Parkinson’s Disease: Kyoto Univ conducted transplant surgery using human iPS cells
Kyoto University School of Medicine Hospital reports that we transplanted cells to human subjects using human iPS cells (derived from dopamine neural progenitor cells) in the treatment of Parkinson ‘s disease.
2. About surgery
(1) Schedule
Place of implementation
Kyoto University Medical School Hospital
Surgical period
October 2018
Operator
Neurosurgical Department Takayuki Kikuchi Doctor and 2 others
(2) Surgical result
Approximately 2.4 million dopamine neural progenitor cells were transplanted to the brain’s husked Note 2 (left side).
The operation time was 3 hours and 1 minute.
This surgery time also includes the time to prepare transplanted cells.
CiRA (Sila) | iPS Cell Research Laboratory, Kyoto University
http://www.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/pressrelease/news/181109-120000.html