Outcome of cell suspension allografts in a patient with Huntington's disease
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Journal Article
Abstract
For patients with incurable neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington's (HD) and Parkinson's disease, cell transplantation has been explored as a potential treatment option. Here, we present the first clinicopathological study of a patient with HD in receipt of cell-suspension striatal allografts who took part in the NEST-UK multicenter clinical transplantation trial. Using various immunohistochemical techniques, we found a discrepancy in the survival of grafted projection neurons with respect to grafted interneurons as well as major ongoing inflammatory and immune responses to the grafted tissue with evidence of mutant huntingtin aggregates within the transplant area. Our results indicate that grafts can survive more than a decade post-transplantation, but show compromised survival with inflammation and mutant protein being observed within the transplant site. Ann Neurol 2018; 1-7.
Date Issued
2018-12-01
Date Acceptance
2018-09-27
Citation
Annals of Neurology, 2018, 84 (6), pp.950-956
ISSN
0364-5134
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
950
End Page
956
Journal / Book Title
Annals of Neurology
Volume
84
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. Annals of Neurology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Neurological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30286516
Subjects
1103 Clinical Sciences
1109 Neurosciences
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2018-10-04