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Neural Transplantation in Mammalian Brain: Some Conceptual and Technical Considerations

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Neural Tissue Transplantation Research

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Neural transplantation, in recent years, has attracted the attention of many individuals in the field of neuroscience. Contrary to the notion held by many investigators, who have Just entered into this field of research, transplantation of neural tissues has a long and multifaceted history. The early investigators, with their relatively unsophisticated histological methods and instruments of observation, were able to distinguish various histological characteristics of viability, differentiation, necrosis, and degeneration of the neural transplants. Their critical, insightful, and well-documented observations, strewn unobtrusively in the literature, provide an important basis for various conceptualizations. These along with the findings made by some investigators recently, and various considerations on technical aspects of neural transplantation are presented in this chapter.

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Das, G.D. (1983). Neural Transplantation in Mammalian Brain: Some Conceptual and Technical Considerations. In: Wallace, R.B., Das, G.D. (eds) Neural Tissue Transplantation Research. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5539-0_1

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