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Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific Uses And Ethical Concerns, Carol A. Tauer Ph.D.
Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific Uses And Ethical Concerns, Carol A. Tauer Ph.D.
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Human fetal tissue has been used in research for decades, but recent attempts to implant fetal neural tissue as therapy for Parkinson's disease have stimulated discussion of ethical and policy issues. In late 1989 a moratorium on federal support of fetal tissue transplantation research was indefinitely extended, based on the connection between this research and elective abortion. Four abortion-related objections to the use of fetal tissue can be identified: 1. The procedures of abortion and tissue procurement are linked in practice; 2. One who uses fetal tissue is complicit with the abortions which provided the tissue; 3. The prospect of …
Unprovoked Seizures And Myoclonus In Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Marcia L. Morris
Unprovoked Seizures And Myoclonus In Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Marcia L. Morris
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Although anecdotal references commonly presume that seizures eventually occur in patients affected with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), no previous American study has documented the rate of new onset, unprovoked seizures in DAT patients. There are few documented cases of the occurrence of myoclonus in autopsy-proven DAT. In a series of 83 autopsy-proven DAT cases, medical records were scrutinized for the presence of any seizure or myoclonic activity. Final evaluations were made by a neurologist. Of the 83 cases, 8 had experienced one or more unprovoked seizures after the onset of DAT. Based on age-specific incidence rates from a …