Neurodegenerative Diseases (Treatment)
Neural Progenitor Cells: Prospects for Therapy
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 29th, 1999
"The etiology of many neurodegenerative diseases has been identified in recent years," stated L.S. Shihabuddin and colleagues from the Salk Institute Biological Studies, California. "Treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disease could focus on one or more steps that lead to cell loss. In the past decade, cell therapy and/or ex vivo gene therapy have emerged as possible strategies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases."
Shihabuddin et al. published the results of their study in Molecular...
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