First patient receives milestone stem cell-based transplant for Parkinson Disease at Lund University, Sweden.

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On 13th of February, a transplant of stem cell-derived nerve cells was administered to a person with Parkinson’s at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. The product has been developed by Lund University and it is now being tested in patients for the first time. The transplantation product is generated from embryonic stem cells and functions to replace the dopamine nerve cells which are lost in the parkinsonian brain. This patient was the first of eight with Parkinson’s disease who will receive the transplant.

A total of eight patients from Sweden and the UK will undergo transplantation at Skåne University Hospital, which has a long tradition of this type of surgery. In fact, the surgical instrument used in the current trial was developed by the university hospital for cell transplantation as early as the 1980s. At this time, stem cells were not available, and instead, neurosurgeons transplanted nerve cells derived from foetal tissue.

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[Williemom]

that sounds very interesting. There is always HOPE!

[HugoRipanykhazov]

I wonder why foetal Stem cells weren't available at that time? That makes no sense? Aren't most foetal cells the stem type?

[Hidden in reply to HugoRipanykhazov]

Yes tgey were and transplants were done.

[HugoRipanykhazov]

So the Swedish Study shows overwhelming statistical success (in a tiny study) in turning the stem cells into dopamine-producing cells when implanted, but as my PD doctor tells me, the results are so inconclusive that this isnt regarded as a potential treatment?

(And Lund University is doing a further tiny study?)