Parkinson’s Disease: Kyoto Univ conducted transplant surgery using human iPS cells

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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

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