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.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Stem Cells Morph Into Blood-Brain Barrier

Its great they can recreate the blood brain barrier but I would think that technology has already passed them by in the form of nanoparticles.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i27/Stem-Cells-Morph-Blood-Brain.html
For the first time, researchers have coaxed human stem cells to transform into crucial components of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a defensive wall that protects the brain from blood-borne invaders such as bacteria (Nat. Biotechnol., DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2247). Mats of the tightly packed cells mimic the BBB in humans, the research team says, so they could be used in the future to screen neurological drug candidates.
Starting with stem cells, scientists have previously grown endothelial cells, which typically line the inside of blood vessels. But researchers have never before generated endothelial cells that behave like those in the BBB, says Eric V. Shusta, one of the team leaders and a chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Like the cells in a human’s BBB, these new petri-dish-derived cells pack together extremely tightly and are studded with specific energy-burning proteins that pump molecules in and out of cells.
To produce the new cells, Shusta says the team first grew stem cells in a culture medium that doesn’t specifically generate any one cell type. That way, he explains, both nerve cells and endothelial cells develop side by side.

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