Fetal ventral mesencephalon of human and rat origin maintained in vitro and transplanted to 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats gives rise to grafts rich in dopaminergic neurons

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-57

  Spenger, Christian ^a   Haque, Nadia S K ^b,d   Studer, Lorenz ^a   Evtouchenko, Ljudmila ^a   Wagner, Bendicht ^a   Bühler, Beatrice ^a   Lendahl, Urban ^c   Dunnett, Stephen B ^b   Seiler, Rolf W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Human embryo; Mesencephalon; Neural transplantation; Parkinson's disease; Rat; Tissue cultures

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DENSITY; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE GRAFT; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0029993877     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00227177     Document Type: Article

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