Search This Blog/Linked Pages

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Traumatic brain injury may be treated by transplanted human stem cells (in the Toronto Star)

"Using rats as well as an apparatus that simulates brain damage on human neurons, [Dr. Ping] Wu and her team of researchers identified a key molecular mechanisms through which implanted human neural stem cells aid recovery from traumatic axonal injury – which involves damage to the axons and dendrites which are the pathways for nerve communication in the brain."

Dr. Wu is a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Full article: Traumatic brain injury may be treated by transplanted human stem cells.