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. 2022 Oct 11;17(10):2167-2171.
doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.09.002. Epub 2022 Sep 29.

Panning for gold: Purifying mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitors differentiated from human pluripotent stem cells

Qingyuan Tang  1 , Jeffrey S Schweitzer  2 , Bin Song  3
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Panning for gold: Purifying mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitors differentiated from human pluripotent stem cells

Qingyuan Tang et al. Stem Cell Reports. .

Abstract

In a recently published study, Xu et al. used two surface markers, CLSTN2 and PTPRO, to generate highly purified donor dopaminergic neurons and achieved stable and predictable therapeutic outcomes by transplantation into the brain of PD animal models (Xu et al., 2022).

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Conflict of interest The authors declare no competing interests.

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Main strategies for enrichment hPSC-derived ventral mDA progenitors
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