Serotonin Solves Decades-Old Mystery in Parkinson's Disease (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Serotonin Solves Decades-Old Mystery in Parkinson's Disease (4 of 4)

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This is a PET image of a Parkinson's brain that received fetal cells. This image relates to an article that appeared in the June 30, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Marios Politis of Imperial College London in London, UK, and colleagues, is titled, "Serotonergic Neurons Mediate Dyskinesia Side Effects in Parkinson's Patients with Neural Transplants."

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Image courtesy of Marios Politis

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