| Literature DB >> 19711122 |
Oliver Cooper1, Arnar Astradsson, Penny Hallett, Harold Robertson, Ivar Mendez, Ole Isacson.
Abstract
Postmortem analyses from clinical neural transplantation trials of several subjects with Parkinson's disease revealed surviving grafted dopaminergic neurons after more than a decade. A subset of these subjects displayed isolated dopaminergic neurons within the grafts that contained Lewy body-like structures. In this review, we discuss why this isolated cell damage is unlikely to affect the overall graft function and how we can use these observations to help us to understand age-related neurodegeneration and refine our future cell replacement therapies.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19711122 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5242-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurol ISSN: 0340-5354 Impact factor: 4.849