The case of the frozen addicts

Description:

An account of the treatment of patients who had used tainted synthetic heroin and, as a result, were unable to speak or move. Relates how attempting to treat them led to research in the use of fetal tissue transplants in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease and other degenerative brain disorders.

subjects: Case studies,  Substantia Nigra,  Transplantation,  Parkinson's disease,  Methylphenyltetrahydropyridine,  Fetal tissues,  Designer drugs,  Brain Tissue Transplantation,  Physiological effect,  Fetal Tissue Transplantation,  Animal models,  Therapy,  Parkinson Disease,  Toxicology,  Embryology,  Case Reports