Figure 1. Effect of multiple MNC hUCB cell administrations on lifespan of G93A mice.
(A) Kaplan-Meier survival curves for G93A mice receiving 2.5×106 (Gr 1) or 1×106 (Gr 2) cells at symptomatic disease stage and 1×106 (Gr 3) cells pre-symptomatically. Control group was Media-injected mice (Gr 4). Significant (
) increases in survival were determined in mice receiving 1×106 cells at pre-symptomatic stage (p = 0.0015) and 2.5×106 cells at symptomatic stage (p = 0.0022) vs. the Media-injected group. Survival of the mouse group receiving 1×106 cells pre-symptomatically tended towards significance compared to survival of mice receiving same cell dose at symptomatic stage (p = 0.0595). (B) Percentages of surviving mice within age ranges. Media-injected animals survived no longer than 19.5 weeks, whereas 30% of mice receiving 2.5×106 (Gr 1, symptomatic) or 1×106 cells (Gr 3, pre-symptomatic) and 14.3% mice administered with 1×106 cells (Gr 2) at symptomatic stage survived more than 140 days and 10% of mice from Gr 3 (1×106 cells, pre-symptomatic) were alive for more than 150 days.
