http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Few treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD) restore function for extended periods. In a new study published today in the inaugural issue issue of the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, an international group of researchers report that platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) restored function in rodents and shows promise as a clinical candidate drug for treatment of PD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-animal-parkinson-disease-drug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:55:32 EST news226839317 A study published in the current issue of Cell Transplantation has demonstrated for the first time that endothelial cells derived from cryopreserved human umbilical cord blood cells are phenotypically, as well as structurally and functionally, indistinguishable from freshly isolated endothelial cells. The success of the author's work eliminates the necessity of performing cell isolation procedures prior to their use in clinical transplantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cryopreserved-endothelial-progenitor-cells-phenotypically.html Medical research Wed, 11 May 2011 15:13:15 EST news224345565