Assessing fetal nerve cell grafts in Parkinson's disease

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作者
Braak, Heiko [1 ]
Del Tredici, Kelly [1 ]
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[1] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Inst Clin Neuroanat, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
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10.1038/nm0508-483
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Three postmortem studies examine long-term fetal transplants in subjects with advanced Parkinson's disease. The findings-such as the development of parkinsonian pathology in some transplanted neurons-underscore the limitations of this approach.
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