Re: WebMD - Self-Transplant for Parkinson's.htm

[Guest guest]

--- Jerry /Bill:

Dr Lieberman on the NFP site had a comment on this technique. He in

short said it was not well recieved at a recent Neuro meeting and

needed more work.

Great idea but may be a little early for tis report.

Al

In shydrager@y..., Werre wrote:

> Jerry,

>

> That is a news article, not a scientific paper. It also has at

least

> one error " It's already known that embryonic stem cell transplants

can

> help people with Parkinson's disease " is wrong. In truth embryonic

stem

> cell transplants have cured PD symptoms in mice not humans. Fetal

> tissue transplants did help many PD patients for periods of months

up to

> three years. According to this article, the patient seems to still

be

> taking Sinemet and the transplant seem to have helped adsorbtion

> especially at 12 months. Since no one has ever reported results

like

> this with animals, it seems to me to be strange to experiment first

on

> humans, after all there is a good chance you could kill the person

by

> putting it directly into the brain (and where in the brain did they

put

> them).

>

> It took five years to develope the mouse experiments and find a way

to

> measure results for the pluripotent stem cells. Now these people

do it

> in no time and have a human experiment first???? Sounds too good

to be

> true. I would still like to see a reviewed scientific paper on the

> experiment. AND I would like to see it duplicated on more supervised

> tests (double blind). Since it is just an unverified news article -

it

> could be a " Pro-Life " propaganda story. How do you measure brain

> dopamine in humans? I know how they do it in mice and would not

what

> that done to me.

>

> Take care, Bill