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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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Overview

Curt R. Freed is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Neuroscience, with subfields including Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience. The main topics addressed in their work include Neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research.

Their contributions to the scientific literature include the paper titled Persistent dyskinesias in patients with fetal tissue transplantation for Parkinson disease, published in 2021 by the journal npj Parkinson s Disease. This publication has been cited 23 times.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Curt R. Freed include:

  • Paul Greene
  • Stanley Fahn
  • David Eidelberg
  • Kimberly B. Bjugstad
  • Robert E. Breeze

Their research has been published in the venue:

  • npj Parkinson s Disease

Curt R. Freed holds membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Transplantation of embryonic dopamine neurons for severe Parkinson's disease.

    Curt R. Freed;Paul E. Greene;Robert E. Breeze;Wei-Yann Tsai

  • Survival of implanted fetal dopamine cells and neurologic improvement 12 to 46 months after transplantation for Parkinson's disease.

    Freed Cr;Breeze Re;Rosenberg Nl;Schneck Sa

  • Adenoviral gene delivery can reprogram human fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells.

    Wenbo Zhou;Curt R. Freed

  • DJ-1 Up-regulates Glutathione Synthesis during Oxidative Stress and Inhibits A53T α-Synuclein Toxicity

    Wenbo Zhou;Curt R. Freed

  • Neural transplantation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

    Anders Björklund;Stephen S.B. Dunnett;Patrik Brundin;Jon A.J. Stoessl

  • Effects of perceived treatment on quality of life and medical outcomes in a double-blind placebo surgery trial.

    Cynthia McRae;Eva Cherin;T. Gayle Yamazaki;Gretchen Diem

  • Growth factors improve immediate survival of embryonic dopamine neurons after transplantation into rats

    W.Michael Zawada;Devon J Zastrow;Edward D Clarkson;Frank S Adams

  • Placebo response in Parkinson's disease: Comparisons among 11 trials covering medical and surgical interventions

    Christopher G. Goetz;Joanne Wuu;Joanne Wuu;Michael P. McDermott;Charles H. Adler

  • Segregation of Human Neural Stem Cells in the Developing Primate Forebrain

    Václav Ourednik;Jitka Ourednik;Jonathan D. Flax;W. Michael Zawada

  • Transplantation of human fetal dopamine cells for Parkinson's disease. Results at 1 year.

    Curt R. Freed;Robert E. Breeze;Neil L. Rosenberg;Stuart A. Schneck

  • Dyskinesia after fetal cell transplantation for parkinsonism: a PET study.

    Yilong Ma;Yilong Ma;Andrew Feigin;Andrew Feigin;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan;Masafumi Fukuda

  • Overexpression of human α-synuclein causes dopamine neuron death in rat primary culture and immortalized mesencephalon-derived cells

    Wenbo Zhou;Marc S. Hurlbert;Jerome Schaack;Kedar N. Prasad

  • Mice transgenic for an expanded CAG repeat in the Huntington's disease gene develop diabetes.

    M. S. Hurlbert;Wenbo Zhou;C. Wasmeier;F. G. Kaddis

  • Dopamine transporter immunoreactivity in rat brain

    Curt Freed;Randall Revay;Randall Revay;Roxanne A. Vaughan;Evelyn Kriek

  • Regional brain dopamine metabolism: a marker for the speed, direction, and posture of moving animals.

    Curt R. Freed;Bryan K. Yamamoto

  • Phenylbutyrate Up-regulates the DJ-1 Protein and Protects Neurons in Cell Culture and in Animal Models of Parkinson Disease *

    Wenbo Zhou;Kathryn Bercury;Jessica Cummiskey;Nancy Luong

  • Dopamine Cell Implantation in Parkinson's Disease: Long-Term Clinical and 18F-FDOPA PET Outcomes

    Yilong Ma;Chengke Tang;Thomas Chaly;Paul Greene

  • Overexpression of human α-synuclein causes dopamine neuron death in primary human mesencephalic culture

    Wenbo Zhou;Jerome Schaack;W.Michael Zawada;Curt R. Freed

  • Nerve growth factor-dependence of herpes simplex virus latency in peripheral sympathetic and sensory neurons in vitro

    CL Wilcox;RL Smith;CR Freed;EM Johnson

  • Generation of tyrosine hydroxylase positive neurons from human embryonic stem cells after coculture with cellular substrates and exposure to GDNF.

    Kimberley A. Buytaert‐Hoefen;Enrique Alvarez;Curt R. Freed

  • GDNF improves survival and reduces apoptosis in human embryonic dopaminergic neurons in vitro.

    Clarkson Ed;Zawada Wm;Freed Cr

Frequent Co-Authors

David Eidelberg
David Eidelberg Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Jerry B. Richards
Jerry B. Richards University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Yilong Ma
Yilong Ma Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Antonia Vernadakis
Antonia Vernadakis University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Philip A. Starr
Philip A. Starr University of California, San Francisco
Joanne Wuu
Joanne Wuu University of Miami
Scott T. Grafton
Scott T. Grafton University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel W. Russell
Daniel W. Russell Iowa State University
Richard L. Sidman
Richard L. Sidman Harvard University
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania

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