Porcine xenografts in Parkinson's disease and huntington's disease patients: Preliminary results

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-278

  Fink, J Stephen ^a,b,j   Schumacher, James M ^c   Ellias, Samuel L ^d   Palmer, E Prather ^c   Saint Hilaire, Marie ^d   Shannon, Kathleen ^e   Penn, Richard ^e   Starr, Philip ^f   VanHorne, Craig ^f   Kott, H Stephen ^c   Dempsey, Peter K ^c   Fischman, Alan J ^b   Raineri, Ronald ^g   Manhart, Carolyn ^g   Dinsmore, Jonathan ^h   Isacson, Ole ⁱ  

^a GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Primedica Corporation   (United States)

^h GENVEC INC   (United States)

ⁱ MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Huntington's disease; Parkinson's disease; Porcine; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SWINE; XENOGRAFT; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034105443     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096368970000900212     Document Type: Article

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