Potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in management of Alzheimer's disease in female rats.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been called the disease of the century with significant clinical and socioeconomic impacts. Pharmacological treatment has limited efficacy and only provides symptomatic relief without long-term cure. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to develop novel and effective medications for AD. Stem cell-based therapy is a promising approach to handling neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the possible therapeutic role of single intravenous injection of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) after 4 months in management of AD in the experimental model. The work also extended to compare the therapeutic potential of BM-MSCs with 2 conventional therapies of AD; rivastigmine and cerebrolysin administered daily. BM-MSCs were able to home at the injured brains and produced significant increases in the number of positive cells for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and survivin expression, as well as selective AD indicator-1 (seladin-1) and nestin gene expression. Histopathological examination indicated that BM-MSCs could remove beta-amyloid plaques from hippocampus. Significant improvement in these biomarkers was similar to or better sometimes than the reference drugs, clearly showing the potential therapeutic role of BM-MSCs against AD through their anti-apoptotic, neurogenic and immunomodulatory properties.
['Salem|Ahmed M|AM|', 'Ahmed|Hanaa H|HH|', 'Atta|Hazem M|HM|', 'Ghazy|Mohamed A|MA|', 'Aglan|Hadeer A|HA|']
D000544:Alzheimer Disease D000818:Animals D001854:Bone Marrow Cells D002454:Cell Differentiation D064987:Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy D002478:Cells, Cultured D004195:Disease Models, Animal D005260:Female D006624:Hippocampus D008297:Male D045164:Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells Alzheimer's disease Rats Rivastigmine Cerebrolysin