News tagged with brain stem cells
Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain tumor treatment, study finds
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study.
Gene vital to brain's stem cells implicated in deadly brain cancer
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that activates brain stem cells to make new neurons - but that may be hijacked later in life to cause ...
Timing is everything: Growth factor keeps brain development on track
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Just like a conductor cueing musicians in an orchestra, Fgf10, a member of the fibroblast growth factor (Ffg) family of morphogens, lets brain stem cells know that the moment to get to work has arrived, ensuring ...
An Inexhaustible Source of Neural Cells
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in deriving so-called brain stem cells from human embryonic stem cells. These can not only be conserved almost indefinitely in culture, but can also serve ...
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Researchers find stem cells from monkey teeth can stimulate growth and generation of brain cells
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Nov 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered dental pulp stem cells can stimulate growth and generation of several types of neural cells. Findings from this study, available ...
Stem cells are good for the brain
Jul 15, 2008 |
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For some years, scientists have been speculating over why stem cells exist in the brain, as brain regeneration is limited. A German team of neuroscientists believe these stem cells help keep the brain healthy and active.
Scientists investigate role of stem cells in adult brain cell production
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Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Georgia State researchers in the university’s Neuroscience Institute and the department of biology are investigating how stem cells create new brain cells in adulthood.
Neural stem cells offer potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Irvine scientists have shown for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a potential treatment for the leading ...
New discovery about the formation of new brain cells
Nov 23, 2009 |
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The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells' maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through ...
Brain tumor treatment may increase number of cancer stem-like cells
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A new study suggests that the standard treatment for a common brain tumor increases the aggressiveness of surviving cancer cells, possibly leaving patients more vulnerable to tumor recurrence. The research, published by Cell ...
Cholesterol necessary for brain development
Oct 02, 2009 |
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A derivative of cholesterol is necessary for the formation of brain cells, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The results, which are published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, can he ...
Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.
Stem cells alleviate tumor treatment side effects
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study.
Mechanism in cells that generate malignant brain tumors may offer target for gene therapy
Oct 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute who first isolated cancer stem cells in adult brain tumors in 2004 have now identified a molecular mechanism that is involved in the development ...
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