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 6, 2012

Stem cell biology: Towards the reality of cell therapeutics

At least California has enough sense to see the possibilities of using stem cells therapeutically and as a job creator.
http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v14/n4/full/ncb2469.html

Although the road to cell therapeutics is rife with uncertainties — scientific, clinical and economic — its success could transform medicine. Five years into its mission, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is laying a foundation for this new form of medical treatment.

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was established in 2004 by Proposition 71 (http://www.cirm.ca.gov/pdf/prop71.pdf), which mandated support of stem cell research through state funding. Funding began in 2006 and by the end of 2011, CIRM had awarded $1.4 billion in 450 grants to 59 institutions and companies in California. To date, CIRM has built 12 new institutes at a total cost of more than $1 billion, attracted many new scientists to the field, and brought 130 principle investigators to California. CIRM funding has supported scientific advances reported in over 1,000 papers.
CIRM's basic research portfolio, with its focus on human development and disease, has been critical for unravelling gene networks underlying differentiation of human cell lineages, with the ultimate aim of manufacturing cells, tissues and organs for transplantation. Furthermore, programmes for studying stem cell renewal and endogenous regeneration are also moving along productively. Insights to human disease mechanisms are being illuminated by patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), including lines created to understand cellular pathologies of previously experimentally inaccessible neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. CIRM will be funding an iPSC bank to make these resources available to the scientific community. Other promising avenues of research include understanding the role of tumour suppressors in regeneration, the role of small RNAs in directing cell fate, and developing cell therapies to control inflammation during disease progression.
rest at link, stroke is referred to once.

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