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Old 04-08-2008, 05:28 PM
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Fetal Cells Used To Treat Parkinson's Disease May Not Function Long Term, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2008) — Neurons grafted into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease fourteen years ago have developed Lewy body pathology, the defining pathology for the disease, according to research by Jeffrey H. Kordower, PhD, and associates and published in the April 6 issue of Nature Medicine.

The finding suggest that Parkinson’s disease is an ongoing process that can affect cells grafted into the brain in the same way the disease affects host dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain, according to Kordower, who is the lead author of the study and a neuroscientist at Rush University Medical Center.

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This has been my argument all along. That by replacing these neurons and not finding what is causing them to die off or form Lewy bodies, they wouldn't last very long. I am surprised they lasted 14 years. However, I'd take the 14 years any day.

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