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, March 21, 2014

Anatomically Accurate Aorta Cells 3D Printed at Sabancı University in Turkey

Who needs to be prodded in the ass to start working on neurons? We should be able to spray them into our heads right alongside the arteries that are created. Don't we have any grand thinkers in the stroke world?
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/03/20/3d-printing-aorta-cells-turkey/
Everyday we are a step closer and a step further away from the 3D bioprinting of a functional organ made from human tissue. At Sabancı University in Turkey, a research team has pushed us further towards that goal by 3D bioprinting anatomically accurate macro-vascular tissue that could, one day, be used to treat heart disease in cardiac patients and provide the basis for the vasculature of 3D printed organs.
3d printed aorta cellsThe university’s 3D Tissue and Organ Printing Lab, Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) has taken current 3D bioprinting technology to its next logical step. Whereas company’s like Organovo have been able to 3D print cellular arrays made from liver tissue, Sabancı has modeled their print after actual MRI data. The team began by translating an MRI scan of an actual human aorta to a specialized CAD model. Living human fibroblast cells were then cultured and printed with a hydrogel to form the aorta structure.
The hydrogel was incubated for five to seven days until an anatomically accurate section of the blood vessel was formed.
Blood vessels, like the aorta, are made up of fibroblast, endothelial and smooth muscle cells.  So, while the SUNUM researchers were able to culture the cells in fibroblast cells, which serve as the connective material for our tissues, they are continuing to experiment with the endothelium, the thin inner layer of blood cells, and the smooth muscle cells. Ultimately, they hope to construct a more significant representation of the aorta, the largest vessel in our bodies.  Bahattin Koç, a faculty member on the project, explains why they began with the aorta:

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