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SUBMITTER: Heiss JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heiss John D JD Lungu Codrin C Hammoud Dima A DA Herscovitch Peter P Ehrlich Debra J DJ Argersinger Davis P DP Sinharay Sanhita S Scott Gretchen G Wu Tianxia T Federoff Howard J HJ Zaghloul Kareem A KA Hallett Mark M Lonser Russell R RR Bankiewicz Krystof S KS
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20190530 7
<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the safety and tolerability of convection-enhanced delivery of an adeno-associated virus, serotype-2 vector carrying glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor into the bilateral putamina of PD patients.<h4>Methods</h4>Thirteen adult patients with advanced PD underwent adeno-associated virus, serotype-2 vector carrying glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor and gadoteridol (surrogate MRI tracer) coinfusion (450 μL/hemisphere) at escalating doses: 9 × 10<sup ...[more]