Specialized brain cells survive, function
HOUSTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows specialized neurons
thought to die after directing the connections of other neurons can
survive birth and remain functional.
Michael Friedlander and colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine
and the University of Alabama at Birmingham found about 10 percent of
such specialized neurons remain active in the adult brain.
The scientists said their finding -- which challenges accepted ideas
about the brain's embryonic development -- might lead to new methods
of facilitating the restoration of brain functions lost due to
accident or disease.
"Since those cells are critical elements that guided the wiring of
the brain's cerebral cortex in the first place, maybe we could tap
into that ability later on," said Friedlander, chairman of the
school's department of neuroscience and the study's senior author.
The finding by Friedlander and Dr. Juan Torres-Reveron at Yale
University is reported in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
Specialized brain cells survive, function
HOUSTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows specialized neurons
thought to die after directing the connections of other neurons can
survive birth and remain functional.
Michael Friedlander and colleagues at the Baylor College of Medicine
and the University of Alabama at Birmingham found about 10 percent of
such specialized neurons remain active in the adult brain.
The scientists said their finding -- which challenges accepted ideas
about the brain's embryonic development -- might lead to new methods
of facilitating the restoration of brain functions lost due to
accident or disease.
"Since those cells are critical elements that guided the wiring of
the brain's cerebral cortex in the first place, maybe we could tap
into that ability later on," said Friedlander, chairman of the
school's department of neuroscience and the study's senior author.
The finding by Friedlander and Dr. Juan Torres-Reveron at Yale
University is reported in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Copyright 2007 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
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