Simultaneous Transplantation of Fetal Ventral Mesencephalic Tissue and Encapsulated Genetically Modified Cells Releasing GDNF in a Hemi-Parkinsonian Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease.

Perez-Bouza, Alberto; Di Santo, Stefano; Seiler, Stefanie; Meyer, Morten; Andereggen, Lukas; Huber, Alexander; Guzman, Raphael; Widmer, Hans Rudolf (2017). Simultaneous Transplantation of Fetal Ventral Mesencephalic Tissue and Encapsulated Genetically Modified Cells Releasing GDNF in a Hemi-Parkinsonian Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease. Cell transplantation, 26(9), pp. 1572-1581. Cognizant Communication Corporation 10.1177/0963689717721202

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Transplantation of fetal ventral mesencephalic (VM) neurons for Parkinson's disease (PD) is limited by poor survival and suboptimal integration of grafted tissue into the host brain. In a 6-hydroxydopamine rat model of PD, we investigated the feasibility of simultaneous transplantation of rat fetal VM tissue and polymer-encapsulated C2C12 myoblasts genetically modified to produce glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) or mock-transfected myoblasts on graft function. Amphetamine-induced rotations were assessed prior to transplantation and 2, 4, 6 and 9 wk posttransplantation. We found that rats grafted with VM transplants and GDNF capsules showed a significant functional recovery 4 wk after implantation. In contrast, rats from the VM transplant and mock-capsule group did not improve at any time point analyzed. Moreover, we detected a significantly higher number of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive (TH-ir) cells per graft (2-fold), a tendency for a larger graft volume and an overall higher TH-ir fiber outgrowth into the host brain (1.7-fold) in the group with VM transplants and GDNF capsules as compared to the VM transplant and mock-capsule group. Most prominent was the TH-ir fiber outgrowth toward the capsule (9-fold). Grafting of GDNF-pretreated VM transplants in combination with the implantation of GDNF capsules resulted in a tendency for a higher TH-ir fiber outgrowth into the host brain (1.7-fold) as compared to the group transplanted with untreated VM transplants and GDNF capsules. No differences between groups were observed for the number of surviving TH-ir neurons or graft volume. In conclusion, our findings demonstrate that simultaneous transplantation of fetal VM tissue and encapsulated GDNF-releasing cells is feasible and support the graft survival and function. Pretreatment of donor tissue with GDNF may offer a way to further improve cell transplantation approaches for PD.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurosurgery

UniBE Contributor:

Di Santo, Stefano, Seiler, Stefanie, Andereggen, Lukas, Widmer, Hans Rudolf

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1555-3892

Publisher:

Cognizant Communication Corporation

Language:

English

Submitter:

Nicole Söll

Date Deposited:

26 Feb 2018 10:24

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:08

Publisher DOI:

10.1177/0963689717721202

PubMed ID:

29113462

Uncontrolled Keywords:

GDNF Parkinson disease encapsulated cells rat transplantation

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.107956

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/107956

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