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Transplanted Cells Could 'Catch' Parkinson Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Neurons grafted into the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease fourteen years ago have developed Lewy body pathology, the defining pathology for the disease, according to research by Jeffrey H. Kordower, PhD, and associates. The finding suggest that Parkinson’s disease is an ongoing process that can affect cells grafted into the brain in the same way the disease affects host dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain. (source: rush.edu)
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