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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2026

Clinical trial highlights: Dopamine cell-replacement therapies.

Saeed Kayhanian, Roger A Barker

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Saeed KayhanianDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Roger A BarkerDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterised by motor features, many of which relate to the loss of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway. The use of grafted cells to replace the lost dopaminergic neurons as a therapy for Parkinson's has been explored since the 1980s, with mixed clinical outcomes. Much of the heterogeneity in outcomes has been related to the major problems with the cell source for these trials, being derived from human fetal brain tissue. It is, however, now possible to derive authentic midbrain dopamine cells from human pluripotent stem cells and several first-in-human clinical trials are now underway to explore this approach.

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Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyClinical Trials as TopicDopaminergic NeuronsParkinson DiseaseStem Cell TransplantationHumansPluripotent Stem CellsCell therapyclinical trialsneurosurgeryParkinson's diseasestem cell

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PMID41289213
PMCPMC13347564

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