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R. Keynes et al. - FENS Winter School
R. Keynes et al. - FENS Winter School
to maintain an independent life without any medication. Delegates were shown how dopamine release from transplants can be delineated using PET. The recent identification of stem cells capable of generating a wide variety of cell phenotypes in the nervous system has also opened up new possibilities in this field. Stem cells can be found in the adult CNS, where a small population of the ependymal cells lining the ventricles divide slowly in an asymmetrical fashion to generate a group of cells that reside in the adjacent subventricular zone. These can yield all the major classes of CNS cell phenotypes after further division, migration and differentiation. They can also be isolated, expanded in a culture dish in the form of free-floating cell clumps (neurospheres), and transplanted into the adult brain, where, in the same way as grafts of foetal nigral cells,