PROCESS FOR PRODUCING NERVE CELLS

摘要

It is intended to supply a large amount of nerve cells having been substantially isolated to thereby provide means applicable to nerve regeneration therapy for neurodegenerative diseases, nerve injury and so on. A process for producing nerve cells having been substantially isolated which comprises suspended-culturing embryonic stem cells in an acclimation medium for astrocytes or in the presence of components substantially equivalent to the acclimation medium; nerve cells thus obtained; a cell medicinal composition comprising the nerve cells as the active ingredient; and a metho d of treating a neurodegenerative disease or nerve injury by inserting the ner ve cells into a neurodegenerative site or a nerve injury site.