Deans' stroke musings: Researchers create functional human capillaries from adult stem cells

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.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Researchers create functional human capillaries from adult stem cells

We need this applied to our dead brain areas so when we get neuronal stem cells injected into our brains they will have nourishment.
http://www.stemcellsfreak.com/2013/04/adult-stem-cells-form-human-capillaries.html
One of the biggest problems faced by scientists who try to grow organs in the lab, is forming blood vessel networks that nurish and keep the tissues alive. Today, researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) announced some very promising findings that may help overcome this obstacle. The study also has implications in the treatment of conditions that affect the circulatory system, like diabetes.

Andrew Putnam, chief author of the study, explains why the ability to form functional blood vessels is so important tissue engineering:

"If you don't nourish it with blood by vascularizing it, it's only going to be as big as the head of a pen."

Currently, there are two main approaches that researchers use to grow new capillaries, the smallest blood vessels our body has (5-10 μm in diameter), with their main role being to exchange water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other nutrients and waste chemical substances between blood and surrounding tissues like muscles and organs.
Cross section of a capillary.