In March 1993, a patient with idiopathic Parkinson disease who had received an adrenal brain autograft 6 years before underwent bilateral stereotactic transplantation of a mesencephalic cell suspension into the striatum, in order to prevent further deterioration in his neurological condition. During the ...
The purpose of this work to characterize the human foetal adrenal gland (HFAG) by studying norepinephrine (NE), epinephrine (E), and dopamine (DA) levels in foetuses with ages ranging from 10 to 18 weeks, as a source of chromaffin cells for basic and clinical research, in the treatment of Parkinson's dis...
Las enfermedras del Servicio de Neurología-Neurocirugía del Hospital de Carabineros Sede Colón, que participamos en la realización de este Programa, en resumen, podemos decir con gran satisfacción que, por una parte, los objetivos del programa se cumplieron a cabalidad y, por otro lado, los problema...
De los seis trabajos presentados, dos corresponden a la enfermedad de Parkinson, modelo de muerte neuronal, y cuyo estudio continúa a nivel mundial en lo clínico y lo terapéutico. Otros dos trabajos muestran la amplia experiencia del Instituto en la parasitosis más frecuente del sistema nervioso en n...
We report our preliminary results related to CT-guided stereotactic transplantation of foetal ventral mesencephalic cell suspension into the stiatum of five patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. The mean age was 51 years, the evolution time of the disease ranged from 7 to 14 years, and all of the...
