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Advancing Cell Replacement Therapies

Researchers are also trying to develop ways to replace dopamine with transplanted cells. Cell replacement therapies have been used investigationally in a few hundred people worldwide, most with surgically transplanted fetal tissue. In many cases, these transplants have provided long-term benefit, but a significant proportion of people have not been helped, and several have developed debilitating involuntary movements known as dyskinesias.

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