Neurotrophic factors hold promise for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Intrathecal transplantation of polymer encapsulated cell lines genetically engineered to release neurotrophic factors provides a means to deliver them continuously behind th ...
At present, the aetiologies of many neurological and neurodegenerative diseases are unknown. However, emergence of a better understanding of these diseases, at both cellular and molecular levels, opens up the possibility of replacement therapies. The prese ...
The neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) results from the progressive loss of motoneurons, leading to death in a few years. Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), which decreases naturally occurring and axotomy-induced cell death, may ...
The gene therapy approach presented in this protocol employs a polymer encapsulated, xenogenic, transfected cell line to release human ciliary neurotrophic factor (hCNTF) for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). A tethered device, containi ...
Neurotrophic factors which act on motor neurons may provide an efficient treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In order to overcome the difficulty of administering proteins into the central nervous system, it is possible to use a gene therapy approa ...
The ability to organize cells in three dimensions (3D) is an important component of tissue engineering. This study sought to develop an extracellular matrix (ECM) equivalent with a physicochemical structure capable of supporting neurite extension from prim ...
Material surfaces that can mediate cellular interactions by the coupling of specific cell membrane receptors may allow for the design of a biomaterial that can control cell attachment, differentiation, and tissue organization. Cell adhesion proteins have b ...
The phenotypic expression of various neural cells is influenced by extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules. This study aims to develop a three-dimensional gel tailored to support neurite extension from neural cells. Laminin-derived (LN) oligopeptides CDP-GYIG ...
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been postulated to be a specific dopaminergic neurotrophic factor since it selectively enhances the survival of dopaminergic neurones in vitro. We report here that GDNF can also act as a neurotrophic f ...
The spatial control of neuronal cell attachment and differentiation via specific receptor mediated interactions, may provide an effective means for the in vitro reconstruction of neuronal cell architecture. In this study, receptor-specific oligopeptide seq ...
