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From: "Jan Coetzee" <>
Subject: Pig brains
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:39:55 -0500

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"As a model for treating Parkinson's, the idea of using pig cells was elegant: 
Because the mammalian brain is preserved to a large degree across species, 
Jacoby explains, it seemed possible to transfer dopamine-producing cells from 
the pig brain to human brain, function intact. "Pig neural cells are 
functionally indistinguishable from human fetal neural cells," he notes, "and 
they are going through rapid growth."

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