Monday, May 19, 2008

Neural cell transplants may help those with Parkinson's disease

Source: Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair
Date: May 19, 2008

Summary:

The current issue of CELL TRANSPLANTATION (Vol. 17:4) features a number of publications by researchers seeking new ways to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD), a neurological disease characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor and slowed physical movements related to insufficient levels of dopamine (DA) in the basal ganglia of the brain, by using primate models to examine the potential therapy role of transplanted cells.