Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Transplantation of enteric nervous system stem cells rescues nitric oxide synthase deficient mouse colon

  • Conor J. McCann,
  • Julie E. Cooper,
  • Dipa Natarajan,
  • Benjamin Jevans,
  • Laura E. Burnett,
  • Alan J. Burns,
  • Nikhil Thapar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15937
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Isolated human and mouse enteric nervous system stem cells (ENSCs) are capable of integrating and promoting innervation of the mouse colon. Here the authors show that transplantation of mouse ENSCs into a mouse model of human enteric neuropathy restores colon motility.