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Long-term Clinical Outcome of Fetal Cell Transplantation for Parkinson Disease

Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Marios Politis, Paola Piccini, Niccolò E. Mencacci, Kailash P. Bhatia, Marjan Jahanshahi, Håkan Widner, Stig Rehncrona, Patrik Brundin, Anders Björklund,

JAMA Neurology · 2013 · 293 citations · 18 references

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Abstract

The results from these 2 cases indicate that dopaminergic cell transplantation can offer very long-term symptomatic relief in patients with Parkinson disease and provide proof-of-concept support for future clinical trials using fetal or stem cell therapies.

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