Stem cell therapy for Alzheimer’s disease: research status and developmental trend / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease, and there are no known drugs for curing Alzheimer's disease. Stem cell transplantation provides a new therapeutic method for Alzheimer's disease. OBJECTIVE: To reveal the theme, evolutionary path and research progress of stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease, in a bid to provide reference for the research and clinical treatment of Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: A computer search of CNKI, CBM, ISI Web of knowledge, and Embace was performed with the keywords of "Alzheimer's disease" and "stem cells" + "Alzheimer's disease," in Chinese and English, respectively We conducted a visualized knowledge mapping and literature review of stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease using CiteSpace software. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The evolutionary path of research on stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease is closely related to stem cell transplantation research. The main line of this research is single and prominent, which is developed and implemented based on the keywords of "Alzheimer's disease - stem cells, neural stem cells - transplantation - bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, beta-amyloid - tissue engineering," and the core domains composed by these Human stem cell clinical trials are ongoing in the early stage. The safety, efficacy and ethical issues of stem cells should be emphasized. The regulation of stem cell differentiation should become an issue of concern, and individualized stem cell treatment should be implemented as soon as possible.