Sentences with phrase «number of brain stem cells»

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STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

Shah next plans to rationally combine the toxin - secreting stem cells with a number of different therapeutic stem cells developed by his team to further enhance their positive results in mouse models of glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in human adults.

Prior research with cultured tissue had shown that a mix of chemicals could change bone marrow stem cells from mice to those resembling brain cells, but when a team led by neurologist Lorraine Iacovitti of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tried the same brew on human cells, the number altered was modest.

The team found that people have large numbers of neural stem cells and progenitors early in life — an average of 1618 young neurons per square millimeter of brain tissue at birth.

Neuroscientists Jing Wang and Freda Miller, both then at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, showed that when nondiabetic mice are given metformin, their memory improves, thanks to an increase in the neural stem cell population and in the number of these cells that develop into healthy neurons in the hippocampus, the brain's memory center.

During the initial stages of typical brain development, stem cells go through a period in which they divide to make more stem cells, increasing their numbers.

They observed a significant decrease in the number of proliferating stem cells in the brains of HIV / gp120 - mice compared with similar tissue from normal, wild - type mice.

Unfortunately, the number of adult stem cells present in local areas of the body vary greatly in number and most researchers agree that there are simply not enough stem cells «at the ready» within brain tissue to heal itself in the same way the skin does after a cut.