Histological evidence of fetal pig neural cell survival after transplantation into a patient with Parkinson's disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 350-353

  Deacon, Terrence ^a   Schumacher, James ^a,c   Dinsmore, Jonathan ^d   Thomas, Christine ^b   Palmer, Prather ^b   Kott, Stephen ^b   Edge, Albert ^d   Penney, Dana ^b   Kassissieh, Samir ^b   Dempsey, Peter ^b   Isacson, Ole ^a,c,e  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GENVEC INC   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

AGED; ANIMALS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 16944366484     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0397-350     Document Type: Article

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