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Paula, I would like the references for each of the claims you have made.. I think you have confused the studies. I participated in a study that used fetal cells rather than stem cells and some of the subjects developed a run away dyskinesia possibly because of poor placement. As far as I know the cells did not develop into other ectodermal tissue . Regarding Bush being anti science, his support of teaching " intelligent design" in science classes is akin to teaching that some people believe that the sun goes around the earth in astronomy class. He appoints cronies who agree with him in spite of their poor qualifications and ignores reports that he disagrees with like global warming. Yes there is money in grants for certain lines of research but other less popular (AND LESS LIKELY TO develop into positive knowledge) gets less money but science goes on and it works . Likely it will be found that the dopamine from the substantia nigra is not the only neurotransmitter which is operative in PD. But this is no reason to not study the sunbstantia nigra and dopamine.. Unfortunately PD is incurable at the current time.. in spite of claims to the contrary stem cell research both types (adult and embryonic), have potential to develop into such a cure. and the ban on funding ESCR while it is admittedly a long shot , gives me and others hope that we will survive long enough to take advantage of it.. Charles T. Meyer, MD Paula Nixon wrote: >The funny thing about stem cell treatment, the placebo patients in one experiment that had the surgeries, but nothing was implanted, had very good results. Their PD symptoms were greatly reduced for over a year! However, many of the people that received the implants had ghastly side effects: violent movements like dyskinesia, the implanted cell developed into teeth and optic tissue. The Parkinson's researchers feel that stem-cells will not yield good results. If a body is determined to induce dormancy in its own dopamine cells, it would eventually extinguish it in other introduced cells unless those cells are growing out of control, causing violent symptoms of dopamine excess. The younger researchers acknowledge many PD symptoms are not dopamine related. > >As to Bush accepting anti-science, the scientific community is extremely tight. If anyone, even one of their own comes up with a differing theory, they are not listened to. The grants and money are where it is. In this case it is that dopamine is the answer, whether it is or not. They will let the PDs live or die by their decision. So anyone that goes against their plan, is anti-science, even if the anti-science is very scientific, done by PhDs, Mds and whatever. >Paula > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn