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Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds.

ABSTRACT: Cell replacement therapy with human pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons has the potential to ameliorate neurodegenerative dysfunction and central nervous system injuries, but reprogrammed neurons are dissociated and spatially disorganized during transplantation, rendering poor cell survival, functionality and engraftment in vivo. Here, we present the design of three-dimensional (3D) microtopographic scaffolds, using tunable electrospun microfibrous polymeric substrates that promote in situ stem cell neuronal reprogramming, neural network establishment and support neuronal engraftment into the brain. Scaffold-supported, reprogrammed neuronal networks were successfully grafted into organotypic hippocampal brain slices, showing an ? 3.5-fold improvement in neurite outgrowth and increased action potential firing relative to injected isolated cells. Transplantation of scaffold-supported neuronal networks into mouse brain striatum improved survival ? 38-fold at the injection site relative to injected isolated cells, and allowed delivery of multiple neuronal subtypes. Thus, 3D microscale biomaterials represent a promising platform for the transplantation of therapeutic human neurons with broad neuro-regenerative relevance.

SUBMITTER: Carlson AL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4800432 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds.

Carlson Aaron L AL Bennett Neal K NK Francis Nicola L NL Halikere Apoorva A Clarke Stephen S Moore Jennifer C JC Hart Ronald P RP Paradiso Kenneth K Wernig Marius M Kohn Joachim J Pang Zhiping P ZP Moghe Prabhas V PV

Nature communications 20160317

Cell replacement therapy with human pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons has the potential to ameliorate neurodegenerative dysfunction and central nervous system injuries, but reprogrammed neurons are dissociated and spatially disorganized during transplantation, rendering poor cell survival, functionality and engraftment in vivo. Here, we present the design of three-dimensional (3D) microtopographic scaffolds, using tunable electrospun microfibrous polymeric substrates that promote in situ ste ...[more]

PMID: 26983594

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Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds.

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Generation and transplantation of reprogrammed human neurons in the brain using 3D microtopographic scaffolds.

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