Neural transplantation in neurodegenerative disease : current status and new directions.
The field of neural transplantation is at a crucial stage, with important clinical trials on transplantation in patients with Parkinson's disease nearing completion and novel, alternative approaches to fetal transplantation being developed.
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, England ; New York :
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2000.
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| Series: | Novartis Foundation symposium ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cell replacement strategies for neurodegenerative disorders / Anders Björklund
- Functional analysis of fronto-striatal reconstruction by striatal grafts / Stephen B. Dunnett
- Functional reconstruction of the hippocampus : fetal versus conditionally immortal neuroepithelial stem cell grafts / H. Hodges, P. Sowinski, D. Virley, A. Nelson, T.R. Kershaw, W.P. Watson, T. Veizovic, S. Patel, A. Mora, T. Rashid, S.J. French, A. Chadwick, J.A. Gray and J.D. Sinden
- Gene transfer for neuroprotection in animal models of Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Martha C. Bohn, Bronwen Connor, Dorothy A. Kozlowski and M. Hasan Mohajeri
- Repair of corticospinal axons by transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells / Geoff Raisman
- Neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease / Olle Lindvall
- Transplantation of human fetal striatal tissue in Huntington's disease : rationale for clinical studies / Thomas B. Freeman, Robert A. Hauser, Alison E. Willing, Tanja Zigova, Paul R. Sanberg and Samuel Saporta
- Neurotransplantation in neurodegenerative disease : a survey of relevant issues in developmental neurobiology / Jack Price, Dafe Uwangho, Scott Peters, Diane Galloway and Karen Mellodew
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms in immune rejection of intracerebral neural transplants / Thomas Brevig, Erik Bo Pedersen and Bente Finsen
- Porcine neural xenografts : what are the issues? / Roger A. Barker
- Gene transfer techniques for the delivery of GDNF in Parkinson's disease / Jean-Luc Ridet, Nicole Déglon and Patrick Aebischer
- Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus / Gerd Kempermann and Fred H. Gage
- Neural stem cells are uniquely suited for cell replacement and gene therapy in the CNS / Vaclav Ourednik, Jitka Ourednik, Kook I. Park, Y.D. Teng, Karen A. Aboody, Kurtis I. Auguste, Rosanne M. Taylor, Barbara A. Tate and Evan Y. Snyder
- Functional repair with neural stem cells / John D. Sinden, Paul Stroemer, Gregory Grigoryan, Sara Patel, Sarah J. French and Helen Hodges
- Remyelinating the demyelinated CNS / W.F. Blakemore, P.M. Smith and R.J.M. Franklin.