Deans' stroke musings: Scientists convert human skin cells directly into brain 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.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Scientists convert human skin cells directly into brain cells

So whom is going to take on the challenge of testing this in humans? ASA? NSA? WSO? None of these will because all they are is press release organizations. So if you have a spare 10 million or so you can hire your own researchers to do this. That is the only way this will get done in the next 30 years.
Or maybe you'd rather support these other neuron creation ideas;
So many places to get stem cells from;

1. brain biopsies

2. Blood

3. Bone marrow stem cells

4. Skin cells

5. Re-programme other cells to become nerve cells, directly in the brain.

6. UK scientists use 3D printer to print human stem cells

7. Reprogramming Adult Schwann Cells to Stem Cell-like Cells by Leprosy Bacilli Promotes Dissemination of Infection

8. Fat cells

9. Urine

10. Bone marrow
11. Placenta
12. Umbilical cord blood
13. hair follicles
14. menstrual blood
15. liver cells
16. Dental pulp

17. Stem Cell Scaffolding

18. Converting fibroblasts into functional neurons

19. Cells grown from the lining of their nose.

Scientists convert human skin cells directly into brain cells
The study is unusual because, unlike many cell conversion techniques, the cells did not return to a stem cell stage first - they converted directly into brain cells - thus avoiding the risk of producing many other types of cells.
And the study is unique, because the team managed to reprogram the skin cells to become a particular type of brain cell instead of a range of brain cells.
Writing in the journal Neuron, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL), MO, report how they used a particular combination of microRNAs and transcription factors to reprogram the skin cells into a particular type of brain cell known as medium spiny neurons.

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