Update on fetal transplantation: The Swedish experience

Movement Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 83-87

  Lindvall, Olle ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dopamine neurons; Fetal tissue; Parkinson's disease; Positron emission tomography; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 0031920326     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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