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Article: Transplanting embryonic nerve cells in stroke patients' brains safe, study finds.
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- Transplant News
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- February 29, 2000
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Transplanting embryonic nerve cells into the brains of stroke patients is safe and warrants further study, according to a report presented recently at the 25Th International Stroke Conference of the American Stroke Association.
Dr. D. Kondziolka and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn. Presented the results of a study of neurotransplantation in 9 men and 3 women who had suffered strokes about 2 years earlier. The average age of the group was 61 years, and in all cases, their strokes were confined to the basal ganglia. All were neurologically stable at the time of surgery.
The first 4 patients each received implants of 2 million neurons ...