Adición a las terapias de reemplazo basadas en células de dopamina

Saeed Kayhanian1,2, Roger A Barker1,3

  • 1Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2PY, United Kingdom sk776@cam.ac.uk rab46@cam.ac.uk.

Resumen

Este apéndice actualiza las terapias de reemplazo basadas en células dopaminérgicas al analizar tres nuevos estudios. Estos hallazgos son cruciales para avanzar en las terapias de células dopaminérgicas y los tratamientos de la enfermedad de Parkinson.

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