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Articles / Press Releases
Healing Potential Discovered In Everyday Human Brain Cells (August
16, 2006) University of Florida researchers have shown ordinary
human brain cells may share the prized qualities of self-renewal and
adaptability normally associated with stem cells. Writing online in
Development, scientists from UF's McKnight Brain Institute describe how they
used mature human brain cells taken from epilepsy patients to generate new
brain tissue in mice.
Brain-computer Link Lets Paralyzed Patients Convert Thoughts Into Actions
(July 13, 2006) A multi-institutional team of researchers has
found that people with long-standing, severe paralysis can generate signals
in the area of the brain responsible for voluntary movement and these
signals can be detected, recorded, routed out of the brain to a computer and
converted into actions--enabling a paralyzed patient to perform basic tasks.
Uncovering How Bone Marrow Stomal Cells Can Potentially Regenerate Brain
Tissue (March 16, 2006) - Japanese researchers have found a piece
of the “missing link” about how bone marrow stromal cells restore lost
neurologic function when transplanted into animals exhibiting central
nervous system disorders, according to a study in the March issue of the
Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Researchers To Study Effectiveness Of Stem Cell Transplant In Human Brain
(March 11, 2006) Researchers in Doernbecher Children's Hospital at
Oregon Health & Science University will begin a Phase I clinical trial using
stem cells in infants and children with a rare neurodegenerative disorder
that affects infants and children.
Rochester Researchers Delve Into Concussions; Better Tests Needed For Fuller
View Of Head Injuries, Study Says (March 1, 2006) Concussion
patients with a normal head CT scan may believe they are free of brain
injury, but CT scans often miss damage at the molecular level, warns a
University of Rochester Medical Center study.
Why
The Brain Has 'Gray Matter' (January 12, 2006) — By borrowing
mathematical tools from theoretical physics, scientists have recently
developed a theory that explains why the brain tissue of humans and other
vertebrates is segregated into the familiar "gray matter" and "white
matter." >
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Penn
Study Finds Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments Mobilize Stem Cells (December
28, 2005) — According to a study to be published in the American Journal of
Physiology-Heart and Circulation Physiology, a typical course of hyperbaric
oxygen treatments increases by eight-fold the number of stem cells
circulating in a patient's body. Stem cells, also called progenitor cells
are crucial to injury repair. The study currently appears on-line and is
scheduled for publication in the April 2006 edition of the American Journal.
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MIT
Researcher Finds Neuron Growth In Adult Brain (December 27, 2005) —
Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don't grow, a
researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the
Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural
remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains. This finding
means that it may one day be possible to grow new cells to replace ones
damaged by disease or spinal cord injury. >
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OHSU
Discovery Sheds Light Into How Stem Cells Become Brain Cells (December
15, 2005) — Researchers discovered one key gene that appears to control how
stem cells become various kinds of brain cells. The scientists wanted to
determine if the process can be controlled and used as a possible therapy.
What amazed them is a single gene may be responsible for this important task
The finding has significant implications for the study of Parkinson's
disease, brain and spinal cord injury, and other conditions or diseases. >
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Robotic Treadmill Training Helps Retrain Brain, Improves Walking
(November 30, 2005) — People who have suffered partial paralysis from
spinal-cord injury show increased activity in the part of the brain
responsible for muscle movement and motor learning after 12 weeks of
training on a robotic treadmill, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical
Center have found. >
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Stroke
Treatment A Step Closer After Promising Clinical Trial (October 12,
2005) — A potential new treatment for stroke has taken a major step forward
following promising results from the first clinical trial. Researchers at
The University of Manchester have shown in laboratory studies that a
naturally occurring protein called IL-1ra protects brain cells from injury
and death. >
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Neural Stem Cells Are Long-lived (October 6, 2005) — New studies in mice
have shown that immature stem cells that proliferate to form brain tissues
can function for at least a year -- most of the life span of a mouse -- and
give rise to multiple types of neural cells, not just neurons. The discovery
may bode well for the use of these neural stem cells to regenerate brain
tissue lost to injury or disease. >
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