Humaira Ansari, Shumaila Usman, Syed Tousif Ahmed, Shazia Hashmat.
Stem Cell Therapy: a Promising Treatment of Parkinson\'s Diseases.
Pak J Med Dentistry Jan ;10(1):76-82.

The neurodegenerative disorder is a prolonged persistence curse and effect on economic and physical challenges in an aging world. Parkinson has come in the second category of disability disorders and associated with progressive dopaminergic neuronal degeneration with severe motor complications. It is an observation that gradual disease progression causes 70% degeneration of striatal dopaminergic neurons. Globally there are around 7-10 million patients with Parkinson's disease, however, there are huge efforts for therapeutic improvement. According to studies, no single molecular pathway was pointed out as a single etiology to control disease progression due to a lack of targeted therapeutic strategies. Previously implemented symptomatic treatments include L-dopa (L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine), deep brain stimulation, and the surgical insertion of a medical device. This leads to dyskinesia, dystonia and a higher risk of major surgical complications respectively. However, not all the above-mentioned therapies can regenerate the dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson’s disease patients. Recent advances in the field of cellular therapy have shown promising outcomes by differentiation of multipotent mesenchymal stem cells into dopaminergic neurons under the influence of a regenerative substance. In this review, we have discussed the differentiation of dopaminergic neurons by using different cell types that can be used as a cellular therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s disease. The information was collected through a comprehensive search using the keywords, “Parkinson Disease, Dopamine, Brain derived neurotrophic” factor and neuron from reliable search engines, PubMed, Google Scholar and Medline reviews from the year 2010 to 2020. Keywords: Parkinson Disease; Dopamine; Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor; Neuron.

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