Transplantation of human umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cells induces recovery of motor dysfunction in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

If we had any stroke leadership or strategy this research would be followed up to see if it would help stroke survivors. But we have neither because we have fucking failures of stroke associations. You're screwed, your children will be screwed, your grandchildren will be screwed unless we destroy and start over the stroke associations.  Storm the castles.
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Authors Chen C, Duan J, Shen A, Wang W, Song H, Liu Y, Lu X, Wang X, You Z, Han Z, Han F
Received 21 October 2015
Accepted for publication 4 December 2015
Published 4 April 2016 Volume 2016:4 Pages 23—33
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JN.S98835
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Editor who approved publication: Prof. Dr. Hari Shanker Sharma

Chao Chen,^1,* Jing Duan,^1,* Aifang Shen,^2,* Wei Wang,¹ Hao Song,¹ Yanming Liu,¹ Xianjie Lu,¹ Xiaobing Wang,² Zhiqing You,¹ Zhongchao Han,^3,4 Fabin Han<sup>1

1</sup>Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, The Liaocheng People's Hospital, Affiliated Liaocheng Hospital, Taishan Medical University, Shandong, People's Republic of China; ²Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Liaocheng People's Hospital, Affiliated Liaocheng Hospital, Taishan Medical University, Shandong, People's Republic of China; ³The State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Hospital of Blood Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union of Medical College, Tianjin, People's Republic of China; ⁴National Engineering Research Center of Cell Products, AmCellGene Co. Ltd., TEDA, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Abstract: Human umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cells (hUCB-MNCs) were reported to have neurorestorative capacity for neurological disorders such as stroke and traumatic brain injury. This study was performed to explore if hUCB-MNC transplantation plays any therapeutic effects for Parkinson's disease (PD) in a 6-OHDA-lesioned rat model of PD. hUCB-MNCs were isolated from umbilical cord blood and administered to the striatum of the 6-OHDA-lesioned rats. The apomorphine-induced locomotive turning-overs were measured to evaluate the improvement of motor dysfunctions of the rats after administration of hUCB-MNCs. We observed that transplanted hUCB-MNCs significantly improve the motor deficits of the PD rats and that grafted hUCB-MNCs integrated to the host brains and differentiated to neurons and dopamine neurons in vivo after 16 weeks of transplantation. Our study provided evidence that transplanted hUCB-MNCs play therapeutic effects in a rat PD model by differentiating to neurons and dopamine neurons.