Endocrine Abstracts

For more than a dozen years, a major combined biological and clinical research endeavour has been dedicated to the set up of new therapeutics based upon cell and gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. This research essentially takes into account two determinant characteristics of all these diseases, that can be briefly summarised as follows: 1. a neurodegenerative disease is due to the loss of one or a small number of specific populations of neurones, allowing in some ca...