Response to Dopaminergic Drugs After Fetal Tissue Transplantation. Preliminary Report
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319 From 1987 to the present our Cuban Centre has performed more than 30 foetal nigral transplants to the striatum in patients with Parkinson's disease. To study the improvement reported in dopaminergic drug response and the decrease L-Dopa daily dose together with better motor performance /1/, the present pharmacological trial was applied to four Parkinsonian patients, who underwent stereotactic implan-tations of foetal ventral mesencephalon dissociated cells.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Neural Transplantation & Plasticity
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992