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Oligodendrocyte-type 2 astrocyte-derived trophic factors increase survival of developing dopamine neurons through the inhibition of apoptotic cell death.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 9 Oct 2000
Sortwell C E, Daley B F, Pitzer M R, McGuire S O, Sladek J R, Collier T J
Abstract excerpt
Survival of embryonic dopamine (DA) neurons is extremely low (5-20%) following transplantation. Strategies to increase this survival are critical to the future of transplantation for Parkinson's disease. We demonstrate here that a factor(s) released from striatal oligodendrocyte-type 2 astrocytes (SO2A) greatly improves the survival and phenotype expression of mesencephalic DA neurons in culture while...
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