Reprogramming brain cells important first step for new Parkinson's therapy

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

In efforts to find new treatments for Parkinson's Disease (PD), researchers have directly reprogrammed astrocytes, the most plentiful cell type in the central nervous system, into dopamine-producing neurons. PD is marked by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain.

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