Parkinson's Disrupts Stem Cell Therapy Transplants
 

Parkinson's Disrupts Stem Cell Therapy Transplants

Dopamine neurons may not work long-term, as disease causes pathologic changes in cells

SUNDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Current therapies using stem cell transplants in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease may not work long-term, because the disease is an ongoing process that continually causes damage, new findings suggest.

Dopamine cells are sometimes transplanted into the brain of Parkinson's patients in the hope that they can replace those neurons that have degenerated. In theory, this should improve the disease's symptoms, which include tremors, stiffness of the limbs and trunk, slowed movement and impaired balance and coordination.

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