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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Continued progress in using own skin cells for Parkinson's!!

 

posted on Health unlock 3/26/2013:
 
Two years ago, researchers in Lund were the first in the world to re-programme human skin cells, known as fibroblasts, to dopamine-producing nerve cells without taking a detour via the stem cell stage. The research group has now gone a step further and shown that it is possible to re-programme both skin cells and support cells directly to nerve cells, in place in the brain. “The findings are the first important evidence that it is possible to re-programme other cells to become nerve cells inside the brain”, said Malin Parmar, research group leader and Reader in Neurobiology. The researchers used genes designed to be activated or de-activated using a drug. The genes were inserted into two types of human cells: fibroblasts and glia cells – support cells that are naturally present in the brain. Once the researchers had transplanted the cells into the brains of rats, the genes were activated using a drug in the animals’ drinking water. The cells then began their transformation into nerve cells. In a separate experiment on mice, where similar genes were injected into the mice’s brains, the research group also succeeded in re-programming the mice’s own glia cells to become nerve cells. “The research findings have the potential to open the way for alternatives to cell transplants in the future, which would remove previous obstacles to research, such as the difficulty of getting the brain to accept foreign cells, and the risk of tumour development”, said Malin Parmar. All in all, the new technique of direct re-programming in the brain could open up new possibilities to more effectively replace dying brain cells in conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. “We are now developing the technique so that it can be used to create new nerve cells that replace the function of damaged cells. Being able to carry out the re-programming in vivo makes it possible to imagine a future in which we form new cells directly in the human brain, without taking a detour via cell cultures and transplants”, concluded Malin Parmar. The research article is entitled ‘Generation of induced neurons via direct conversion in vivo’ and has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS): www.pnas.org/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Malin Parmar, research group leader and Reader in Neurobiology, Lund University Tel: +46 46 222 06 20, Email: Malin.Parmar@med.lu.se Olof Torper, doctoral student in neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet and Lund University Tel: +46 46 222 05 49, Email: Olof.Torper@med.lu.se Anders Björklund, Professor of Neurobiology, Lund University Tel: +46 46 222 05 40, Email: Anders.Bjorklund@med.lu.se