Summary | Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

Summary

Study director: Bruce Miller, MD
Sponsor: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Recruiting?: Yes
Official study title: Establishment of Frontotemporal Dementia Patient Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell Lines
Conditions studied: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other closely related neurological disorders including corticobasal degeneration (CBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with dementia
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to study the disease-causing mechanisms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and create models to study neurological diseases for which there are not adequate human in vitro or animal models.

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