Summary
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the potential to play a role in autologous repair of central nervous system injury or disease, circumventing both the complications associated with immune rejection of allogenic cells, and many of the ethical concerns associated with embryonic stem cell use. Human bone marrow-derived MSCs can be extracted relatively simply from the marrow of adult patients and maintained and expanded in culture. More importantly, it has been previously demonstrated that MSCs have the capacity to differentiate into neurons and glia in vitro when grown under appropriate conditions. Multipotent MSCs have also been successfully used in transplantation studies in animal models of disease as diverse as demyelination, stroke, trauma and Parkinson’s disease. MSCs therefore provide an attractive and practical source of stem cells for reparative therapy in patients, and in this paper we describe methods for the reproducible culture and neural differentiation of human MSCs generated from patient marrow.
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Gordon, D., Scolding, N.J. (2009). Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Culture for Neural Transplantation. In: Gordon, D., Scolding, N. (eds) Neural Cell Transplantation. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 549. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-931-4_8
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