Endocrine Abstracts

Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the loss of specific subsets of neurons, and whilst drug therapies exist for some of these disorders (eg Parkinson's disease) none of them are curative. This has led to the search for a cell-based therapy, the most successful being the transplantation of human fetal tissue into Parkinson's patients. However, there are ethical and logistical problems associated with this tissue collection, hence an alternative source has been soug...