Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...ration. Although there may be other "locks" to the regeneration door, Chen and her colleagues believed these two w...e reduced "glial scar" formation. By unlocking the regeneration with the first key, for the first time, they observed robust optic nerve regeneration in postnatal m...News Tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ly, there seem to be plenty of obstacles to neuron regeneration after spinal cord injury. This week, Fouad et al. adopt a multifaceted approach to optimize regeneration in adult rats after spinal cord transection....Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
... their migration and differentiation to aid in the regeneration of specific tissues in desired areas. Recently, the Mikos laboratory has been working on composite materials that support and guide developing tissues through the controlled release of bioactive molecules, and they are investigating nano-structured m...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...trols the growth and division of cells could allow regeneration of the inner ear's hair cells, which convert sound... that cells that have been considered incapable of regeneration like most nerve cells can reproduce under the right conditions, which may have applications to neu...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
...mmediate area affected by their injury where nerve regeneration occurred. "This was a pilot device trial," said Dr. Shapiro, the lead author of the journal article and chief of neurosurgery at Wishard Memorial Hospital. "Some patients did regain sensation and motor function in their lower extremities but not en...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...ans (CSPGs), have long been known to prevent nerve regeneration after injury by recruiting a stew of other protein...e growing. "CSPGs are a critical obstacle to nerve regeneration after injury, and without details about what's really happening, it's impossible to rationally inter...New protein 'stop sign' alters blood vessel growth
...h defects, coronary heart disease, and adult nerve regeneration problems, say the researchers. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkin...Brookhaven Lab and BioSET develop a synthetic peptide that enhances the effect of BMP-2
...gn-targeted synthetic peptides for specific tissue regeneration applications. The Brookhaven/BioSET collaboration continues to yield very promising results aimed at replicating human growth factors, and we look forward to further validating the potential of these peptides to enhance the body's healing capacity, e...New brain cells develop during alcohol abstinence, UNC study shows
...nt of alcoholism during recovery. The discovery of regeneration of neurons in recovery opens up new avenues of therapies aimed at regeneration of brain cells."When animals learn, they make more neurons. When animals exercise, they make more ne...Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...ists have long thought that OECs assist the normal regeneration of these axons and guide them into the brain where...ymosan is an agent that is theorized to aid in the regeneration of neurons by escalating mechanisms responsible for neuronal regrowth. "Just as the inhibition of ne...Mouse study: Signal overload in Alzheimer brains
...m cells that normally feed the constant, life-long regeneration of odor-detecting nerves. Because they are found in a fairly accessible region of the brain and could conceivably be removed from a person's olfactory bulb without causing permanent damage, adult olfactory bulb stem cells are a potential non-embryoni...Olfactory bulb stem cells and Lou Gehrig's disease
...m cells that normally feed the constant, life-long regeneration of odor-detecting nerves. Because they are found in a fairly accessible region of the brain and could conceivably be removed from a person's olfactory bulb without causing permanent damage, adult olfactory bulb stem cells are a potential non-embryoni...Researchers invent way to determine optimal conditions for spinal cord nerve regen in lab animals
...dvance that allows them to quickly determine nerve regeneration rate and what variables in the nerve-growth enviro... shows that the scaffolding not only supports axon regeneration when seeded with cells that stimulate regrowth, but that it can quantify axon growth under different...Early signs that adult bone-marrow stem cells could regenerate brain tissue
...peutic source of readily harvestable cells for the regeneration of nerve cells, with potential application to various neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic central nervous system damage"....Spinal disc repair start-up orthonics receives funding from Viscogliosi Brothers, LLC
...continue development of its spinal disc repair and regeneration technologies, which are based on research from the...s at the cellular level could be used to stimulate regeneration of the damaged portions of the disc, a process that normally occurs very slowly or not at all in ol...When 'switched on' muscle stem cells morph to resemble nerve cells
...p towards neuroregeneration." To date, nerve cell regeneration from nonneural stem cells primarily has been studied using bone marrow cells, but mouse experiments that suggested these stem cells could convert to nerve cells have been controversial. Some investigators suspect that manipulated bone marrow cells ar...Reduced scarring helps nerves grow through spinal injuries
... of rats suppresses key molecules that block nerve regeneration after spinal cord injury, said Baylor College of M... tissue that develops at sites of injury stops the regeneration of connections in the adult central nervous system," said Dr. Stephen Davies, lead author on the stu...Age-related muscle loss linked to protein interplay, says Stanford researcher
...lly want to do is maintain the youthfulness of the regeneration pathway," said Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, associate pr...ger muscle. Although the studies focused on muscle regeneration after injury, Rando said similar problems with the interplay between Delta and Notch may cause the g...Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure
...w remaining islet cells in the diabetic mice or of regeneration of the insulin-secreting islets from another source," says Faustman. "We've found that islet regeneration was occurring and that cells were growing from both the recipient's own cells and from the donor cel......leagues suggest that while hepatic homeostasis and regeneration likely involves multiple complex mechanisms and pathways, their current report indicates that SCF plays a significant role in maintaining and reestablishing the health of the liver....