Previews. Inhibition as a transplant-mediated therapy: a new paradigm for treating Parkinson's?

Karayannis, Theofanis; Fishell, Gordon · Cell Stem Cell · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

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.