Nature Medicine
3, 497 - 498 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-497
Neurotrophic factor therapy Keeping scoreFranz HeftiMerck Sharp & Dohme, Neuroscience Research Centre, Harlow, Essex, UK Implants of polymer-encapsulated cells producing CNTF protect neurons of the striatum and cortex from drug-induced destruction in a monkey model of Huntington's disease. REFERENCES
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