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Transplantation of Newborn Brain Tissue into Adult Kainic-Acid-Lesioned Neostriatum

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Neural Transplants

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Other chapters in this volume detail many of the studies that have so far been performed indicating that transplanted tissue can survive in host brain and that it is immunologically privileged, apparently because it lies behind the blood-brain barrier.

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  1. Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1W5, Canada

    P. L. McGeer, H. Kimura & E. G. McGeer

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McGeer, P.L., Kimura, H., McGeer, E.G. (1984). Transplantation of Newborn Brain Tissue into Adult Kainic-Acid-Lesioned Neostriatum. In: Sladek, J.R., Gash, D.M. (eds) Neural Transplants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4685-2_15

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