From Skin to Brain: A Parkinson's Disease Patient Transplanted with His Own Cells.

From Skin to Brain: A Parkinson's Disease Patient Transplanted with His Own Cells.
Cell Stem Cell. 2020 Jul 02;27(1):8-10
Authors: Parmar M, Björklund A
Abstract
In a pioneering study in New England Journal of Medicine, Schweitzer et al. (2020) report on a patient with Parkinson's disease who received a graft of dopamine neurons obtained from in vitro differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells, derived from the patient's own skin fibroblasts, showing the feasibility of autologous transplantation for dopamine cell replacement.
PMID: 32619520 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cell Stem Cell - July 1, 2020 Category: Stem Cells Authors: Parmar M, Björklund A Tags: Cell Stem Cell Source Type: research