Welcome to
The Neural Transplantation Laboratory

We are located in the Dalhousie Medical School building in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The transplantation lab is one of the leading research initiatives in neural transplant research in Canada.

Our laboratory includes office space, an animal behavior room, stereotactic animal surgery, tissue section, immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization, microscopy and data analysis areas. Located on site are all the regular laboratory equipment found in most modern laboratories in addition to equipment for animal video behavior testing, stereotactic frames, fume hoods, vibratome, microtome, surgical and research microscopes.

A fully-equipped tissue culture laboratory is also available within the Neural Transplantation area. There are state-of-the-art computer facilities with IBM compatible computers. These computers are also connected on-line to the central library server and to the University Vax computer.

Current Research Projects:

1. Neural transplantation for Parkinson's disease.

2. Stereological assessments of transplanted human neural precursor cells for spinal cord injury and parkinson's disease.

3. Transplantation of neural precursor cells for traumatic spinal cord injury.

4. The effects of serotonergic cells on the efficacy of neural tansplantation strategies for Parkinson's disease.

5. Optimal timing of transplantation in cell restoration strategies for parkinson's diesease.

6. Neural precursor cell transplantation strategies for Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

7. Strategies to improve transplanted fetal dopaminergic cell survival in cell resoration strategies for Parkinson's disease.

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