Nature Medicine
4, 669 - 670 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0698-669
Neuronal grafts for Huntington's diseasePhilippe Horellou
& Jacques MalletLaboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire de la, Neurotransmission et des Processus Dégénératifs Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris, France Embryonic striatal neurons transplanted into marmoset brains become integrated into host tissue and induce functional recovery in a primate model of Huntington's disease (pages 727−729). REFERENCES
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