Parkinson’s Patient, After Nerve Cell Transplant, Showed ‘Major’ Benefits for Nearly 25 Years

Lund University researchers followed a Parkinson’s disease patient who had undergone neuronal transplantation, and reported the patient experienced long-term “major clinical benefits,” including the restoration of normal dopamine function. Importantly, transplant-derived cell reinnervation was evident for almost 25 years, although the disease again began to progress some 14 years after transplantation. The study, “…