Friday 7 November 2014

Seizures in Mice Reduced by Human Stem Cell-Derived Neuron Transplants

A new evidence that stem cell transplantation could be a worthwhile strategy to help epileptics who do not respond to anti-seizure drugs has been given by scientists from Belmont, MA-McLean Hospital and Harvard Stem Cell Institute. As reported in emCell Stem Cell/em, the laboratory of McLean Associate Neurobiologist Sangmi Chung, PhD, transplanted seizure-inhibiting, human embryonic stem cell-derived neurons into the brains of mice with a common form of epilepsy. ...

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