Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson's disease.

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Published in Nature on November 06, 2011

Authors

Sonja Kriks1, Jae-Won Shim, Jinghua Piao, Yosif M Ganat, Dustin R Wakeman, Zhong Xie, Luis Carrillo-Reid, Gordon Auyeung, Chris Antonacci, Amanda Buch, Lichuan Yang, M Flint Beal, D James Surmeier, Jeffrey H Kordower, Viviane Tabar, Lorenz Studer

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1: Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA.

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