Previews. Inhibition as a transplant-mediated therapy: a new paradigm for treating Parkinson's?
In this issue of Cell Stem Cell,Martínez-Cerdeño and colleagues (2010) transplant interneuron precursors from the MGE into the striatum of a rat model of Parkinson's disease and observe a 5% increase in the endogenous GABAergic interneuron population resulting in behavioral benefits in both lesioned and wild-type animals.
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Smilow Neuroscience Program and the Department Cell Biology, Smilow Research Center, New York University School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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