Development of Mesencephalic Dopamine Neurons in the Nonhuman Primate

Relationship to Survival and Growth Following Neural Transplantation

J. R. Sladek, Jr. and B. Blanchard
Department of Neuroscience
The Chicago Medical School
North Chicago, Illinois 60064.

T. J. Collier
Department of Neurological Sciences
Rush Medical School
Chicago, Illinois 60612.

J. D. Elsworth, J. R. Taylor, R. H. Roth, and D. E. Redmond
Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut 06510.


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published 2000