Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Grafts of embryonic neurons restore damaged motor pathways

This is only tested in mice and I wonder if it would do the same in the sensory cortex or in my case the pre-motor cortex. From Sept. 2007 so what is the followup?
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/09/grafts_of_embryonic_neurons_re.php#more
French researchers have demonstrated for the first time that embryonic cells grafted into the brains of mice with damaged motor cortices can re-establish damaged connections precisely, so that disrupted neural circuitry is reconstructed.
The findings raise the possibility that cell-based therapies could be used to repair the damage that occurs with brain injury, or as a result of various neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers have experimented with cell transplantation since the early 1970s, particularly to try and develop therapies for Parkinson's Disease. But they have always faced the difficulty of distinguishing between grafted cells and the host tissue.
Gaillard, et al used donor tissue came from transgenic mice that express green fluorescent protein in all neurons. The transplanted cells, and the projections they formed, could, therefore easily be characterized in the host animals.
The French team anaesthetized adult mice, and removed their motor cortices using a suction syringe. Immediately afterwards, motor cortical tissue from donor embryos was transplanted into the lesioned site. Care was taken to maintain the original orientation of the donor tissue during the transplantation.

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