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Towards Cell Replacement Therapy in Parkinson's Disease. Proteoglycans Towards cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease. Proteoglycans and Nogo-A as modulators of axonal growth in midbrain dopaminergic neurons Kurowska, Zuzanna 2012 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Kurowska, Z. (2012). Towards cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease. Proteoglycans and Nogo-A as modulators of axonal growth in midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund Univeristy. 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LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 Download date: 03. Oct. 2021 Academic dissertation Towards cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease Proteoglycans and Nogo-A as modulators of axonal growth in midbrain dopaminergic neurons by Zuzanna Kurowska With the approval of the Faculty Medicine at Lund University this thesis will be defended on September 21st, 2012 at 9.15 in Sagerfalksalen, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, BMC A10, Lund, Sweden Faculty Opponent Professor Hans-Georg Kuhn Department for Clinical Neurosciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Towards cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease Proteoglycans and Nogo-A as modulators of axonal growth in midbrain dopaminergic neurons Zuzanna Kurowska Neural Plasticity and Repair Unit Department of Experimental Medical Science Faculty of Medicine Lund University, 2012 Cover description The artwork at the front page is a modified version of a photograph taken by Olle Lindvall during the first clinical trial of ventral mesencephalon tissue transplantation into brains of patients with Parkinson's disease, at Lund University Hospital in 1987. The photo was taken before the transplantation and depicts a patient (‘Patient 1’) performing one of the motor tasks, and a camera operator (Patrik Brundin) recording it. The graft in the brain of Patient 1, post mortem, was one of the subjects of study in this thesis (paper 1). The artwork was prepared together with Mariusz Libel. Copyright © Zuzanna Kurowska and the respective publisher Faculty of Medicine, Department of Experimental Medical Science Doctoral Dissertation Series 2012:73 ISBN 978-91-87189-36-4 ISSN 165-28-22-0 Printed in Sweden by Media-Tryck, Lund University Lund 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents 7 Lay summary 5 Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning 7 Papers included in this thesis 9 Abbreviations 10 Background 11 Parkinson’s disease 11 Therapies for Parkinson’s disease 12 Cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease 13 Challenges in cell replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease 14 Dopaminergic differentiation of embryonic stem cells 16 Proteoglycans – potential regulators of dopaminergic differentiation 17 Non-permissive environment of the adult CNS 19 Nogo-A - inhibitor of axonal growth 20 Aims of the thesis 22 Materials and Methods 23 Nogo-A knock-out and wild type mice 23 Ventral mesencephalon primary cell culture 23 6-OHDA model 25 LUHMES cell culture 26 Metabolic radiolabeling and isolation of PGs and GAGs 28 Microarray analysis 29 High content screening - Cellomics analysis 29 Immunolabeling 31 Results and discussion 32 Graft can survive over two decades 32 Neurocan and 3-O-sulfotransferase 5 are upregulated in maturing midbrain neurons in vitro 35 Nogo-A promotes neurite growth of midbrain neurons in vitro 38 Intracellular Nogo-A facilitates initiation and branching of neurites in midbrain dopaminergic neurons in vitro 39 Nogo-A may play a pro-survival role in adult nigral dopaminergic neurons 41 Concluding remarks 43 Acknowledgements 45 References 47 Appendix 59 Lay summary Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common, after Alzheimer’s disease, neurodegenerative disease in man. Stiffness in joints, shaky hands, and slowness of movements make it difficult for people with PD to complete normal daily tasks like buttoning up a shirt. Additionally, PD affects memory, mood, sleep and the function of the gastro-intestinal tract. Over time, the disease progresses gradually and worsens. We still do not understand fully the mechanisms that cause PD, but what we do know is that the gradual loss of movement control is caused by successive death of specific cells – dopaminergic neurons, in a particular region of a brain known as (from Latin) the substantia nigra pars compacta. The dopaminergic neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter, which regulates a large part of the movement-governing system in the brain. The current most common therapies for PD rely on restoration of the dopamine levels in this system. Usually, a patient takes pills of a medication called L-DOPA a few times per day and can control his or her body movements again. Although initially this therapy works, the dose of L- DOPA required to bring the relief gradually increases, and eventually this treatment must be discontinued due to troublesome side effects. Hence, the new therapies for PD are warranted. One of the potential treatments for PD is based on the idea that dopamine can be provided by young dopaminergic neurons injected directly into the patients’ brain. Those neurons are taken from donated, electively aborted embryos, from the site where the substantia nigra would be formed. In several clinical trials, around 400 patients received this treatment worldwide, and although the therapeutic effects varied, some individuals experienced major improvement, even for up to 16 years, and could completely set aside L-DOPA. Other patients, however, did not experience any symptomatic relief and even developed some movement complications, so the clinical trials are currently on hold. Careful analysis of the clinical data from all of these trials, together with experiments, including ones in animal models of PD and in (dopaminergic) cell cultures, will deepen the understanding on how to improve cell replacement therapy in PD. In my first project, we have analyzed the survival and integration of the graft in a patient who underwent the transplantation in Lund, in 1987, as one of the first transplanted cases in the world. Clinically, the patient did not show symptomatic relief in response to the transplantation. After examining the brain postmortem, we 5 observed only a very small surviving graft. In addition, we saw signs of PD-like pathology in the transplanted neurons. Nonetheless, the graft survived in this brain for 22 years and such a long graft-life has never been reported elsewhere. It is certain that in the future, embryonic tissue will not be routinely used as a cell source for transplantation therapy in PD. Instead, stem cells will be differentiated to dopaminergic neurons and subsequently injected into the brain. Although research in recent years has shown that embryonic stem cells can be a safe and an efficient source for obtaining transplants that survive and reverse the PD-like symptoms in animal models, the differentiation of embryonic stem cells to dopaminergic neurons is still not fully understood, and is therefore difficult to control. Proteoglycans (proteins with long sugar chains attached) may be engaged in differentiation of dopaminergic neurons, as they regulate the process of brain development in vertebrate embryos. My second project aimed at defining the genes encoding proteoglycans and the enzymatic machinery fine-tuning their structure that is involved in the differentiation of dopaminergic neurons. From around 2000 proteoglycan-related genes, we identified two (neurocan and HS3ST5) that could potentially enhance the differentiation efficiency of dopaminergic neurons from stem cells. Our results may serve as a starting point for further functional studies. In order to bring back, at least partially, the control of movement to an individual with PD, the grafted dopaminergic neurons have to survive, and also integrate with the neurons of the host brain, i.e. extend neurites, form synapses and release dopamine. In my third project, we have been studying how a protein called Nogo-A affects dopaminergic cell survival and neurite growth. Nogo-A is a strong growth- stopping agent found within the brain and spinal cord (hence the name ‘no-go’). Interestingly, in recent years, some studies showed the growth- and survival- promoting role of Nogo-A in neurons. Our results supported this notion and we were first ones to suggest Nogo-A roles in dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta. Perhaps upon grafting into the PD brain, the dopaminergic neurons stop producing Nogo-A and this may be the reason why many die or do not integrate with the host neurons following the operation? The results of initial clinical trials, studies in animal parkinsonian models
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