{"id":1835,"date":"2014-06-05T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2014-06-07T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:07:12","slug":"transplanted-neurons-thrive-in-parkinsons-affected-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/transplanted-neurons-thrive-in-parkinsons-affected-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplanted neurons thrive in Parkinson&#8217;s-affected brains<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Neurons transplanted into the brains of adult patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease 14 years ago are still healthy, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers checked on five patients that received transplant of dopamine-secreting neurons from fetal tissue and report that the neurons had not degenerated over time. Parkinson\u2019s disease is caused by loss of dopamine-secreting neurons and causes tremors and motor impairment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Implantation of such neurons could help treat Parkinson\u2019s disease in patients without medication, but is still offered only to a limited number of patients enrolled in clinical trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/abstract\/S2211-1247(14)00419-7\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>Cell Reports\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 5, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ole Isacson, Harvard University and McLean Hospital, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/pharmacology.medicine.dal.ca\/about\/people\/faculty_detail.cfm?ID_People=1\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Robertson<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurons transplanted into the brains of adult patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease 14 years ago are still healthy, a new study shows. Researchers checked on five patients that received transplant of dopamine-secreting neurons from fetal tissue and report that the neurons had not degenerated over time. Parkinson\u2019s disease is caused by loss of dopamine-secreting neurons and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,51,53,200,1705,1704,476],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-neurology","tag-parkinsons","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-tB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}