Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Save that Umbillical cord

Scientists take cells from human umbillical cords, injecct them into mice brains, and voila, mice brains recover from disease.

But it is not the umbillical cord cells that grow, but due to the stem cells in the brain being turned back on so they can regenerate....

“We think that UCBCs may have a similar potential to reduce inflammation and to restore some of the lost capacity of stem/progenitor cells to proliferate and differentiate into neurons,” said Dr. Bickford.

The study found that the number of proliferative cells increased within 24 hours following the UCBC injections into the aged laboratory rats and that the increased cell proliferation continued for at least 15 days following a single treatment.

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