Sentences with phrase «brain stem cell aging»

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Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

«In the future, we hope that we will be able to use neural stem cells for brain repair — for example for diseases such as cognitive aging, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease or major depression,» summarizes Jessberger.

It has long been known that the neural stem cells change as the human brain develops and ages.

«Stem cell therapies hold great promise,» he says, from possible treatments for brain disease to heart disease and age - related disorders.

«This lets us keep age - related signatures in the cells so that we can more easily study the effects of aging on the brain,» says Rusty Gage, a professor in the Salk Institute's Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the paper, published October 8, 2015 in Cell Stem Cell.

The scientists collected skin cells from 19 people, aged from birth to 89, and prompted them to turn into brain cells using both the induced pluripotent stem cell technique and the direct conversion approach.

A group of scientists led by Sebastian Jessberger of the Brain Research Institute showed now that also the stem cells of the adult mouse brain asymmetrically segregate aging factors between the mother and the daughter cBrain Research Institute showed now that also the stem cells of the adult mouse brain asymmetrically segregate aging factors between the mother and the daughter cbrain asymmetrically segregate aging factors between the mother and the daughter cells.

This could be one of the mechanisms responsible for the reduced regeneration capacity in the aged brain as stem cells that retain larger amounts of damaged proteins require longer for the next cell division.

In a study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair say the results of their experiment are an early step in pursuing stem cells for potential repair of the blood - spinal cord barrier, which has been identified as key in the development of ALS.

Because stem cells have the ability to develop into many different cell types in the body, researchers at USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.

«We show for the first time how HIV / AIDS inhibits proliferation of neural stem cells and prevents the formation of new nerve cells in the adult brain,» said Dr. Stuart Lipton, Director of Burnham's Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Reseastem cells and prevents the formation of new nerve cells in the adult brain,» said Dr. Stuart Lipton, Director of Burnham's Del E. Webb Center for Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell ReseaStem Cell Research.

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Panelists will discuss how scientists are investigating what happens to these cells as we age, how this knowledge is being used to guide new strategies to boost brain health and to develop therapies utilizing stem cells to treat diseases of the brain.

Summary of a panel discussion on stem cells and the aging brain involving a world - leading grouping of international stem cell scientists.

In the healthy brain, stem cell - like glial progenitors can divide, migrate to an injured site, and become mature oligodendrocytes after myelin loss, but, unfortunately, the efficiency of remyelination declines with age.

The research finds that changes to one of these genes, called Dbx2, could prematurely age brain stem cells, causing them to grow more slowly.

Boldrini and colleagues think that the deterioration of the brain in old age could be attributed to this smaller pool or neural stem cells, reduced connectivity among cells within the hippocampus and decline in blood vessels.

The work, published in Cell Stem Cell on September 14, 2017, offers insight into why an imbalance between these precursor cells and neurons might contribute to mental illness or age - related brain disease.

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

Collectively, these data demonstrate that youthful circulating factors can restore the self - renewal and differentiation potential of aged SVZ stem cells, and this effect can persist for some time after isolation from the mouse brain.

Using similar techniques, they were able to show that brain aging is due reduce neurogenesis of brain stem cells and that a circulating factor called CCL11 / Endotaxin increase with aging.