1993
Cellular replacement of dopamine deficit in Parkinson's disease using human fetal mesencephalic tissue: preliminary results in four patients.
Redmond D, Robbins R, Naftolin F, Marek K, Vollmer T, Leranth C, Roth R, Price L, Gjedde A, Bunney B. Cellular replacement of dopamine deficit in Parkinson's disease using human fetal mesencephalic tissue: preliminary results in four patients. Proceedings Of The Association For Research In Nervous And Mental Disease 1993, 71: 325-59. PMID: 8417471.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1992
Unilateral Transplantation of Human Fetal Mesencephalic Tissue into the Caudate Nucleus of Patients with Parkinson's Disease
Spencer D, Robbins R, Naftolin F, Marek K, Vollmer T, Leranth C, Roth R, Price L, Gjedde A, Bunney B, Sass K, Elsworth J, Kier E, Makuch R, Hoffer P, Redmond D. Unilateral Transplantation of Human Fetal Mesencephalic Tissue into the Caudate Nucleus of Patients with Parkinson's Disease. New England Journal Of Medicine 1992, 327: 1541-1548. PMID: 1435880, DOI: 10.1056/nejm199211263272201.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsActivities of Daily LivingAdultAntiparkinson AgentsCaudate NucleusCryopreservationCyclosporineDopamineFemaleFetal Tissue TransplantationHomovanillic AcidHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMesencephalonMiddle AgedMotor ActivityParkinson DiseasePutamenStereotaxic TechniquesTomography, Emission-ComputedConceptsCase patientsParkinson's diseaseMesencephalic tissueCaudate nucleusHuman fetal ventral mesencephalic tissueFetal ventral mesencephalic tissueHuman fetal mesencephalic tissueContinued disease progressionFetal dopaminergic neuronsFetal mesencephalic tissueVentral mesencephalic tissueSevere Parkinson's diseaseOptimal drug therapySigns of parkinsonismMidbrain dopamine neuronsPositron emission tomographyMonths of evaluationAntiparkinsonian medicationUnilateral transplantationDrug holidayMore medicationsStriatonigral degenerationNeurologic functionDopaminergic neuronsDrug therapy