Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease of genetic origin that mainly affects the striatum. It has severe motor and cognitive consequences and, up to now, no treatment. Motor and cognitive functions can be restored in experimental animal models by means of intrastriatal transplantation of fetal striatal neuroblasts. We explored whether grafts of human fetal striatal tissue could survive and have detectable effects in five patients with mild to moderate Huntington's disease.

Bachoud Lévi, A., Rémy, P., Nguyen, J., Brugières, P., Lefaucheur, J., Bourdet, C., Baudic, S., Gaura, V., Maison, P., Haddad, B., Boissé, M., Grandmougin, T., Jény, R., Bartolomeo, P., Dalla Barba, G., Degos, J., Lisovoski, F., Ergis, A., Pailhous, E., Cesaro, P., Hantraye, P., Peschanski, M., Motor and cognitive improvements in patients with Huntington's disease after neural transplantation, <<THE LANCET>>, 2000; 356 (9246): 1975-1979 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/20130]

Motor and cognitive improvements in patients with Huntington's disease after neural transplantation

Bartolomeo, Paolo;Dalla Barba, Gianfranco;
2000

Abstract

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease of genetic origin that mainly affects the striatum. It has severe motor and cognitive consequences and, up to now, no treatment. Motor and cognitive functions can be restored in experimental animal models by means of intrastriatal transplantation of fetal striatal neuroblasts. We explored whether grafts of human fetal striatal tissue could survive and have detectable effects in five patients with mild to moderate Huntington's disease.
2000
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Bachoud Lévi, A., Rémy, P., Nguyen, J., Brugières, P., Lefaucheur, J., Bourdet, C., Baudic, S., Gaura, V., Maison, P., Haddad, B., Boissé, M., Grandmougin, T., Jény, R., Bartolomeo, P., Dalla Barba, G., Degos, J., Lisovoski, F., Ergis, A., Pailhous, E., Cesaro, P., Hantraye, P., Peschanski, M., Motor and cognitive improvements in patients with Huntington's disease after neural transplantation, <<THE LANCET>>, 2000; 356 (9246): 1975-1979 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/20130]
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