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At 05:50 PM 11/3/00 -0600, you wrote:

Jeanette,

I believe that is the research done by Jeffery Kordower at Rush in Chicago.

Charlie


>List family,
>         My husband was watching the early evening news from Kansas City
> MO and
>yelled for me to come watch a segment on Parkinson's.  The segment showed
>rheus(sp?) monkeys who had Parkinson's, treated with an injection of gene
>therapy, the PD symptoms left.
>         MRI's were shown of the monkey brain that showed little dopamine
> then the
>MRI showing an excess even of dopamine.  I didn't catch the research
>scientist's name or location.  The researcher said it would probably be a
>year before testing in humans would be probable.
>         This story was on KCTV-5, CBS, with Anne Peterson and Larry Moore,
>anchors.  I'll see if it is on their internet site.
>
>Jeanette Fuhr

Charles T. Meyer, M.D.
Middleton, WI
PD DX  12 years (at age 44)
Age 56