Brain-Localizing Bone Marrow Progenitor cells

Abstract

The present inventors discovered that brain-localizing cells exist in the progenitor cell fraction of bone marrow cells. They also elucidated various characteristics of the brain-localizing cells. When these cells are infused into the bloodstream, they circulate in the blood and directly translocate into the cerebral parenchyma from the bloodstream. Furthermore, the present inventors succeeded in developing methods for efficiently preparing brain-localizing cells from bone marrow or bone marrow cells. These methods can be applied to less-invasive regenerative medicines targeting the brain and using autologous cells.

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