What Once Was Lost
From: Discover Magazine - 10/2017 - page 33

How neural stem cells repair damage from strokes, spinal injuries and aging.

In the past decade, a handful of discoveries have unleashed a flood of
research into ways neural stem cells can be used for treating degenerative
brain disorders and for brain repair. Scores of laboratories at universities
and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which
transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of
electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve
fibers with a fatty coating). Neural stem cells can help mend brain tissue
damaged by strokes and spinal cord injuries and keep neurons alive in
degenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's,
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Recently, tests in humans using stem cells to
treat a range of these neurological disorders have been successful.

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