NSCs regulator...

Karlsson, M. 2001. Neurotrophic Factors and Their Receptors in the Developing Avian Retina and Its Tectal Target. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1053, 80 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5062-8. Neurotrophic factors and their receptors are crucial for the formation of neuronal connections and for the neuronal survival during...

Drugs are currently being developed for the treatment of serious brain disorders including glioblastoma, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. These include chemotherapeutic drugs and those based on neurotrophic factors such as glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and neurturin (NTN). Neurotrophic factors have therapeutic potential for...

Interleukin (IL)-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine, is expressed in the brain and can inhibit microglial activation. Herein, we utilized lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammatory Parkinson's disease (PD) cell model to determine whether microglia and astrocytes are necessary targets for IL-10 neuroprotection. Primary ventral mesencephalic (VM) cultures with different composition of neurons, ...

The transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for treating neurodegenerative disorders has received growing attention recently because these cells are readily available, easily expanded in culture, and when transplanted, survive for relatively long periods of time. Given that such transplants have been shown to be safe in a variety of applications, in addition to recent findings that MSC...

PURPOSE To examine the effects of transplanting retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells transduced with neurotrophic factor genes into the subretinal space of rats. METHODS RPE cells were transduced with plasmids carrying the cDNAs of Axokine (ciliary neurotrophic factor [CNTF]; Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan), brain derived-neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and basic fibroblast gr...