Publication in nat rev neurosci
The future of stem cell therapies for Parkinson disease Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegen- erative disorder that is characterized by relatively focal degeneration of mesencephalic dopamine (mesDA) neurons, the cell bodies of which are located within the substantia nigra pars compacta in the ventral mes- encephalon (VM)1. The associated loss of axonal pro- jections and subsequent d
