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NEUROREPORT
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 1127-1132Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200105080-00016
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aging; differentiation; engraftment; memory; migration; progenitor; transplantation
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The capability for in vitro expansion of human neural stem cells (HNSCs) provides a well characterized and unlimited source alternative to using primary fetal tissue for neuronal replacement therapies. The HNSCs, injected into the lateral ventricle of 24-month-old rats after in vitro expansion, displayed extensive and positional incorporation into the aged host brain with improvement of cognitive score assessed by the Morris water maze after 4 weeks of the transplantation. Our results demonstrate that the aged brain is capable of providing the necessary environment for HNSCs to retain their pluripotent status and suggest the potential for neuroreplacement therapies in age-associated neurodegenerative disease. NeuroReport 12:1127-1132 (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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