X-Message-Number: 15675 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Pig brains Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:39:55 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0102_01C0992A.2AE99080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" "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." http://news.bmn.com/hmsbeagle/96/notes/profile ------=_NextPart_000_0102_01C0992A.2AE99080 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15675