Signaling of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Its Receptor GFRα1 Induce Nurr1 and Pitx3 to Promote Survival of Grafted Midbrain-Derived Neural Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Parkinson Disease

Transplantation of Undifferentiated Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Protects against 6-Hydroxydopamine Neurotoxicity in the Rat

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Expression of GDNF receptors GFRα1 and RET is preserved in substantia nigra pars compacta of aging Asian Indians

(2010) Phalguni Anand Alladi et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL NEUROANATOMY

Glioma cancer stem cells induce immunosuppressive macrophages/microglia

(2010) Adam Wu et al.   NEURO-ONCOLOGY

Foxa2 and Nurr1 Synergistically Yield A9 Nigral Dopamine Neurons Exhibiting Improved Differentiation, Function and Cell Survival

(2010) Hyun-Seob Lee et al.   STEM CELLS

Effects of GDNF pretreatment on function and survival of transplanted fetal ventral mesencephalic cells in the 6-OHDA rat model of Parkinson's disease

(2009) Lukas Andereggen et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Generation of dopaminergic neurons from human fetal mesencephalic progenitors after co-culture with striatal-conditioned media and exposure to lowered oxygen

(2009) Shuang Liu et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN

Pitx3 potentiates Nurr1 in dopamine neuron terminal differentiation through release of SMRT-mediated repression

(2009) F. M. J. Jacobs et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Identification of transplantable dopamine neuron precursors at different stages of midbrain neurogenesis

(2009) Marie E. Jönsson et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Anatomical and functional reconstruction of the nigrostriatal pathway by intranigral transplants

(2009) Afsaneh Gaillard et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Imaging neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease

(2008) Nicola Pavese et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Functional effect of FGF2- and FGF8-expanded ventral mesencephalic precursor cells in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

(2008) Pia Jensen et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Wnt5a-treated midbrain neural stem cells improve dopamine cell replacement therapy in parkinsonian mice

(2008) Clare L. Parish et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Decreased NURR1 gene expression in patients with Parkinson's disease

(2008) Weidong Le et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Absolute requirement of GDNF for adult catecholaminergic neuron survival

(2008) Alberto Pascual et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Recovery of functional deficits following early donor age ventral mesencephalic grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

(2008) E.M. Torres et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Etiopathogenesis of Parkinson Disease: A New Beginning?

(2008) Weidong Le et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

GDNF — A potential target to treat addiction

(2008) Sebastien Carnicella et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Emerging restorative treatments for Parkinson's disease

(2008) Tomas Deierborg et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Transcriptional regulation of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons: The full circle of life and death

(2007) Kambiz N. Alavian et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS