Zonisamide promotes survival of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons in the striatum of female rats.

ABSTRACT: The transplantation of dopaminergic (DA) progenitors derived from pluripotent stem cells improves the behavior of Parkinson's disease model animals. However, the survival of DA progenitors is low, and the final yield of DA neurons is only approximately 0.3%-2% the number of transplanted cells. Zonisamide (ZNS) increases the number of survived DA neurons upon the transplantation of mouse-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived DA progenitors in the rat striatum. In this study, we induced DA progenitors from human iPS cells and transplanted them into the striatum of female rats with daily administration of ZNS. The number of survived DA neurons was evaluated 1 and 4 months after transplantation by immunohistochemistry, which revealed that the number of survived DA neurons was significant

SUBMITTER: Miyawaki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497107 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature