Abstracts for the 11th International Neural Transplantation and Repair Meeting Held in Conjunction With the 18th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair

摘要

In June of 1984, a seminal scientific meeting entitled "Transplantation in the Mammalian CNS" was held in Sweden. This meeting brought together the world leaders in the field of neurological repair to address the state of knowledge regarding the biology underlying the response of the CNS to neural transplantation. This meeting also marked the first forum assessing the therapeutic prospects for grafted cells to restore neurological function. This meeting marked the advent of a new era for research into CNS repair and, following subsequent meetings in Rochester (USA) and Cambridge (UK), these triannual scientific congresses were established as the International Neural Transplantation and Repair (INTR) Meetings. At the time of the 1984 meeting, transplanted cells were somewhat mysterious "spare parts" that integrated into the circuitry with various degrees of success.