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Fetal Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

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Surgical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders

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Abstract

Current attempts to treat idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) and parkinsonism with transplants of dopaminergic tissue began in the 1970s, with the grafting of tissue into animal models of parkinsonism. The history of brain transplantation, however, is over a century old, dating at least back to the unsuccessful attempts by W.G. Thompson in 1890 to transplant adult cortex to adult cortex in cats and dogs (1). Table 1 lists some of the research precursors of modern fetal tissue efforts.

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Greene, P., Fahn, S. (2003). Fetal Tissue Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. In: Tarsy, D., Vitek, J.L., Lozano, A.M. (eds) Surgical Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-312-5_22

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