Single cell transcriptomics identifies stem cell-derived graft composition in a model of Parkinson’s disease

What happens to cells on engrafting into the brain in animal models to treat Parkinson’s disease is unclear. Here, the authors use scRNA-seq to examine ventral midbrain (VM)-patterned human embryonic stem cells after functional maturation in a pre-clinical rat model for Parkinson’s disease and ident...

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Main Authors: Katarína Tiklová, Sara Nolbrant, Alessandro Fiorenzano, Åsa K. Björklund, Yogita Sharma, Andreas Heuer, Linda Gillberg, Deirdre B. Hoban, Tiago Cardoso, Andrew F. Adler, Marcella Birtele, Hilda Lundén-Miguel, Nikolaos Volakakis, Agnete Kirkeby, Thomas Perlmann, Malin Parmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16225-5
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Summary:What happens to cells on engrafting into the brain in animal models to treat Parkinson’s disease is unclear. Here, the authors use scRNA-seq to examine ventral midbrain (VM)-patterned human embryonic stem cells after functional maturation in a pre-clinical rat model for Parkinson’s disease and identify perivascular-like cells.
ISSN:2041-1723