Hypoxia preconditioned neural xenografts promote repair of brain tissue after stroke
Rentsch, N. H.; Weber, R. Z.; Buil, B. A.; Bodenmann, C.; Zurcher, K. J.; Budny, V.; Generali, M.; Tackenberg, C.; Rust, R.
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Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, yet no effective regenerative therapies exist. While cell-based therapies have shown promise in preclinical animal models, their clinical application remains limited due to poor survival of transplanted cells in the ischemic stroke environment. Hypoxic preconditioning has emerged as a strategy to potentially enhance graft survival, but the cellular mechanisms and translational relevance in human iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) are not fully understood. Here, we tested whether hypoxic preconditioning of NPCs affects their molecular and functional properties including proliferation and survival in vitro and after transplantation into a stroke mouse model. Hypoxic preconditioning enhanced proliferation and glial differentiation in vitro, improved cell survival post-transplantation, and enhanced regeneration-associated tissue responses such as vascular remodeling in the peri-infarct brain. These findings suggest that hypoxic preconditioning is a clinically translatable approach to increase the NPC graft survival in the post-stroke brain.
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