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> >Re: First Stem Cell Recipient... I must apologize for my overreaction to this topic. I went back to the links and reread them very carefully and have since concluded the following: 1] My subject line should have read ... "first New Zealand stem cell recipient"... 2] My conclusion that MND [Muscular Neurone Disease] was akin to Parkinson's disease was also incorrect. MND is the generic term used primarily in Europe for ALS[Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gerhig's Disease]. Assuming that you accepted my apology let me share their family web site address which I also discovered during my wanderings: it is <www.freewebs.com/chinawilly> Willie had the stem cell transplant on Monday and showed signs of a miraculous recovery by end of the day. I certainly hope this apparent improvement wasn't due to the "microlesion" effect. After my DBS procedure , but before the neurostimulators were installed, I experienced a short-lived, several days, but nevertheless dramatic improvement in my symptoms. My neurosurgeon said that this is a common response and is due to the invasive nature of the electrode installation. Apparently the installation process stimulates the Sub Thalamic Nucleus [STN], the location of my electrode installation, which tweak the remaining substantia nigra into pumping out some extra dopamine. Additionally, I hope that the Chinese surgeon, Dr. Huang, isn't a charlatan; he performs several one hour procedures a day, is currently booked well into the foreseeable future and is charging $40,000- each and has a virtually unlimited supply of fetuses what with the Chinese one child rule. I also hope that he is certain cell growth will be self-limiting, i.e., that the transplanted cells won't reproduce without limit like a cancer. Plus a patient died the same day he performed Willie's transplant. I pray that Dr. Huang's procedure is valid, for Willie, and for all PWP. Peace... David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn