Came across some amazing research out of the University of Florida School of Medicine that offers hope for treating and perhaps curing brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Traumatic brain injury, and stroke.

Basically, what the researchers did:

1) take a brain cell out of an adult human

2) put it in a dish. Add some growth factors.

3) from 1 nerve cell, millions can arise

4) amongst these millions of newly grown brain cells, there are some that are very close and similar to brain stem cells

5) you can take these, and implant them in mice brains.

6) When you do this, nicely formed brain cells grow out and mature

7) these can be taken out en masse from the mice brain and transplanted back into human brain

because the cells started from the adult human, no long term immunosuppressive therapy is needed.

Although it will be years before the technique is perfected, this new method offers tremendous hope to patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, Traumatic brain injury, as well as strokes.

Tags: Brain-Cell, growth-factors, nerve-cell, Parkinsons, stem-cells, stroke, traumatic-brain-injury

Posted: Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Categories: Alzheimers, Brain, Brain Injury, Dementia, Memory Loss, Smartkit All Posts.