Neurodegenerative disease: Towards transplant therapy
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 572 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.120
Author: Natasha Bray
The long-term safety and efficacy of using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons to replace midbrain dopaminergic neurons lost in Parkinson disease (PD) have not been tested in primates. Kikuchi et al. grafted human iPSC-derived midbrain dopaminergic progenitors into the putamen of macaques that
Source: Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Natasha Bray Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research
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