May 31 2008, 12:48 AM EST
New stem cell therapy may aid the repair of damaged brains
EUREKALERT
Contact: Sean Wagner
swagner@wiley.
781-388-8550
Wiley-Blackwell
According to some experts, newly born neuronal stem cells in the
adult brain may provide a therapy for brain injury. But if these stem
cells are to be utilized in this way, the process by which they are
created, neurogenesis, must be regulated.
A new study, led by Laurence Katz, Co-Director of the Carolina
Resuscitation Research Group at the University of the North Carolina
School of Medicine, suggests a way in which this might be achieved.
According to the research, neurogenesis can be regulated through
induced hypothermia. In rat subjects, a mild decrease in body
temperature was found to substantially decrease the proliferation of
newly-born neurons, a discovery that marks a major step forward for
the development of neuronal stem cell-based brain therapies.
Since the 1930s, brain damage from stroke, head injury, near drowning
and cardiac arrest was considered to be permanent because of a lack
of repair mechanisms like other parts of the body. However, discovery
of neuronal stem cells in the adult brain challenges that belief.
Many questions remain before we adequately understand how to control
these cells to repair a damaged brain, says Katz. However, the
findings represent an important step in demonstrating that these
cells can be controlled by simple external forces like hypothermia.
The presentation entitled Hypothermia Decreases Neurogenesis will be
given by Laurence Katz from The University of North Carolina School
of Medicine. This paper will be presented at the 2008 SAEM Annual
Meeting, Washington,D.
forum beginning at 10 a.m. in Virginia Rooms A&B of the Marriott
Wardman Park Hotel. Abstracts are published in Vol. 15, No. 5,
Supplement 1, May 2008 of Academic Emergency Medicine, the official
journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Press Room 2008 SAEM Annual Meeting, May 29-June 1, 2008,Washington,
D.C.
Location Park Tower Suite #8229
Chicago, IL
Tel: (202) 328-2000 (ask for the SAEM Registration Desk)
Fax: (202) 234-0015 (mark for attn of [Maryanne Greketis or Sandra
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Contact Sean Wagner (swagner@wiley.
prior to or during the SAEM Annual Meeting. Dr. Katz can be reached
directly at lkatz@med.unc.
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StemCells subscribers may also be interested in these sites:
Children's Neurobiological Solutions
http://www.CNSfoundation.org/
Cord Blood Registry
http://www.CordBlood.com/at.cgi?a=150123
The CNS Healing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNS_Healing
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